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SEND NO MONEY: The rise and fall of the Columbia House record club — and how we learned to steal music

Posted by Poles Apart on November 11, 2011 at 09:06:34:
Utterly fascinating. How Columbia used the marketing prowess of the founders of the Book of the Month Club to promote its new LP format to a public that didn't know it needed it.

Also: The rise and fall of Terre Haute, Indiana -- the town that Columbia House built.

P.A.