Pass The Buck
My favorite friend came back from a business trip with a mad stack of expensive, imported men’s mags for me. My favorite was the British-based BUCK.
I find the majority of higher-priced men’s mags rather irrelevant to my life. Waifs with chin-length bangs, shirtless on sand-dunes, slinking around in seven-hundred-dollar cigarette jeans just does not dial anywhere near my frequencies.
BUCK chucks away with all that junk and instead offers pages upon pages of street-style standouts, low-cost covetables, sartorial showcases of pseudo-celebs, and even retro-tinged recipes.
If I still lived across the pond I’d be certainly swapping pounds for BUCKS month after month.
August 25th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Unfortunately BUCK has moved entirely online, a victim of the economy and publishing’s continued entropy. But the buck boys are all on Twitter.
August 30th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Damn, too bad (@Thom) I was about to see how much an oversea subscription was. Good sell.
August 31st, 2009 at 11:42 am
When it was in print you could buy it stateside – I bought a copy of this exact issue at a B&N in New York. B&N actually has a good amount of import mags – and if you can’t find it there, a Universal News in New York will almost certainly have it. In fact, unless you’re looking for an obscure Asian language title, or something with a very high cover price or limited run, like Visionary, you should be able to find it in the US. Even then you can sometimes track it down if you want it badly enough.