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BMG Acquires Catalogue of Germany’s ‘Lemon Tree’ Hitmakers Fools Garden. BMG: Serving Artists and Songwriters. Most everyone loves music, but who looks after musicians? BMG does.
- Nothing in Life Is Free. Especially CDs
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- Turn Out The Lights
CD clubs offered ever-shifting traps for all ages and tastes, the deadliest of which involved ordering and receiving free albums, not paying a thing, never canceling the subscription, then dropping off company radar. Once a given time passes, contract clauses spring to life, full price is charged for all free discs, a collection agency is assigned,...
To keep costs low and profit margins high, CD clubs produced their own discs to sell, some apparently of questionable sound quality. Stereophileconducted a test in 1994in which top audio engineers repeatedly listened to both club and retail releases of the same albums, and indeed, they detected inconsistencies — different compression levels, stereo...
By 2003, the unraveling had begun. In a class-action lawsuit, a U.S. District Judge dropped the hammer on CD club private defendants, for what CBS News called a “price-fixing conspiracy.” A $143 million settlement was dispensed to millions of buyers, in the form of 75% discounts on full-priced club discs…which required a membership to buy. The priv...
BMG CD club was ultimately put to sleep in 2009 by its parent Columbia House group, who then succumbed to bankruptcy in 2015. In addition to schemesters and lawsuits, several clear factors led to their downfall. One painful legal caveat involved clubs having to wait from three months to a year before being permitted to sell an artist’s new release....
May 3, 2018 · Books & Culture. How BMG’s Music Club Made Me a Better Reader and Broke My Mother’s Heart. The CD mail-order catalog helped me find myself and connections I longed for. May 3, 2018. Kristin Keane. Share article. T he BMG music logo was the thing that first drew me to the four-by-five card embedded into the spine of a Rolling Stone magazine.
Columbia House was an umbrella brand for Columbia Records' mail-order music clubs, the primary iteration of which was the Columbia Record Club, established in 1955. The Columbia House brand was introduced in the early 1970s by Columbia Records (a division of CBS, Inc. ), and had a significant market presence in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.
- 1955; 68 years ago
Jan 2, 2019 · Columbia House, BMG Music, and other clubs utilized a practice called negative option billing. Larry: The way that the clubs offered music to consumers was through a catalog roughly every...
Columbia House and Related Programs. Welcome To Your Best Source For Deals On DVDs, CDs, & More! Columbia House Music Club Is Now BMG Music Services. When you think of CD music clubs, which names come to mind? BMG and Columbia House, right? Can you think of any others? Take a moment . . . Well, you couldn't think of any others, right?
