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So did my copy..............

I used the F9S1 code to get free shipping on the Stompin' At The Savoy - The Original Indie Label 1944-1961 4-CD box set. It's a nice collection of jump blues, R&B, doo wop, and proto-rock and soul if that type of music floats your boat.

It's awesome. And You have to get the DE for no other reason than to have the live "With A Little Help From My Friends".

BTW - all three items I ordered with F9E1 are showing TOOS for me:
Cat Stevens - Teaser And The Firecat DE
Cat Stevens Tea For The Tillerman DE
Sinatra - Duets/Duets II 2CD

Hope they do get these back in stock. Guess I'm a dreamer, but I'm also hoping for the Elton John "Elton John" and "Tumbleweed Connection" DE's to be added to the club before it's over...

That would be a nice addition to the club! And a couple more new box sets wouldn't hurt either.

I received my last 2 TOOS today (Stevie Wonder 2 cd b/o & J Dupre Box).

I'd like to suggest/request that we all start posting any new TOOS titles so the rest of us will know not to order them with free codes.

Good find! Had to order one for myself.

I received notice that Concert For Bangladesh was due in 'any day now'.

FYI, I placed an order on my second account tonight. Bill me is still offered there also.

I just ordered it today so it still shows as "processing". I listened to all of the sound samples and really dug it so I'm looking forward to hearing it in full. Let's hope it doesn't go "TOOS" like many of the other titles.

I doubt many people will be ordering the TOOS titles I have pending but I did notice that someone mentioned one common title in one of their posts. I just received an email from BMG today that Misha Alperin - Her First Dance was still on back order but that they hoped to have a new supply "in the very near future".

My other TOOS titles:

Miles Davis - Lift To The Scaffold (coming up on 2 months now)
Frank Sinatra - Sings For Only The Lonely
Frank Sinatra - Come Fly With Me

(FWIW, the "Bill me" option was still available to me when I ordered something earlier today.)

BMG Music Translation: Your selection is due in "any month now"!

Nickelback's Dark Horse added to the list

F9X7

Buy 1, Get 5 Free CDs. "Promo code is only good until 2/19/09!"

I am so annoyed. I just ordered Nickelback's new album, Dark Horse, from Amazon at a price of $9.99 (free shipping - WOO Prime!). Then I log into BMG today and see that it's been added to the club! UGH! Oh well, I guess the $4.00-$5.00 difference isn't THAT big of a deal. Oh well.

- Joe

That stinks!

Where does my money go when I buy a CD?

The Washington Post ran a report on this subject on February 15, 1995.
Based on information from the RIAA, Billboard Magazine, and elsewhere,
they broke down the $11.99 street price of a typical hit new-release CD
as follows:

$ 2.00 Record-label profit + Executive salaries
$ 1.40 New artist development
$ 1.15 Distribution
$ 1.10 Manufacturing (CD + artwork + jewel case)
$ .85 "Other"
$ .80 Performer royalties
$ .65 Songwriter royalties
$ .65 Advertising and promotion
$ .35 Producer
$ .30 Recording costs
$ .25 Music videos
$ .20 Managers and lawyers
$ .10 Artist pensions
------
$ 9.80 Wholesale cost to retailer
+
$ .95 Miscellaneous retailer expenses
$ .90 Store personnel salaries
$ .75 Rent
------
$12.40 Total cost to retailer
$11.99 CD price at retail
$ .41 Loss to retailer

These figures make it clear that everyone but the label is getting a
royal screwing. Label profit, salaries, distribution (usually label-
owned), manufacturing (label-owned again), and "other" (a.k.a. "hookers
and cocaine for the label VPs") add up to $6.50/disc -- or more than half
of a CD's retail price. The people who actually make the music (the
performers, songwriters, and producers) get less than a third of that.

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For all of us who have been waiting, my order status for the Cat Stevens CDs Tea for the Tillerman and Teaser and the Firecat now show shipped on one of my orders instead of TOOS (order of 2/11). So now I only have the Cure 4:13 as TOOS on that order. I still show the Cat Stevens CDs as TOOS on another, later order though, as well as Concert for Bangladesh (order on 2/13).

that's interesting and all, but

this thread is going down way too many tangents and is ceasing to be a useful tool to those of us who are looking for good ways to get good deals from BMG (however long they may still be around).

so, one last request: please help keep this thread on topic.

FWIW, I ordered the two Cat Stevens' twofer reissues Monday and they both shipped today (supposedly). So, they must be back in stock.

I'm sorry this discussion is becoming useless to you, Hollowgen. I was curious to see what you have contributed to it, so I re-read all 46 pages. The above 4 quotes contain all of your contributions to this thread.

There are plenty of posts here that do not interest me. That has not kept me from reading the ones I like, or from contributing to the thread. I have enjoyed the high level of activity that we've recently experienced since the announced closure of the club. There used to be days on end without a comment or a new code. I hope you can find a way to extract the information you need, while leaving those with more tangential comments an opportunity to express themselves.

Thank you for your post. It may be off topic a bit, but I found it extremely interesting and am glad to have read it.

LOL! Way to tell off that condescending A-hole. Some of the "shut-ins" that post on this board need to have someone wheel their asses outside for a while.


................G

I found it interesting also.

new Toos: Singles 1969 - 1981 (SACD Hybrid)
The Carpenters
1 CD