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  2. 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

      BMG Music Service is a similar offer to the DVD club. This...

  3. Apr 13, 2024 · I worked at the BMG Music Service distribution center in 1995. As I recall, artists received their full royalty only when the customer paid full price (such as a selection of the month). They received half the rate for anything sold at a discount, unless it was part of the introductory offer; for those they received nothing.

  4. Mar 10, 2009 · Instead, three months later BMG Music Service is encouraging current subscribers to join up with sister site yourmusic.com, which offers albums at a discount price of $6.99 with no shipping...

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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....

  5. Jun 14, 2019 · Or, maybe you took advantage of the Columbia House music club and its eight-CDs-for-a-penny deal, a discount that was too good to be true. How could they sell products for next to nothing and still make a profit?

  6. With BMG, you would get four CDs for signing up, and after you bought one (for around $16, give or take), you would get three more for free. And you'd get more if you referred a friend, and so me and all of my friends did it.

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