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The game of Columbia House and music-by-mail
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Before Spotify, there was Columbia House—the iconic “8 CDs for a penny” club that lived in every magazine ad. But a few enterprising New Jersey men took it way too far.
It's a wild dive into the loopholes of analog-era e-commerce, the nostalgia of handwritten order forms, and the fine print that fueled my teenage CD collection.
N.J. man admits using aliases to bilk music-by-mail clubs (Deseret News, Nov 19, 1999)
‘8 CDs For a Penny’ Company Files for Bankruptcy (Laura Wagner, NPR, Aug 11, 2015)
The Club You Don’t Want Let Into (Jonathan Rowe, Spin, Jun 21, 2021)
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*This episode was recorded in my bedroom.
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