Why subscribe?

From The Junket: "The only real reason to subscribe to a magazine, actually to give money in anticipation of as-yet-unwritten issues, is to be part of a club. And the only way to demonstrate membership of that club is to tell people about your subscription: to stack piles of magazines in your toilet and hope people notice. It's a good club to belong to: one whose members can think of themselves as people of leisure – they're people with time to consider things like the world, people with the luxury of interests. Serious people, in short. … That's a very nice thing to be."