Just got this email below. Of course, in typical WP fashion, the link doesn’t work. Had to find it on my own and when I clicked on it, all the early issues were gone. Did anybody know how much they were selling them for? They go for an arm and a leg.
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Final sale on all back issues

We're moving out of our current warehouse and we're dumping all mags we can't sell off. Most recent issues are going for $1.99.

We've also found a small number of early issues, including Issue 3 (Weldon Irvine), 4 (Tracy 168), 5 (Style Wars), 12 (Phase 2), 13 (The Meters), and 14 (Axelrod).

Lank: https://store.waxpoetics.com/collections/back-issues

I think I'll pass on the sale, wait for someone who has the old ones for sale cheap or want to throw them out, I have the first ten issues anyway.

https://tinyurl.com/y4ba6hog

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"We in here talking about later career Prince records
& your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine
trying to collect props for a couple of sociopathic degenerates" - s.blak

I didn't see this post when it first went live but I had the same problem when this email dropped in January.

Not long after the fire sale, I filled the small holes in my collection and I now have every issue except No. 5, though I admit my copy of No. 1 is the doggone reissue and not the original printing. I wish I didn't care about that kind of stuff, but I do. LOL.

I will get No. 5 from eBay, eventually. It's not that rare that it's cost prohibitive to purchase. I've seen it for $15-35.

I filled most of the holes in my collection thanks to Etsy. Some seller was offering a few of the single digit issues as a bundled "lot." I got a great deal. WP dropped in 2001 when I was a teen but I didn't really get into until maybe 2003?

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Anywho, WP just announced the reissue of No. 17 (Dilla issue) today via the email newsletter. Here ya go:
https://store.waxpoetics.com/products/wax-poetics-issue-17-paperback-reissue

It's $30 bucks.

As I just shared in another WP-related post, two original printings of the Dilla issue recently sold for $42 and $51, respectively, plus S&H, based on my eBay search of recently sold listings. (You can filter results for sold items).

Now, two sellers, as of today, May 22, 2019, have original printings listed for $49.99 and $165.99.

In recent years, I've seen the Dilla issue listed for under $30...

In addition to the Dilla issue, WP is selling yet another version of the No. 1 reissue. It's available as a hardcover copy now, plus they have "completely redesigned" the reissue.

From the email: "We've added many more photos and record covers in this 142-page edition!"


Sigh.

This is nice, but I just want a new issue with new content, not reissues of already-published content. I know the publishing industry is hard but gotdamn!

Music journalism makes me sad sometimes.

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"Music is not to be possessed; it's to be shared.” - James Mtume

"Just stay loose, keep it raw, and bang ya drums out sometimes." - Madlib

Fuck you Amanda. She never admitted it either.

I got 2 replacements though.

I copped an incomplete collection of WP issues on Ebay, I believe I have #1 but I can't say if it's the original or not.

Random aside, I met the creative director of WP at his gallery in San Francisco this year. Cool cat. Wouldn't be surprised if he was lurking around here lol

Damn her!

B+?

He’s going to be in Detroit tomorrow for this event centered on the hip-hop photography book, Contact High.

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"Music is not to be possessed; it's to be shared.” - James Mtume

"Just stay loose, keep it raw, and bang ya drums out sometimes." - Madlib

WP also added some deadstock back issues (66, 64, 57, 55, 51, 44, and 25) to the web store—with only a few copies remaining of most.

Those issues aren't that rare, though...

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"Music is not to be possessed; it's to be shared.” - James Mtume

"Just stay loose, keep it raw, and bang ya drums out sometimes." - Madlib

i'd LOVE to get Prince cover story from 2012 with the Madhouse archives but I'm not buying it from them directly.