That’s me. I am somehow a "member" of BMG music club, though I don’t remember when I signed up, or why. Every month, they send these "Featured Selection" newsletters to my inbox, usually offering 5000 free CDs with the purchase of my featured selection and payment of shipping and handling. I am very, very good at resisting the temptation, especially since the featured selection is usually nothing I am interested in, and the other music I want is too obscure to show up at BMG.
However.
This month, the featured selection is Norah Jones’ latest CD. I really, really like Norah Jones, and I don’t have this album yet. AND wait! There’s more! Order this featured selection and choose FOUR MORE CDS FREE! Wow! Who could resist that? So I look, and Alison Kraus has a new album out, with, get this: duets with James Taylor and Sting! Those of you who know me well already know that I signed up for this fantabulous deal. So I get AK free, and a Diana Krall compilation, and Cat Stevens, because Heidi won’t stop talking about him and I figure I would like him too, and Frank Sinatra, because, and this is shocking, I don’t have any Frankie CDs of my own.
All in all, it was only about $30 for all five CDs.
And now I’m impatiently awaiting their arrival. It’s weird to actually get a CD anymore, since I’m used to buying downloads over the webernet. Jewel cases are SO clutter. We don’t keep them anymore, stuffing all of our discs into fat, overflowing, and somewhat organized binders.
I’ll let you know how it all sounds soon!
Didn’t actually think people did those music clubs! LOL!!!! Wow, and I know one of them personally! Hee Hee! You knew I had to pick on you for that one, right?
So, when can we get together and figure out those wreaths?????
ooooh– I ordered the duets CD from the library about a week ago, the one duet I heard on WKSU was beautiful. You’ve never heard Cat Stevens? Love him, although I haven’t heard his new stuff yet- aka after he came back from his “I left the world because I am a super enlightened hippie/ religious guru, etc.”. I’ll have to have you listen to the saddest song EVER that he wrote- Luke and I joke that it’s the song you make your kid sit in their room and “think about what they did” to. It makes you want to cry. and cry some more.
Hah! Cat Stevens!!!!!! And James Taylor and Sting?? This one had your name and birthdate on it. Of course you folded- especially If you get Frank in the deal!
Hiya. I tagged you with a little meme. Go see: http://tinyurl.com/2h5t6w.
I am cracking up, dearie, because I have done that before (signed up for 100 free CD’s if I buy 101 in the next 3 months). But the last time was very beneficial. I bought good stuff I thought would stand the test of time.
Can’t wait to hear how your new ones sound!!! Yay!!