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Nov 30, 2016 at 4:00 am
These august publications survived the author’s tragic purge.
Megan Mitchell
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You had other choices beyond donating them to UW (who likely wouldn't have wanted them) and listing them one by one on eBay.
You could have spent two minutes putting a "Free - must take all" posting on Craigslist. You could have sat them outside. You could have easily donated them to a a wide variety of places.
Several years ago at Short Run Peter Bagge had a "garage sale" at his table where he sold a lot of old comics and magazines he no longer wanted. I ended up buying a bunch of issues of Spy. There are people that would have wanted your Creems and Forced Exposure and other mags.
Oh well.
I've been through the exact same thing, and currently have boxes of magazines in my parents attic that are likely destroyed from the heat, but I can't bring myself to part with 'em. There's something specifically about reading old issues of Spin, Fizz, Motorbooty, etc. that makes me still feel connected to the pre-blog universe.
Magazines used to feel so important...and glossy pictures from magazines always seemed like they could be useful for some other projects that never seemed to actually be undertaken.
There are definitely times where I think "Oh, if I only still had that particular issue of The Face or Premiere or DJ or Mixmag or Raygun or Uncut or Q or Empire or The Rocket or Interview or Brill's Content or Wired or Mojo..." etc.
...but there's never a "...I'd do this specific thing with them"...
Recycling bins should be able to take all the regret when they take all the content we discard.