I donated a lot of my extensive collection to the Institute of Popular Music in Liverpool where I studied. I'm sure if you wanted to the media / cultural studies department at your local college would gladly accept a donation.

They were talking about this on their last podcast as Adam (or was it Joe?) was moving house and trying to work out what to do with his stash of Mojos. They discussed soemthing which I had never heard of before which would render them extremely useful. Apparently magazines used to occaisionally produce special index publications just for subscribers. So you could put your mags in a binder and then have an index at the back so you could look up a band and then find all the related articles and reviews on them.
Had I had one of these I might not have binned all my old copies of Empire that covered about five years from 1995 - 2000.

I actually made 60 quid on eBay for a continuous set of Mojos - but I got rid of piles of other mags via Freecycle. See www.freecycle.org as discussed in other thread. Love it.

to Colin Larkin... he wouldn't have the heart to turn them away.

I'm shifting soon and have a very extensive collection of said mags.
Anyone who's interested in parting with some hard earned for them should contact me here!

I'm always on the look-out for the first couple of year's worth of Select magazine - for some reason I want the full set (maybe because it steered me through my formative years). If anyone want's to get rid of them... I'm your man.

Surely you can sell back-issues of The Face through ebay - There's got to be a market for such a cult/design orientated magazine?

When we were moving and had to lose clutter, I sold Empire No 1 on eBay for £50-something, and the rest of the first few Empires went for slightly less.

But then I discovered that the rest of my collection, of every issue over some 20 years, was practically worthless. So many people are selling them, and so few people want No 235 or whatever, that I had to take the awful decision to put them all in the recycler. I couldn't think of anywhere else for them to go (although I wish I'd thought of the university/library idea mentioned here).

I had to do the same with my VHS collection of hundreds of tapes, and I'm sure my hands were shaking...