Boxx Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Didn't the enticement card or letter tell us that if we joined the "club" for .99 cents we could pick up to 10 record albums from the enclosed catalog list for free. The only obligation that we had was to buy 8 albums (at amazing club rates) over the next 2 year period. I suppose, with a few exceptions, this is how I started collecting my LP's. It is hard to imagine, in this day of quick downloads, of having to wait 2, 3 or 4 weeks for an album we ordered through the "club" to come in the mail. Also, it was very difficult to leave the club. Once in, always in..... lol... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 My brother was in the "club". It took forever to get him out as I recall. Was it Columbia? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxx Posted October 2, 2014 Author Share Posted October 2, 2014 My brother was in the "club". It took forever to get him out as I recall. Was it Columbia? Yes.... Actually I think that there were several, including RCA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerwoodKhorns Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Ah the Columbia record club, a timeshare for records. I preferred the K Tel smash hits albums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Seems like every magazine you'd pick up from TV Guide to Life would have one of their ads in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxx Posted October 2, 2014 Author Share Posted October 2, 2014 Ah the Columbia record club, a timeshare for records. I preferred the K Tel smash hits albums. I had a few of those. It would really piss me off when K Tel would have (on some cuts) an artist sing a hit song other than the original artist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxx Posted October 2, 2014 Author Share Posted October 2, 2014 Seems like every magazine you'd pick up from TV Guide to Life would have one of their ads in it. I can also remember buying a few RtoR tapes from the club... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 "Columbia House" was the name I believe. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tnr Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Yep, Columbia House out of Terre Haute, IN. I was really excited, but they screwed up my original list and sent some 8 tracks . Never did get it right, and it was a PITA getting out, but persistence paid off and I got out, and if I recall only paid the initial 99 cents. They also would send the 'album of the month", even if you declined it. Was BMG the other one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JL Sargent Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 (edited) It wasn't hard to get out of the club. We just quit paying for the records. They in turn quit sending them. Still have several of those including "Jesus Christ Superstar". Edited October 2, 2014 by JL Sargent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimjimbo Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 I was in. Ah, those were the days....of what, I'm not sure.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxx Posted October 2, 2014 Author Share Posted October 2, 2014 Never did get it right, and it was a PITA getting out Sort of like selling Christmas cards, from a club, and being promised points to use in order to obtain a prize for the "special" prize catalog. Those shipments of 24 boxes of cards kept coming in even after you tried to get out of the club. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxx Posted October 2, 2014 Author Share Posted October 2, 2014 It wasn't hard to get out of the club. We just quit paying for the records. They in turn quit sending them. Still have several of those including "Jesus Christ Superstar". You mean that you didn't get the "nasty" letter from the company attorney threatening legal action against you? lol... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TasDom Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 I use to be in one I believe was columbia House. You had to return their monthly selection card if you didn't want it. I'd always forget and get some pos cassette sent to me. Yes I said cassette....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tnr Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Yes I said cassette....... Better than 8-Track. My dad had a Chevy van 10 and it had an 8-track player. I bought Boston's debut album. Like most 8-tracks, it skipped to the next track right in the middle of a song. I think that one and a Robin Trower 8-track were the only one's I bought...THANKFULLY! Was there a worse audio format, ever? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JL Sargent Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Got Roberta Flack "Killing Me Softly", Jime Croce "Greatest Hits", America "Horse with no name" 5th Dimension "age of aquarius" from Columbia House. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptorman Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Columbia and RCA record clubs….I was in both. When I did not fulfill my obligation, they didn't pursue because I was only 13! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanm84 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Bmg and Columbia house tape club. If you did it right, you got the freebies, bought the two or whatever you needed to get right away, cancelled your membership, then started all over again. Did that a couple times and then forgot to send in cards, receiving whatever garbage was that months tape and called it good. I probably still have some of those tapes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssh Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 I bought MANY albums from several clubs, to the point that I mostly bought one and got several "free". They always wanted to re-enroll me in a "better" plan to get me to pay for more. SSH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Favog Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 (edited) Boxx - Those cover songs were sung by the "Sound Effects" on an album or two I sent for. I remember those "houses" coming out of Terre Haute, IN (IL?). I even did these offers a couple times for CD's. Some of them even had stamps you tear apart and stick on the form you mailed back. I kept those sheets of stamps and circled the ones I wanted to get just as a "to do" list outside of the club. Edited October 3, 2014 by Mighty Favog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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