Many of the magazines he collected were: Jazziz, Jazz Times, Stereophile, Wax Poetics, Bass Player, Sound and Vision, The Absolute Sound, Consumer Reports, Billboard, Hip Hop Weekly, Guitar Player, Guitar Legends, New York Magazine, The New Yorker Magazine, Time Out, YRB, and Mojo. Tribute magazines such as genre, sales, charts, audio, or someone who passed away he usually purchased and saved (in a plastic album sleeve for protection).