For fans there to see one band, it was a crash course in the Boston music scene's eclectic mix. the Bear's Place last week for this year's Rock 'n' Roll Rumble semifinals. Two epic nights of Boston rock rolled through T.T. Record labels used to be content to slap a "remastered" sticker and a few B-sides on an album and call it deluxe, but that kind of lackluster package won't fly in 2010. kick out some brand-new jams at Firehouse 13 (401.270.1801) on THURSDAY (the 28th) with Baltimore's Lower Dens and the Manderson Project in tow. So Late it Hurts is the title of the forthcoming disc from THE 'MERICANS last call to catch Chris Daltry & Co. Coachella 2011 Photos: Crystal Castles and Cut CopyĬoncert photos of bands performing at the 12th Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.If you're a music fan, over the past few years you've had to wrestle with the moral question of our time: to pay or not to pay. 10 new ideas that could save the music industry.Release the album online the next morning, and perform it live in front of an audience the following night. Give them eight hours to write and record an eight-song album.
Take three notorious singer-songwriters and one famous author. By the 1950s, the Book of the Month Club was a multimillion-dollar business.ĭoing it ninja style, 10 new ideas that could save the music industry, Coachella 2011 Photos: Crystal Castles and Cut Copy, More The concept presumes that a lack of response was a "yes." It was wildly successful. The genius of the book club wasn't just the idea of selling books through the mail, thus penetrating untapped rural markets Sackheim and Scherman's real prize was devising what would come to be known as "negative option billing." This meant that instead of waiting for people to actually order books by mail, the club would send you books every month, unless you expressly told them not to. The architects of the record-club concept were two men named Maxwell Sackheim and Harry Scherman, who in 1926 had come up with a little thing they called the Book of the Month Club. Record clubs may have introduced several generations of America's youth to the concept of collection agencies - and the concept of stealing music, decades before the advent of the Internet.īY THE BOOK The Columbia House legacy can be traced back to Harry Scherman, and his Book of the Month Club. At the same time, consumers plotted to sign up multiple accounts under assumed names, in order to keep getting those 12-for-a-penny deals as often as possible.
Of course, most of the record clubs' two million customers failed to read the fine print, obligating them to purchase a certain number of monthly selections at exorbitant prices and even more exorbitant shipping costs. > VIDEOS: Vintage Columbia House Record Club Ads from the '70s and '90s << By 1994, they had shipped more than a billion records, accounted for 15 percent of all CD sales, and had become a $500-million-a-year behemoth that employed thousands at its Terre Haute, Indiana, manufacturing and shipping facility. By 1963, Columbia House was the flagship of the record-club armada, with 24 million records shipped. The allure of the record club was simple: you put almost nothing down, signed a simple piece of paper, picked out some records, and voila! - a stack of vinyl arrived at your doorstep.
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From roughly 1955 until 2000, getting music for free meant taping a penny to a paper card and mailing it off for 12 free records - along with membership and the promise of future purchasing.
After all, by the end, Columbia House was no longer Columbia House it had folded into its main competitor and become an online-only entity years before.Ī more likely explanation, though, is that a new generation of music fans who had never known a world without the Internet couldn't grasp the marvel that was the record club in its heyday. Other defunct facets of the 20th-century music business have been properly eulogized, but it seems that nary a tear was shed for the record club. On June 29, 2011, the last remnant of what was once Columbia House - the mightiest mail-order record club company that ever existed - quietly shuttered for good.
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