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re: Anybody do the Columbia House "12 CDs for a penny" thing back in the day?
Posted on 8/15/19 at 6:57 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Posted on 8/15/19 at 6:57 pm to Draconian Sanctions
I ripped off Columbia House and BMG at least half a dozen times.
This post was edited on 8/15/19 at 6:59 pm
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Posted on 8/15/19 at 7:06 pm to Draconian Sanctions
There was a lot of debate on rec.audio.misc and others about whether they used second rate stamping of cd's for the club.
The only difference I saw was the CRC indicator on the disc.
Sound Warehouse in Monroe was buying peoples used CD's and packaging them as new and charging full price.
They didn't want record club CD's for obvious reasons.
The only difference I saw was the CRC indicator on the disc.
Sound Warehouse in Monroe was buying peoples used CD's and packaging them as new and charging full price.
They didn't want record club CD's for obvious reasons.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 7:08 pm to troyt37
You only think you’re old ... I did it with 8-tracks.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 7:15 pm to Jake88
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CD sounds better that typical MP3.
Exactly what he said when he was ranting about not being able to find certain CDs nowadays.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 7:18 pm to IAmNERD
It does. You'd have to get a music server because of the space taken and download high def music to beat a CD. Apparently Tidal allows for a solid lossless streaming option. I don't care that much these days.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 7:22 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Since we're all wondering how they made money...
In 2000, BMG and Columbia House had gross revenue of $1.5 billion.
My favorite is that they'd buy masters to press discs, but didn't actually have distribution licenses to do what they did. They'd just pay publishers 75% of the royalties they'd have otherwise been entitled to and the publishers just cashed the checks and accepted the fricking. The mail order houses sold so much music that if anyone squawked, the mail order house would just stop selling their albums, fricking them even worse.
I mean that's goddamned BRAZEN.
In 2000, BMG and Columbia House had gross revenue of $1.5 billion.
My favorite is that they'd buy masters to press discs, but didn't actually have distribution licenses to do what they did. They'd just pay publishers 75% of the royalties they'd have otherwise been entitled to and the publishers just cashed the checks and accepted the fricking. The mail order houses sold so much music that if anyone squawked, the mail order house would just stop selling their albums, fricking them even worse.
I mean that's goddamned BRAZEN.
This post was edited on 8/15/19 at 7:27 pm
Posted on 8/15/19 at 7:22 pm to BARNEYSTINSON
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Killed that thing at the frat house.
fricking assholes at the Delt House were all over this. We had our own boxes and I would see packages in guys boxes who were gone for the summer. It was other dudes fricking them over.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 7:22 pm to Jake88
Yes! I did it in the cassette era
Posted on 8/15/19 at 7:25 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Was only way we could get the records we wanted right away. Yeah, we had to pay for 5 at full price but it was worth it back in the day ! 
Posted on 8/15/19 at 7:46 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Yep. Still waiting for my Jesus Jones CD in the mail.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 7:51 pm to Draconian Sanctions
My daddy use to preach "if it sounds too good to be true, that's because it is" and I remember people who did this and said "they send you CD, when they send you the bill just don't pay them back", but because of my daddy always saying the too good to be true, I figured there had to be some type of catch so I never did it.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 7:53 pm to Draconian Sanctions
I did it and BMG at same time. Came away with 24 CDs and they were all delivered on same day. My room became a concert hall.
I must have spent 2 hours that night shuffling around my 64 count CD album.
I must have spent 2 hours that night shuffling around my 64 count CD album.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 7:55 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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Anybody do the Columbia House "12 CDs for a penny" thing back in the day?
WTF?! I never saw those ads in Ebony!
Posted on 8/15/19 at 7:58 pm to 1984Tiger
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You only think you’re old ... I did it with 8-tracks.
Meh. I did reel to reel.
Been ripping them fools off since the 50's!!!!
Posted on 8/15/19 at 8:00 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Goodness yes, I think I am still paying for it
Posted on 8/15/19 at 8:12 pm to Draconian Sanctions
fricked my mom’s head up when she opened the mail box that day...
Marilyn Manson
White Zombie
En Vogue
Nirvana
Spin Doctors...
I had a field day with that shite!
Marilyn Manson
White Zombie
En Vogue
Nirvana
Spin Doctors...
I had a field day with that shite!
Posted on 8/15/19 at 8:15 pm to Draconian Sanctions
That Columbia House theme song has been stuck in my head for years
Posted on 8/15/19 at 8:20 pm to 1984Tiger
8-tracks and lp's.
Thin Lizzy and Nazareth baby!
Thin Lizzy and Nazareth baby!
Posted on 8/15/19 at 8:22 pm to FightingTigers138
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C&C music factory
saw them live back in the 90s in Houma.
don’t remember the year, but it was well after their 15minutes was up.
chick i knew won tickets on the radio so we went for the laughs.
was every bit as bad as you can imagine it would be.
Posted on 8/15/19 at 8:27 pm to shutterspeed
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Was it really a scam, though? I mean, it operated exactly as advertised.
Unless you were lazy and didn't cancel right after you got the first batch, you could make out like a bandit.
It really did exactly what ot advertised, and you only got stuck if you were stupid and let them send you stuff once it hit full price.
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