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From: jhr@ncsu.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.records
Subject: Record Club of America
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Date: Wed, 27-Jul-83 23:48:10 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 27 23:48:10 1983
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	Back in the early '70s, I bought a lot of records from
a place in York, PA called Record Club of America.  They seemed
to be different from the other record clubs in that they had no
required purchases or automatic shipments.  Also, it was not
hard to get some good deals from them, particularly by signing
up new members.
	Apparently, they were doing some of their own
pressing, because records often arrived with a statement like
"Manufactured under special license issued by xyz recording
company to RCOA".  I often wondered about this, but the records
were usually of good quality, and I never had any problems with
returns.
	I haven't seen any ads for RCOA in several years, so I
guess they went out of business.  Did anyone else ever buy
anything from them?  Does anyone know anything about them--
Their history?  How they operated?  What happened to them?
	Please reply by mail, and if there is enough interest,
I will summarize to the net.  Thanks.

John Reece
N.C. State Univ.
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