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  1. No Longer Accepting New Members! All CDs $6.99. Shipping Is always Free! BMG Music Club Highlights: 12 CDs For The Price Of 1! No Contracts Or Commitments. . Huge Selection Of Over 14,000 Titles In All Genres. Daily specials like "Buy 1 CD, Get 3 Free" and discounts of up to 70% off retail price. Opportunities to earn more free music.

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

  2. Jun 14, 2019 · At their mid-1990s peak, Columbia House and BMG made a lot of money. According to The Recording Industry by Geoffrey P. Hull, music clubs paid between $1.50 and $5.50 for a CD, which they then sold for $16. He reports that if the clubs sold one out of every three discs, they'd make close to $8 in profit.

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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....

  4. Which Music Club Is Best For Me? Lets compare the benefits of BMG/Columbia House top two music clubs. You have unlimited access to over 14,000 CD titles at both the BMG Music Service site and BMG's Yourmusic.com site.

  5. Apr 30, 2020 · BMG is opening up its myBMG app to artists across the music industry to allow them to pitch for songs from BMG songwriters. Artists can submit written briefs or even videos to BMGs writer roster, which includes Jessie Reyez, Erika Ender, Victoria Monet, Jason Evigan, Camille Purcell and more.

  6. May 3, 2018 · If anything, music made me a better reader. I began to see books as mixtapes — suddenly Holden Caulfield was R.E.M’s “Everyone Hurts,” Biggie’s “Juicy,” Tina Turners’ “I Can’t Stand the Rain.”. Each song cracked me open and tested my edges. I was learning myself.

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