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Remember those Columbia House and BMG Music Service compact discs you would get? Eight for a penny? Or 12 for a dollar? Were they as good as the regular reta...
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Dec 25, 2021 · Music Club CD vs Original Version! Any Difference? Compact Disc Data Comparison. ThriftyAV. 10.4K subscribers. Subscribed. 75. 1K views 2 years ago #Audacity #BMG #ThriftyAV. In this video,...
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Oct 30, 2020 · 4.44M subscribers. Subscribed. 6.8K. 275K views 3 years ago #WeirdHistory #Music #MusicHistory. If you came of age in the pre-streaming era of the '90s, you remember having to buy your CDs from...
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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.
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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....
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 · The Columbia House music club, quietly owned by media Godheads Sony and Time Warner, slung eight-CDs-for-a-penny — if the member bought a certain amount of music at full club prices while ...
