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  1. 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...

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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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  3. Columbia House was an umbrella brand for Columbia Records' mail-order music clubs, the primary iteration of which was the Columbia Record Club, established in 1955. The Columbia House brand was introduced in the early 1970s by Columbia Records (a division of CBS, Inc. ), and had a significant market presence in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s.

  4. Aug 12, 2015 · Columbia House Offered Eight CDs for a Penny, but Its Life Lessons Were Priceless. By Jack Hamilton. Aug 12, 20153:09 PM. Aug. 10, 2015 marked the demise of one of the most storied pieces of...

  5. 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.

  6. Jun 21, 2011 · A few months of automatic shipments later, you probably ended up like a lot of members did: as a no-income 14-year-old who owed Columbia House $47 for unwanted Sir Mix-a-Lot CDs. Let’s take a...

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