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May 3, 2018 · The 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. Album titles and the occasional colored pop-out images of recording artists like Sting and Chris Isaac littered the two-page spread.
The largest and oldest of the BMG music clubs is the BMG Music Service. This is the service most of you have heard of: 12 CDs for the price of one! Becoming a member of this great service is easy and convenient. First, you select seven free CDs from BMG's vast catalog of music.
Jun 21, 2021 · BMG made its name with the seminal “Buy one get 12 free” offer, before warping the deal to “10 CDs for the price of half” — meaning the purchase of one half-priced CD (discounted as such only...
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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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Dec 8, 2005 · People-What is the best way to join the BMG Club? Is there a deal or anything where the shipping is reduced, or anything better than the standard sign-up? Thanks!
