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  1. BMG Music Service. Get 12 CDs for the price of 1 at BMG music club. After choosing 7 cds, you must buy 1 at regular club price within a year to receive the other 4. Just pay shipping and handling. Join BMG.

    • CD Music Clubs

      There are two major BMG music clubs that both offer...

    • Columbia House

      Columbia House merged with Sony/BMG in 2005. Columbia House...

  2. BMG is home to three Stones, two Beatles, Tina Turner, Iggy Pop, ZZ Top, Black Sabbath, and many more. Synch Our 90-strong team around the world will maximize your opportunities in film, TV, games and advertising.

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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....

  3. Jun 14, 2019 · February 23, 2016. Fraud on a major scale was a huge problem with Columbia House and BMG. People signed up with different names and credit card numbers in order to get heaps upon heaps of free CDs, cheating the music clubs out of thousands of dollars.

  4. Mar 10, 2009 · The mail-order company that offered CDs at deals like "12 for the price of one" announced its closure in an e-mail to subscribers. Current subscribers were encouraged to join yourmusic.com, which sold albums at $6.99 each.

  5. Jan 2, 2019 · Learn how the record clubs used negative option billing, low prices, and inferior products to generate billions of dollars in revenue. Find out how artists and writers were paid, or not, for the CDs they sold or gave away.

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