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BMG Music CD Clubs Transitioning To Columbia House DVD Club. Don't' spend extra time and money shopping for CDs. Do it fast and easy online with BMG Music Clubs, and save time and money! BMG/Columbia House Music Club Offers Two Services. Take advantage of both offers for best deal.
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Jun 14, 2019 · How The Eight-CDs-For-A-Penny Music Clubs Actually Worked. Jacob Shelton. Updated June 15, 2019308.5K views14 items. If you came of age in the pre-streaming era of the '90s, you remember having to buy your CDs from stores. Or, maybe you took advantage of the Columbia House music club and its eight-CDs-for-a-penny deal, a discount that was too ...
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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....
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Jan 2, 2019 · Columbia House and BMG Music used to sell 12 CDs for a dollar or even a penny, and somehow brought in $1.5 billion in revenue at their peak.
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