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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. Members must, however, pay shipping costs for each of the CDs they order (including ...
- Columbia House
This = $3.76 per cd! You can't beat that. As a new bmg...
- BMG Music Service
BMG Music Service. Get 12 CDs for the price of 1 at BMG...
- Columbia House
- 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....
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One Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Phone +1 212 561 3000 Fax +1 212 683 2040 info.us@bmg.com.
Apr 21, 2003 · I've been considering joining a cd club. The only thing really stopping me is the quality of the product. Is the disc you buy from the record club...
There is no obligation to buy and you can cancel your membership anytime online or by calling 1-716-250-5700. Sounds great! Let's get started. null.
