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  • One Cent Record Clubs and Predatory Discovery

    One Cent Record Clubs and Predatory Discovery

    What’s the value of music when your life is falling apart? How did that “ten albums for a penny” deal really work? And could a kid’s mail-order music club from the 1980s have predicted today’s subscription trap? In the summer of 1983, I was a wreck. My grandfather pulled into a RadioShack parking lot and…

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