Columbia House, the mail-order music club, is shutting down

Columbia House had to shut down because Trump eliminated the penny.

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Damn. I bet it's because I stiffed them in 1988. Columbia House Is Shutting Down | Pitchfork share.google/YmYcLz5sy7mq...

When I was a kid, my brother couldn’t convince me to order from Columbia House because I kept saying “but we don’t pay for it? That’s stealing.”

Good lord. I had no idea that Columbia House was still in business. The Federal pen in Terre Haute might be hiring...

What were some of your Columbia House purchases? I don't remember them all, but I can say I joined in 1989 and Bobby Brown, Paula Abdul, Anita Baker, and Luther Vandross were all in my initial set. All hip hop was listed as R&B. I got in trouble with my dad for ordering "Sex Packets"

There was a guy at my fraternity house who just kept making new names to sign up for Columbia House with. Will never forget the box of CDs addressed to Josey Wales.

Columbia House the 71-year-old mail-order music club that is somehow still operating in 2026, is finally shutting down for good. ”After 9/15/26, Columbia House will no longer be accepting new orders,” reads a recent message on its website. “You can still purchase books with your credit card online

Spent much of college writing "return to sender" on monthly CD mailings so I could get kicked out and join again.

FTR. I am “bought Columbia house CDs” years old, not bought Columbia House records and tapes” years old

one of the used record stores I used to haunt when I was in my teens had a standing policy of never taking any LPs in trade that were Columbia House marked on the covers because they were "inferior pressings" to the released copies.

Some of the very first CDs I ever owned came from Columbia House in like 1992 when I was 14. I remember I had the greatest hits of Jimi, the Eagles, the Doors among the list. I never paid for any of them and I'm shocked they lasted this long.

My personal Columbia House story... I signed up in 7th grade when, like most junior high boys, I was going through a hardcore Led Zeppelin phase. I already owned self-titled and Zep IV but I wanted the album with a certain song that had a killer guitar riff but the chorus had no lyrics so I didn't

h/t @grantbrisbee.bsky.social and @dnazarian.bsky.social , I would not have guessed Columbia House was still around either. (I was slightly too young to have enough money to be a member in its heydey, but I certainly remember the "12 CDs for a penny" ads.)

i never did quite grasp Columbia House's "send us a penny & we give you cool shit" business model, but i liked it waaay more than the current late capitalism genre of "pay us + tip us + give us your data & we grant you rentier access to something ephemeral that won't work next week"