I have a few digital subscriptions. Yeah, there's a lot of patterns on the internet, but frankly, unless they are from a "trusted source" (and I don't consider most blogs to be "trusted") I don't even attempt them. Frankly, I've run into some pretty serious issues with "free" patterns, where I was unable to finish the quilt because of bad/poor instructions, which only cost me money when the quilt wasn't finished.
At least magazines have editors to make sure that the instructions are more or less clear. What I don't buy a lot of is quilting books. The last book I bought was one that used the Ballypops and the instructions were so bad, I ended up having left over cut pieces of fabric, and no idea what to do with them. It was so clear that it was basically unedited!