Fare Thee Well Columbia House [VIDEO]

Coumbia House is no more. Sit back kids, millenials, whatever you are calling yourselves these days and let me tell you a little story.

Once upon a time, there was this magical place called Columbia House. It was a mail-order company/music club and you could buy 11, 12, sometimes more records, 8-tracks, cassettes, and eventually cds for only a penny or a dollar. Watch this 1977 commercial!

The gold box, now that's what I call music! I would take a pen and mark all the tapes I wanted!  Of course, I learned at age 8, there's a catch. While I got to keep my tapes I ordered for a penny, I was now on a mailing list and I was club member who started receiving a "tape of the month" that I didn't realize I, ahem, my parents would have to pay for. Ooops!

Here is a list of the albums, that I can remember, I bought in that first batch:

This one, obviously...

I also got the Flashdance soundtrack, some random Elton John title, Kool and the Gang, a J. Geils Band live album, which was confusing because all I wanted was "Centerfold", The Go-Go's 'Beauty and the Beat', Rick Springfield's breakthrough album 'Working Class Dog', at least one if not two from Hall & Oates, and more, but the titles escape me at the moment.

The most shocking thing I learned from Columbia House going bankrupt, that they were around this long, even after iTunes, Napster, Spotify, Google Play all took over over. When you go to the their site now, HERE it is, as you can see, they are still selling movies and tv series on the same premise, you get one dvd/blue-ray for free then buy into the club. On Twitter, they have less than 200 followers. I have more followers than Columbia House; it make me sad.