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There are two major BMG music clubs that both offer outstanding deals to members. The more famous and oldest club is the BMG Music Service. This club allows members to receive 11 free CDs as long as they purchase one at regular price within a year of sign-up.
- Columbia House
Columbia House merged with Sony/BMG in 2005. Columbia House...
- BMG Music Service
In case you haven't heard yet, BMG Music acquired the...
- Columbia House
Jun 26, 2020 · Yes, in the early '90s, BMG Music Club was a great way to expand my collection on a budget. Never bought the full-priced selections, but shopped the sales and signed up everyone I knew to earn bonus selections. They were real glass-mastered CDs.
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May 3, 2018 · If anything, music made me a better reader. I began to see books as mixtapes — suddenly Holden Caulfield was R.E.M’s “Everyone Hurts,” Biggie’s “Juicy,” Tina Turners’ “I Can’t Stand the Rain.”. Each song cracked me open and tested my edges. I was learning myself.
Jun 15, 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....
Dec 24, 2008 · R.I.P. BMG Music Club. by Aaron Leitko December 24th, 2008. Looks like BMG Music Club has finally closed its doors to new members and is basically washed-up for good. For those unfamiliar with BMG ...
Apr 26, 2022 · Thank God I haven't run into any clubs on those two manufacturer's Discovery Systems were mainly for promo's -specialized in cd face art/print. Think I have only a couple that were retail, one being an old Replacements-Hootenanny Luckily with my US Nimbus's I only have a handful if, that are 'sticky's'
