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  1. Jan 12, 2004 · I've noticed that a few albums available through the BMG Music Club now include DVDs, but I've never seen them packaged with DVDs anywhere else. I'm referring specifically to the Pat Benatar, Crowded House and Poison greatest hits albums, and there may be others.

  2. Jul 3, 2024 · Alternative rock band Hootie & the Blowfish sold 13 million copies of their debut album Cracked Rear View, and 3 million of those sales came through Columbia House or BMG. In fact, in 1994, an estimated 15 percent of all CDs in the US were sold through a music club.

  3. If you were into music in the 90s, you likely remember BMG Music Service and Columbia House that would advertise "8 CDs for the price of 1" or other similar offers. And the thing, it an actual offer.

    • 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....

  4. Dec 12, 2004 · Thought I'd be nice and post all the SACD titles available thru the BMG Music Club. All are $18.98 thru $24.98 except where noted. While this doesn't seem like a good bargain keep in mind you get 4 for free (plus shipping) after you purchase just one at full price.

  5. Jul 18, 2004 · This is a question to those who may have been in or still is in the Columbia House DVD Club or BMG DVD Club, or those who have seen the DVDs by these...

  6. Jun 21, 2021 · Throughout the 1990s, corporate CD clubs like Columbia House and the BMG Music Service dumped millions upon millions of compact discs on a consumer public ready to replace their vinyl...

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