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BMG MUSIC PUBLISHING. Bee Gees courtesy of Polygram Special Products, A Division of Polygram Records. Special thanks to Nick Firth. Carol Lipkin, Danny Strick, Amanda Armstrong, Judy Hicks, Wayne Jordan, Michael Eaton, Chuck Bedwell.
Once the initial 3 albums were purchased, the account changed to a full membership and the catalog sent changed to include many albums with sale prices. Many sale prices either beat or matched retail, so there was no real way the companies were losing money.
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.
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.
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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....
Feb 3, 2021 · Here's a link to the searchable archive (with downloadable PDFs) of the english publication BMG (Banjo, Mandolin, Guitar) from 1911 - late 1970s. The ads alone are a fascinating trip down memory lane and there also many arrangements for the musical archeologists among you.
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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.
