Before doomscrolling and same-day shipping, there was a simpler thrill in life: waiting on the next issue of your favorite magazine. Think about it…<\/p>\n
You’d hear the mail truck pull up and sprint outside, praying that today would be the day a new edition finally arrived. And, then BOOM! There it was. Glossy, untouched pages. Weird ads. Fold out posters you could hang with the others on your wall. Basically, enough chaso to shape your personality forever. It was beautiful.<\/p>\n
We asked RockShow listeners in Lubbock what magazine they simply could NOT wait to get their hands on each month, and the answers say a whole lot about the people we used to be.<\/p>\n
Photo by Sergio Atilio Duran<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a>The Music Kids (aka the cool crowd)<\/p>\n If you fit into this crowd, you waited on the edge of your seat for these:<\/p>\n Alternative PressHit ParaderSpinCircus MagazineMojoGuitar World\/ Guitar PlayerThe Skate & Counterculture Crowd<\/p>\n These magazines didn’t just entertain you; they raised you.<\/p>\n Transword SkateboardingThrasherCCS Skate MagazineJuxatpozThe Nerds (said with love, of course)<\/p>\n A few of you out there were building those brains while the rest of us made bad decisions.<\/p>\n Nintendo PowerScientific American MindZoobooksWizard\/ ToyFareGameStop MagazineThe Throwback Classic<\/p>\n These were basically childhood in magazine form.<\/p>\n MAD MagazineHighlightsSeventeenBOPThe \u201cI Had Range\u201d Crowd<\/p>\n Some of y’all had major taste.<\/p>\n GQSports IllustratedWax PoeticsEmergeRachael Ray Magazine<\/p>\n Whether you were waiting on skate culture, music news, comics, or just plain silly stuff, there was something special about that anticipation. It wasn’t JUST a magazine. It was totally your thing, and honestly, I kinda miss it…<\/p>\n Keep scrolling for more Lubbock-based fun in the galleries below…<\/p>\n 5 Fun and Free Rainy-Day Activities To Occupy Your Cranky Kiddos<\/p>\n Make the most of rainy days with a few of these fun ideas.<\/p>\n Gallery Credit: Chrissy<\/p>\n We Asked Lubbock: What\u2019s a Lie You Told as a Kid That You Actually Got Away With?<\/p>\n Some of you are pretty naughty!<\/p>\n Gallery Credit: Chrissy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before doomscrolling and same-day shipping, there was a simpler thrill in life: waiting on the next issue of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169,223],"class_list":["post-247587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}