I actually enjoy reading physical issues, so I keep them when I come
across them. Most of my paper mag collection is mine from BITD, but
I've gathered ones from other platforms and issues before I subscribed
to a periodical (Compute!, for instance).
If I need to research something, though, I use
archive.org. And, if I
had issues that were not archived (or newslettters), I'd archive them first.
I would *NOT* pay $125.00 for an issue. I doubt I'd pay that for a
collection of issues. But, if I saw a few for $1/issue or something,
I'd buy them.
Jim