Remember the Columbia House/BMG “10 Cd’s for 99 Cents”?.....

[LezJepzin]

My pops real good off both the CDs and cassettes. Moms warned me about following in his footsteps but I was trying to Jumpstart my collection

Had two four foot double CD towers full at one point.

 

[ABlackMan]

They were burning CDs and photoshopping jewel cases

victimless crime

I remember my unc owned a barbershop lol so many memories of him being that nikka lmao go to his shop one day and he had a multidisc drive like thing that could hold 5 or maybe more CDs to burn all at once. At the time I had only seen the normal standard computer tower. I was only 7 but I understood what was going on lol

 

[ABlackMan]

Also The Blueprint booklet was fire. The real one

 

[MajesticLion]

University students feasted.

FEASTED.

 

[Nigerianwonder]

Vibe was getting paid to advertise for a company selling relicensed music, yes.


The jokes are the jokes, but the company was selling non retail CDs

How Columbia House sold 12 CDs for as little as a penny


“Larry: They would license the actual master tapes and the production files for the physical media from the major music companies. And they would be able to manufacture these records at a cost of about $1.50 or so each. In many cases, inferior pressings on vinyl and CD and you wouldn't get maybe the full lyrics and you wouldn't get the nice inserts and stuff and even the little booklets that were included in the CD were not quite as nice as the ones that you would get in the store very often.”

Keyword is "license". They were not bootleg. They worked with the labels and paid to license the music. They manufactured and distributed on their own which is were they saved money.

 

[DaPresident]

Put the initial 8 or 12 in my next door neighbor name...I used to live next door to this old cac and his wife when I was younger and lived in SC...

they both worked and I usually saw the mail brjng delivered after school, so I learned that you give a fake name and get to the mail before them and voila! Instant cds...

was only able to get the initial ones but I actually still have the cds...got CNN, Nas, Funkmaster Flex Vol. 2, Pharcyde, etc

 

[DetroitEWarren]

My name is Blake but I always ordered under the name Bryce Pittman


That nikka Bryce ordered all the classics I'm glad I knew bro

 

[Spence]

Didnt even think about it but the vid is right, bmg and all of the music it flooded the market with was being uploaded to Napster and limewire which was the demise of cd’s

 

[tuckgod]

That’s how I built my music collection.

 

[tuckgod]

Columbia house is one of the rare companies that if they pulled up to my house like “where’s my money” in 2021

I’d legit give it to them.

I ate good off them as a youngster

Facts

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

90s thread for real

 

[Luke Cage]

I'm low key looking for something like this now. Just start getting into vinyl, bought a record player. still don't have any vinyl records yet though.

 

[Boujee Bonita Braxton]

So many free CDs.

 

[You Win Perfect]

It was a monthly membership they signed you up for automatically once you took the bait. But all that you had to was cancel it.

 

[King Frost]

still don't have any vinyl records yet though.

check discogs or your local store
vinyl is hit or miss, some aren't pressed properly, some aren't mastered properly so they sound like shht even if pressed proper. Some are warped, some pressing plants use recycled vinyl, some sellers can't package it properly.
suggest you buy cheap used for $3-5 if online. buy what you like
clean the vinyl before playing it