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Old school music subscription service files for bankruptcy.
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You'd think they could afford a proofreader.
Thanks Abe, sad to hear. But like many others have posted, I had no idea they were even still around.
"You won't come back from Fletcher-Munson curve"-Jan and Dean
The were different only in being fabricated of metal, not plastic, the goal being to survive stray bullet impacts. ... to save the music
"You won't come back from Fletcher-Munson curve"-Jan and Dean
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"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
I had no idea they were still around either. Maybe that was part of their problem. No one knew they even existed anymore!
Had I known, I would have tried for a dozen DC's for 1-cent. ;-)
I actually did join once, back in the late 1980s. There was always an audiophile urban legend (or perhaps it WAS true) that record club LPs and DCs didn't sound as good as the releases you could buy in stores.
I dunno.
"You won't come back from Fletcher-Munson curve"-Jan and Dean
I recall hearing or reading something to that effect too. Not sure though if it was true.
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It didn't look correct to me, but two spell checks didn't flag it. I figured, given my proofreader comment, it would be more humorous just to leave it as is.
Maybe the CNN proofreader felt the same way.
"You won't come back from Fletcher-Munson curve"-Jan and Dean
"Dyslexix" would have been my choice.
I signed up both my bird, Oscar, and my parents dog, Greta so I could get the first lot of CDs for free, and then cancel later on.
I think I recall signing up the tree in the front yard, and the pile of shit out on the front lawn lawn. Nah... but hey!?
"I can't compete with the dead". (Buck W. 2010)
I was a member for a couple of years - I played by the rules though. ;-)
Yeah me too, trouble was after about a year or so I couldn't find anything else I wanted so I started ordering things I thought MIGHT be interesting, but mostly weren't. So I played by the rules & got stuck with some stinkers, but it was mostly a very good deal for me. Dave
Everyone thinks I'm strange except my friends deep inside the earth
...you were one of the ones who kept them going.
Yep.
You guys are a bunch of freaking THIEVES! :-)
...at their peak they brought in $1.4 billion in revenue a year.
I think.
"I can't compete with the dead". (Buck W. 2010)
:-(
As a teenager I would go to their monthly warehouse sales in Terre Haute. LPs were a buck and reel to reel tapes were three for a buck.
THREE (reel to reel) for a buck?
good selections?
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Lots of jazz and classical on tape. I was telling a friend about Abe's post and my response about pricing. He corrected me on one point: Newer rock alabums were a buck, but a great deal of other stuff (claasical, jazz, blues) went for .50 cents.
Got my first electric miles therein about 73.
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This was back in the vinyl days..... The problem was the records were badly warped in most part..... One of them had a dish warp so bad, it was suited more to be a birdbath than played on a turntable.
Yes even then at 13-14 I could tell they weren't the same as what I gotin stores. You get what you pay for...........
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"The problem was the records were badly warped in most part"
And the surface noise was LOUD. Piano solos were unlistenable. There was little QC at the plant and employees who brought their QC concerns to management were told to mind their own business. Suffice it to say, "virgin vinyl" was nowhere to be found at that facility.
...my friends and I bought a lot of records from them. We were just kids, so we would get our 12 records for 1-cent and that was the end of that. We all got threatening letters from them and even phone calls ...but how are you going to make a ten year old pay up?
They did a crap job of record keeping because we all signed up over and over again ...I think we all signed up 4 or 5 times before they got smart to us.
I thought they went bust a long time ago.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
...had no idea they were still around.
I recall them vividly from the late 1968 and 1969 when I was in college living in a fraternity house.
Buy one and get 12 free.
My fraternity brothers used to place orders under fake names - Columbia would never do more to collect than send a series of letters.
I discovered some great music back in those days I would have never listened to otherwise.
Can't believe they made it his long.
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