1977 Columbia House Record and Tape Club Commercial

[spongebob040]

it's 2 bad that some 8 track tapes are a little spendy on ebay.

[landrykkb]

"It's our secret." HA HA!It's not as if everybody already didn't know about Columbia House or how it worked.

[ChattieKathye]

@comeon678: That club is STILL a pain in the ass....except everything is pretty much online now lol

[MultiBlackguy12]

mexica

[comeon678]

Remember what a pain in the ass this club was. If you didn't send back the card in time they ended up shipping you some album you didn't want. Then try and return it and you still end up with Air Supply's B-Sides!!!!

[smittykins]

"You have a choice of all the top labels." IIRC, they didn't have any albums from RCA(which had its own club), and vice versa

[gapedhok]

Around 1982 I used the name Batman and they sent me the cassettes. When the bill came due Batman moved to a bogus address. Ah, good times.

[landrykkb]

@gapedhok Yes,I did plenty of that myself,although I'm not really proud of it.

[UlfeoinnIII]

they're closing down, going bankrupt folks. Poor employees who get shafted right before Christmas.

[Gingervention]

boycott them buy nothing

they screwed 100 families out of christmas money

[ksine]

yeh, but it was so easy to use a fake name and get the free albums and never respond again, haha! they would send a completely unenforceable threatening 'legal' letter to the erroneous name then you'd never hear from them again. i know people who did it 4 or 5 times and i know lots of other people did too back then. ahh those were the days. now everyone just steals from illegal dl sites instead so they skip the middleman haha. i guess the old way screwed the artist less though

[landrykkb]

@ksine The only way Columbia House could sue you is if you signed your name on the bottom of the application.It's just like signing a contract then.

[blackbeagle]

Secret golden box! pretty sneaky.

[maskof]

11 albums for only $1.00, then you had the buy 10 more albums as per agreement at full retail price PLUS shipping and handling for each one which worked out to, like $30 per album! That was a sweeet rip off.

[landrykkb]

@maskof Although Columbia House albums,cassettes,CDs,etc.somet­imes costed more than you'd pay for them at a retailer,it balanced out in the long run because you'd get "free" ones too.Technically,they weren't free because you had to buy an album first.