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Jun 26, 2020 · Yes, in the early '90s, BMG Music Club was a great way to expand my collection on a budget. Never bought the full-priced selections, but shopped the sales and signed up everyone I knew to earn bonus selections.
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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....
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.
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.
Dec 24, 2008 · Looks like BMG Music Club has finally closed its doors to new members and is basically washed-up for good. For those unfamiliar with BMG, when you signed up you got to pick 12 or so free...
Jun 21, 2021 · BMG made its name with the seminal “Buy one get 12 free” offer, before warping the deal to “10 CDs for the price of half” — meaning the purchase of one half-priced CD (discounted as such ...
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May 3, 2018 · The BMG music club offered stories, but it also provided an opportunity: my father liked music. Maybe I could find him somewhere inside of it. In my memory the CDs took months to come, though it couldn’t have been more than a few weeks.
