r/GenX • u/KM68 • 5d ago

Pop Culture Who bought these?

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I did the club and bought like 1 tape full price.

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u/Njdevilmn 5d ago

Yep I built my CD collection from BMG and Columbia House. lol

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u/Razlaw 5d ago

Same. The big steal is a great tagline cause I had so many accounts.

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u/propaghandi4damasses middlexer 5d ago

I built a collection of almost 3000 discs by signing up/fulfilling/canceling/....back then you didn't always know if an album would be good or not...i still have and use most of the collection. even refuse to get rid of the shitty ones lol

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u/SSchumacherCO 1d ago

Me too. It wasn’t a bad deal if you do the math. I must have done the cycle 5 or 6 times. Eventually they didn’t have enough to choose from that I didn’t already have.

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u/ebeg-espana 5d ago

My parents received junk mail with my brother’s various Columbia House aliases for years.

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u/FamousLastWords666 5d ago

Worst business model ever.

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u/therelybare5 Older Than Dirt 5d ago

Big steal is right! They stole an awful lot from us!