I have received plenty of free magazine subscriptions in the past... I would expect to get this one as well. I will keep an eye on my account page on soundandvisionmag.com and as soon as I see that my subscription has been reupped, I will report back here. Sometimes it can take a month or two to get the first issue, and now that S&V has gone from 10 to 8 issues per year, I don't know when to expect the first issues.