(05-25-2022, 08:35 AM)Mikey Wrote:

(05-24-2022, 06:44 PM)WingerDinger Wrote: Anyone else remember Columbia House and getting bunches of CD's for like a penny?

Phil Collins: Serious Hits Live
George Therogood & The Destroyers Greatest Hits
ZZ Top: Eliminator
Jimmy Buffet: Songs You Know By Heart
Ratt: Out of the Cellar

I think I still owe them like $50 from like 30+ years ago lolol

LOLuOld

(I owed my money to BMG.)

I can remember mom would get albums from CH on the regular. IIRC the business model was "we send you a cherry-picked album each month, if you like it send us 3x what you could buy it for in the store"

Right, they would send you a list of 100 CDs or cassettes that were all at least a year old.  You could pick 5 to 10 of them and they'd send them to you for only like $10, the shipping/handling charge, but you had to agree to buy one or two full price albums later.  And full price was like $25 including shipping/handling.  That part was a good deal.  The full price albums were generally new releases.  The part that was a bad deal is you had to know to cancel as soon as you'd met your obligation or else they'd keep sending you full price albums and billing you for them.

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