Columbia House blast from the past.

Nope, but I did yourmusic.com for a while, which was BMG. I also bought many CH and BMG CDs from used stores.
 
I was still using them in the 90's. Two CD's I know I got from them and still have are Ozzy's "No More Tears" and King's X's "Ear Candy."
 
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Yep, I did it too, but like @LeftyTom and @Tig, I also did 8-tracks. Looking back, that was obviously a bad decision, but I was a teenager and had a beater car with a kick-ass 8-track deck. Oxymoron?

A few years later while I was in college, I knew more than one person that signed up, then moved the next semester and never completed their commitment. I'm sure that happened a lot.
 
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Iirc, "Columbia House" is in small print somewhere on the LP cover of each.
I'd be embarrassed to know how many of my vinyl LPs came from CH, and how many of those I never paid for :embarrassed:. I was hiding for years :grin:
 
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I did back in the (original) days of vinyl. Columbia had Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Johnny Cash, and Pete Seeger. I seem to recall Epic Records was part of their empire so Donovan albums were also available. That was many moons ago. :old:
 
Steverino said:
I'd be embarrassed to know how many of my vinyl LPs came from CH, and how many of those I never paid for :embarrassed:. I was hiding for years :grin:
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As a yout, I didn't like sending back the monthly selections they sent, even if it sucked.

Funny how they stop sending crap when you stop paying them after a while. Paul Simon should have included this method in "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover". :grin:
 
Did that with tapes, VHS, and possibly CDs. Definitely never made up fake names to get all the freebies and never pay.
 
I did it. But when I realized how badly they fucked members on shipping I bought all my regular priced albums in one order and canceled. A friend of mine was smarter. She signed up for all those clubs under the name of a Star Trek character, got her twelve CDs, and trashed everything else they ever sent her.

In retrospect the music clubs were a sign of how amoral and clueless record labels can be. They fucked the bands, fucked the fans, and were shocked when the internet allowed everybody to turn the tables.
 
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