Buying music, 9th grade style!
I have a deep, dark secret to share with you. Don't tell ANYONE, or my rep is ruined.
(sigh)
For the past year, I've been occasionally ordering records from BMG Music Service.
No, really. I have.
I got suckered in on a whim. I was talking to a guy in a bar who told me he loved BMG. Now, this guy knew a little about music, and so I listened to what he had to say. He claimed that BMG was a cost-effective way to fill in the cracks in his collection when it came to popular artists. He challenged me to spend a half-hour searching their online database to see if I could come up with 12 CDs that I wanted to purchase.
Their deal is just that: buy 12 CDs for the price of 1, and have nothing ever to buy again.
So, I did it. And sure enough, I found 12 CDs that I wanted to purchase. I bought a couple Neil Young albums that I didn't already own, a couple Simon & Garfunkel albums, a Richard Thompson comp, some Tammy Wynette and Emmylou Harris and Raspberries... And the next thing I knew, I was hooked.
BMG sucks if you're after indie artists or the Rolling Stones, and their back catalog for major artists is often spotty at best. But, they have just enough to keep someone like me shopping. For example, I got a double-disc Sandy Denny comp for $3 plus shipping.
They get you with the shipping costs, which do add up. And after you do your 12 discs for the price of one, they maintain your interest with deals like buy one at regular price, get two free, and then receive unlimited $2.98 CDs. If you hook on to the right monthly sale, you can average about $7 per disc (shipping included)...or the price of a used disc. Not a bad deal.
Still, I feel ashamed for having joined up in the first place. It's services like BMG that have helped to bankrupt mom and pops around the globe. But, alas, a good deal is hard to pass up, and I've done my share of supporting mom and pops. So, I guess I've earned this right, or something.
Anyway, my friend Jon did it first. (Of course, he was in 9th grade at the time.) So, I can always point my finger in his direction when it comes to the blame game.
(sigh)
For the past year, I've been occasionally ordering records from BMG Music Service.
No, really. I have.
I got suckered in on a whim. I was talking to a guy in a bar who told me he loved BMG. Now, this guy knew a little about music, and so I listened to what he had to say. He claimed that BMG was a cost-effective way to fill in the cracks in his collection when it came to popular artists. He challenged me to spend a half-hour searching their online database to see if I could come up with 12 CDs that I wanted to purchase.
Their deal is just that: buy 12 CDs for the price of 1, and have nothing ever to buy again.
So, I did it. And sure enough, I found 12 CDs that I wanted to purchase. I bought a couple Neil Young albums that I didn't already own, a couple Simon & Garfunkel albums, a Richard Thompson comp, some Tammy Wynette and Emmylou Harris and Raspberries... And the next thing I knew, I was hooked.
BMG sucks if you're after indie artists or the Rolling Stones, and their back catalog for major artists is often spotty at best. But, they have just enough to keep someone like me shopping. For example, I got a double-disc Sandy Denny comp for $3 plus shipping.
They get you with the shipping costs, which do add up. And after you do your 12 discs for the price of one, they maintain your interest with deals like buy one at regular price, get two free, and then receive unlimited $2.98 CDs. If you hook on to the right monthly sale, you can average about $7 per disc (shipping included)...or the price of a used disc. Not a bad deal.
Still, I feel ashamed for having joined up in the first place. It's services like BMG that have helped to bankrupt mom and pops around the globe. But, alas, a good deal is hard to pass up, and I've done my share of supporting mom and pops. So, I guess I've earned this right, or something.
Anyway, my friend Jon did it first. (Of course, he was in 9th grade at the time.) So, I can always point my finger in his direction when it comes to the blame game.
posted by thenoiseboy @ 8:30 PM
1 Comments:
At 10:55 PM,
Jonathan Wright said…
Sure Doug, blame the anti-rove. You filthy stinkin' liberals and yr activist judges and...
Oh wait, wrong argument. Dude, Sandy Denny 2xCD for 3x$? A big fuck yeah for that one. Almost as good as Skid Row and OU812, two albums, which, incidentally, still maintain a place in my collection, albeit in a different format.
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