Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxv!pyuxt!marcus From: marcus@pyuxt.UUCP (M. G. Hand) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: record society info needed Message-ID: <240@pyuxt.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 10:34:26 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxt.240 Posted: Fri Jan 11 10:34:26 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 07:57:04 EST Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 23 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 -- Marcus Hand {ihnp4!}pyuxt!marcus