Stop Me Before I Blow Up The BMG Music Website Server!

Last New Year's I resolved to hold off buying new CDs I knew would eventually show up at BMG Music Club, and await one of their better deals. While I didn't stick to that promise 100%, I was pretty good about it, and the coffers are filling with discs I probably would have paid retail for a couple years ago.

I'm about to pull the trigger on a large order that will come to $4.91/disc, shipping included. Imagine going into a record store with those prices! Below is a list of what's in my cart. Anyone got anything to warn me off any of these discs? Anyone know of any more prizes on the website I should order?

The B-52's - Nude On The Moon: The B-52's Anthology
Ornette Coleman - The Complete Science Fiction Sessions (Remastered)
Ornette Coleman - Skies Of America (Remastered)
Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde (SACD Hybrid)
Bob Dylan - Desire (SACD Hybrid)
Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (SACD Hybrid)
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (SACD Hybrid)
Bob Dylan - Love And Theft (SACD Hybrid)
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline (SACD Hybrid)
Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings
Aretha Franklin - One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism (Remastered)
Aretha Franklin - You Grow Closer
Funkadelic - The Electric Spanking Of War Babies (Remastered)
Funkadelic - Hardcore Jollies (Remastered)
Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove (Remastered)
Funkadelic - Uncle Jam Wants You (Remastered)
Marvin Gaye - I Want You (Deluxe Edition) (Remastered)
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On (Deluxe Edition) (Remastered)
Little Richard - God Is Real
Jack McDuff - Moon Rappin' (Remastered)
Thelonious Monk - Criss-Cross (Remastered)
Thelonious Monk - It's Monk's Time (Remastered)
Thelonious Monk - Monk At Newport 1963 & 1965
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream (Remastered)
Thelonious Monk - Solo Monk (Remastered)
Thelonious Monk - Underground (Remastered)
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels - Rev Up (Best Of)
Percy Sledge - It Tears Me Up: The Best Of Percy Sledge
Lonnie Liston Smith - Astral Traveling (Remastered)
Lonnie Liston Smith - Explorations

 

I love the BMG sales. I ALWAYS overbuy. I am more willing to try stuff that I would normally not even consider. I am a member of both BMG and Columbia House. I love BMG (yes there are problems, but overall I have been very satisfied). CH, on the other hand, is one of the coldest companies on the web. And their website seems to be always down, plus their prices do not come close to BMG most of the time. Long live BMG!

 

What sale is going on right now?

What's the code?

 

TO GET AN EXTRA 10% OFF YOUR ORDER, just click the "Have a promotion code?" link on the left side of our online store's homepage. Enter the promotion code "A4PM1" in the box on the new page and click "apply." Offer expires 01/27/04.

 

Hmmm, no code for me this month. Just the standard, buy one, get two free, and then unlimited CDs at $2.99. With $2.59 shipping each(!), you get fairly new CDs for close to $5.58. Beats paying $13.99 at BB or $18.99 at Tower. They used to have unlimited $1.99 specials, but I haven't seen this for 3-4 months.

 

Thank you for reminding me! I got the e-mail but accidentally deleted it. Wow, these will be even cheaper than $4.91/disc! Time to do more shopping -- bet they have the Parliament remasters by now.

 

Not a bad deal. Not their best. (The best was about a year ago or so, when I they had a buy-one-get-unlimited-at-$1.99-per-CD-and-FREE-SHIPPING. Bought HUNDREDS of CDs at $2 per CD ($4 per double) shipped...)

I don't see the deal you're seeing, though. Mine is Buy-One-Get-Two-Free and then unlimited at $2.99 (plus 10% off order with code). Ho-hum on that one...

Kwad

 

I always love contributing to the sickness of collecting music.. I can't say if all of these are going to float our boat, but here is what is sitting in my cart and has been for a while, just waiting for me to pull the trigger.




Lizz Wright-Salt
Jascha Heifetz-Bach, Brahms & Mozart, Double Concertos
Johnny Cash-The Man Comes Around
Various Artists Piano Grand--A Smithsonian Celebration
Jerry Lee Lewis-Original Sun Greatest Hits
Various Artists-The Best Of Austin City Limits
The Derek Trucks Band-Joyful Noise
Elvis Presley-Can't Help Falling In Love-The Hollywood Hits (Remastered)
Elvis Presley-Elvis 56 (Remastered)
Elvis Presley-Heart & Soul (Remastered)
Elvis Presley-From Elvis In Memphis (Remastered)
Elvis Presley-Elvis Presley (Remastered)
Frank Sinatra-The Voice Of Frank Sinatra (Remastered)
Frank Sinatra-Sings Cole Porter (Remastered)
Frank Sinatra-Sings Gershwin (Remastered)
The Beach Boys-Surfer Girl/Shut Down Volume 2 (Remastered)
The Beach Boys-Smiley Smile & Wild Honey (Remastered)
Freddie Hubbard-Hub Cap (Remastered)
Freddie Hubbard-Hub-Tones (Remastered)
Horace Silver-Song For My Father (Remastered)
Horace Silver-Blowin' The Blues Away (Remastered)
Horace Silver-Horace Silver Trio (Remastered)
Hank Mobley-Roll Call (Remastered)
Dexter Gordon-Our Man In Paris (Remastered)
Sarah Chang-Dvorak: Violin Concerto
Sarah Chang-Dvorak, String Sextet; Tchaikovsky, Souvenir de Florence
Diana Ross & The Supremes-Anthology
Solomon Burke-Best of Solomon Burke/Home in your Heart
Miles Davis- Miles Davis In Person Friday Night At The Blackhawk, Complete
Howlin' Wolf- The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions - Deluxe Edition
Robert Palmer- Addictions/The Best Of
Elvis Presley-Memories - The '68 Comeback Special
The Temptations-Emperors Of Soul
Various Artists- Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection
Various Artists- Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years
Elvis Presley- Sunrise
retha Franklin- Queen Of Soul: The Atlantic Recordings
Elvis Presley- Suspicious Minds
Dave Brubeck Quartet-At Carnegie Hall (Remastered)

Hope you find something from that list..

 

Fill us in the promotion code you have. Is it by 1 get 2 free plus 10%??

I'm confused.

 

Re: Re: Stop Me Before I Blow Up The BMG Music Website Server!

My mistake! I didn't realize the website's per disc calculator already takes into account the number of discs in each set -- I assumed it was calculated per title -- so I incorrectly adjusted for double-disc sets twice. My real cost/disc is $6.01 with the discount.

Still, how many times do you walk into a record store with a $5.99/disc sale going on? Wish they had the Elvis Presley Vegas box, though . . . Man, I'm having a hard time keeping it under $200.

 

But the poor artists get shafted on the royalties when you do this...funny how the labels like to talk about how downloading hurts artists...oh the irony.

(Yes, I do buy club CDs...lots of them, from CH and BMG)

 

Does anyone know if you can break this up - and do several orders of 1 + 2 free?

 

The artists sign off on this "promotional" device when they sign their major label contract. Now whether an artist actually needs the promotion of record clubs to sell concert tickets in Madison, Spokane or Santa Fe in the age of MTV, Clear Channel Broadcasting, and Internet retailers is another debate, but unlike wholesale file-swapping, they do put pen to paper authorizing it.

 

Damn! I could have done some damage today if I had known about that code! I think we should set up a little thread (or forum) that tells of the latest deals/promotion codes at BMG.

 

We can use the other BMG thread that Shawn started the other day:


http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27777

 

It's cheaper to pile it all on one order. The first three discs are more than $2.99 each.

 

Thanks Ron.

I just noticed they have The Beatles "Pepper" and "Abbey Road."

That's a first...no?

 

They are full price and don't count as part of the sale.