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In article <12q1keINNkas@agate.berkeley.edu> gtchen@glacier.berkeley.edu (George Chen) writes:
>Does anyone have any experience with those CD clubs that you
>find in magazines and in the mail.  Like the Columbia club and
>the BMI club...  I was thinking of joining the BMI Club since
>their advertisement effectively claims 8 CD's for the price of
>1.  However, they also add in a "shipping and handling" charge
>which they fail to specify...   So what happens?  Will I be
>charged 10 times the cost of the CD to have it mailed to me?
>Is the quality any different than a store bought CD?  Will it have
>the jacket and everything?
>

I thought the name was BMG (I don't have any literature from them handy
right now).  In any case, I've belonged to this club.  All-in-all I'd call
it a good, not great, deal.  They are as cheap as they say.  The per-CD
shipping charge is nominal, around $2.50 or $3 as I recall. How do they
do it?  Apparently, they license rights to the titles and reproduce them
themselves.  They get full rights; the CD's you get have the same cover
art, inserts, etc; they simply add a tiny logo from their club.

Obviously, not all labels will cross-license to them.  So their selection
is not as great as, say, Columbia.  But it's not bad.  They're particularly
good at having lots of old-time stuff (60's - 70's rock&roll, etc), but
they have a lot of new titles too.  Also classical, jazz, etc.

The only reservation I have is that, having exhausted what I want to get
from them, I've been trying to quit for 2 months now.  They still haven't
stopped sending me the cards that say I'll get such-and-such CD if I don't
respond.  But most record clubs are slow in that regard; I expected it
to take 2-3 months to quit.  If they don't stop in another month, I may
get mad...