New Black Flag released - exclusive extract

Or is it paper copies only.. tsk.

But if you're asking us to give you the whole thing for free because you're too cheap to fork out for one and help us to break even, 'anarchist', no that's not happening. We might put the previous issue online at some point, but would probably need to sort out a website for it to go on.

We got copies here a couple of weeks ago and the new issue is excellent. Much more up-to-date subjects than before. Can't recommend it highly enough.

nah, Rob, if you give out the whole pdf it will save me and others the hassle of waiting for it in the post, i can print as many copies as i want at my own expense, spreading your distribution and keeping your costs down, you should let it spread online and off, your line of reasoning sounds like the Music Industry. Don't be so hostile and assume i'm a rip-off.

You printing out an individual copy on your printer is not the problem, it's the fact that we have to sell the initial print run otherwise we're out of pocket.

We don't have alternative means to break even. We don't advertise, we can't put on stadium tours featuring the writers, so we need this run to sell in order to fund the next one for people who don't want to or can't print out their own from the internet and so we can get physical copies out to places.

Our reasoning is not like the music industry, not least because we are not looking to profit. Ideally yes online distro would be a good way to expand our reach and influence. But it would simply be unsustainble for us to pay large sums of money to print BF and then give it away free until we've made our money back.

Basically, if you can raise us the money we spent on the print run, I'll have no problem persuading the rest of the collective to put it out online. Otherwise you'll have to wait until some more supportive types pay it for you I'm afraid.