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From: marcus@pyuxt.UUCP (M. G. Hand)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: record society info needed
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Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 10:34:26 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 11 10:34:26 1985
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I recently received some junk mail through the post which invites me
to join the International Preview Society - a record purchasing discount
club.  The introductory is the set of nine Beethoven symphonies
on Deutsche Gramaphon, by the Vienna Phil under Karl Bohm.  At 9.98 for
the whole lot, and no obligation to make any other purchases other than
membership of the society, it seems to be too good to be true. And, you
get the Violin Concerto (Karajan/Ferras) also Deutsche Gramaphon for free.

What is the catch, I ask?  Does anyone know what the membership fees of this
society are?  I would hate to order the records on ten days approval and
then have to send them back after finding the dues are $200 or some such
nonsense.  Are these recordings good? New? Digital or analogue? Deleted
catalogue material? Or what?  Does anyone out there in netland have any
experience (good or bad) of The International Preview Society?  Hmmm,
they're claimed to be "silent surface" recordings, a term i've not heard
before.

		thanks in anticipation an' all that,
			marcus
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		Marcus Hand	{ihnp4!}pyuxt!marcus