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BMG/Columbia House Music Club Offers Two Services. Take advantage of both offers for best deal. No Longer Accepting New Members! All CDs $6.99. Shipping Is always Free! BMG Music Club Highlights: 12 CDs For The Price Of 1! No Contracts Or Commitments. . Huge Selection Of Over 14,000 Titles In All Genres.
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Columbia House merged with Sony/BMG in 2005. Columbia House...
- BMG Music Service
BMG Music Summary. Offer. Get 12 CDs for the price of 1....
- Columbia House
Jun 14, 2019 · At their mid-1990s peak, Columbia House and BMG made a lot of money. According to The Recording Industry by Geoffrey P. Hull, music clubs paid between $1.50 and $5.50 for a CD, which they then sold for $16. He reports that if the clubs sold one out of every three discs, they'd make close to $8 in profit.
- Nothing in Life Is Free. Especially CDs
- Inside The Belly of The Beast
- When The Music’s Over
- 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....
Jun 11, 2015 · Five reasons Columbia House was able to give away records so cheaply. Degraded audio quality. In 1994, Stereophile magazine published a feature analyzing whether the quality of the Columbia House or BMG CDs was actually much lower than one could find in a traditional record store. The belief—which hasn't been confirmed—was that the service ...
Mar 10, 2009 · March 10, 2009. The BMG Music Service — the mail-order company famous for offering CDs at deals like “12 for the price of one” — has revealed in an e-mail to subscribers that they will...
Jan 2, 2019 · Matthew Stuart. Updated 2 January 2019. In the mid-90s, Columbia House and the BMG Music Service offered unbelievable deals on CDs. People joined these clubs for a penny and got a bunch...
