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Post by rockingrev on Jan 23, 2024 11:59:56 GMT
Lapsed Fan Club member here - but this weekend I was sorting some stuff in the loft and came across my old Fan Club mags. A nice bit of nostalgia. I do enjoy something physically printed to read and thought about re-joining, but then looked at the Fan Club website and saw that it's £26.50 - for TWO magazines a year!!!! If you take out post, it's about £12 an issue. I could buy a decent paperback book for that price. Does anyone still belong to the Fan Club? What else do you get for that money, surely not just two mags?!
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Post by pg on Jan 23, 2024 12:22:40 GMT
I too am lapsed (I think she'd just gone down to 3 issues a year at that point), so cant answer the question, but I suspect you get a tenner off a convention ticket or something, plus there's a members-only area of the website (no idea what's back there)
Your underlying point is valid though - how she keeps it going, with a website, huge amounts of correspondence, and organising the convention and makes a living at it is a miracle. I remain surprised that the re-emergence of Queen as a touring entity from ~2008 onwards hasn't instigated a reversal of the previous decision to defund it. I'm sure she could be re-integrated with QPL, she probably has some good merch ideas too.
I suspect she'll retire within 5 years, and that will then be that.
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Post by daga on Jan 23, 2024 17:55:02 GMT
I still pay, and international shipping is even more expensive. There are no more competitions and discounts.
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Post by Brian's Wig on Jan 23, 2024 20:30:26 GMT
Frankly, unless you're a convention goer, it's not worth the money.
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Post by BrƎИsꓘi on Jan 23, 2024 21:49:39 GMT
Frankly, unless you're a convention goer, it's not worth the money. and in this day and age completely anachronistic
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Post by merplot on Jan 24, 2024 2:37:37 GMT
Frankly, unless you're a convention goer, it's not worth the money. and in this day and age completely anachronistic I'm not a fanclub member but kind of tangentially-related, I'm the owner of a few of those old Japanese teenager-run fanclub magazines from 1974-1975 before there was an official international fanclub, and it's fascinating to read about their (the kids') exploits and see ads in the back for penpals and such. The kids got an interview with Brian just by talking to and befriending some of the road crew and a Japanese music exec. Good old-fashioned legwork. It's easy to forget how different life was before the Internet-- now you dont need zines to stay involved as a fan.
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