Thanks for this. I'm in for a year. I bought a few issues on the newsstand a couple years ago when they were including DVDs, but I kind of gave up on them after a while.

Here's a link to their site. Here's a link to a fatwallet thread about the offer.

Honestly, Paste is not worth killing the trees necessary to print it. A mag with minimal content to support the overblown graphic design and a CD full of boring music - why bother? They'd need some sort of carbon offset (that actually means something) to get me onboard with this.

I'm not a Paste reader... when did it launch?

Man, it CAN'T be that bad. Ry is on the cover.

I even like the interview.

So far, 2007 has been good for Adams. After years of notorious alcoholism and excessive cocaine and heroin use, he’s been settling comfortably into sobriety. He and the Cardinals have discovered an amazing chemistry, and Easy Tiger has been Adams’ fastest selling album to date, its first single, “Two” (with Sheryl Crow on harmony vocals), getting regular play on Adult Alternative radio stations nationwide. Adams and the Cardinals also just released a live-in-the studio EP, Follow The Lights, featuring two brand-new tracks (the title track and “My Love For You Is Real,”) as well as re-imagined versions of several previously released tunes.

Then there’s the five-disc box set that’s currently in the works. Scheduled for release in early ’08, the still unnamed collection will offer myriad unreleased gems spanning Adams’ tenure at Lost Highway (from 2001’s Gold to the present). Though no official decision has been made on a tracklist, Adams says the box will likely include material from five “lost” albums he recorded between his official releases: The Suicide Handbook, Pinkhearts, 48 Hours, Darkbreaker and Black Hole.

I want them to pay me to subscribe. Is that an option?

Previous discussion of Paste. It's a good idea, but not much of a magazine.

I've never been able to absorb a single issue. It's like a silly compendium of lookey-loo graphic design and almost criminally juvenile writing.

The CD's they include are the only reason to be around that rag.

Might I suggest a Bunny-led resurgence for No Depression or Sing Out! magazines?

p.s If'n you like the alt-country goodness, supporting Sing Out! is a marvelous way to hear music you'd never come across in your usual indie mag and you can save the folkways of this great land of ours to boot!