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Originally Posted by Frownland
I did one of the 8 cds thing as a kid and used my dad's credit card without his permission (just a penny, he wouldn't even notice). A few payments that should have gotten me hundreds of cds showed up on his card at once and we had to skip dinner for three nights that week. Good riddance.
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I did it with the permission of my parents, but I don't think they understood how it all worked. Quite frankly, neither did my young self. I ordered a bunch of CDs, which included Metallica's
Ride The Lightning and Snoop Dog's
Doggystyle, among others. One of the actual gems I got in a bundle order from Columbia House was Alice in Chains'
Jar of Flies, which got me more into this band than what I had heard on the radio. With Snoop Dog, I probably bought the
Doggystyle album because (a) it was in a prominent place in the brochure, and (b) because I liked the album cover. I didn't know what it was, really. Well, my mother heard it playing and proceeded to lay the biggest guilt trip on me of all time. So much so that later on I destroyed the album with a sledgehammer.
I think like anything else, if you had read the fine print and understood how it worked, it would've been a beneficial system for discovering new music you otherwise wouldn't have bought outright at your local record store.