YourMusic.com is dead.

[mikelz777]

Just got this email:

Please read this email carefully. It contains important information about your subscription.

This is to let you know that yourmusic.com will close on June 29, 2011. Here's some important information regarding your current subscription:

Your Queue will shut down on June 29, 2011. We will not ship any selections scheduled for shipment after that date. If you would like to purchase items in your Queue scheduled to ship after June 29, please move them to your Cart and purchase them before June 29.

You will be able to shop at yourmusic.com through June 29, 2011. Watch your mailbox for exciting sales and special offers in the coming weeks! Please note that supplies of certain titles may be limited.

Your credit card will not be charged monthly after June 29, 2011.

You'll have through June 29, 2011 to redeem certificates or free CDs you've earned.

Remember, you can still shop online at yourmusic.com and take advantage of our great closing sales until June 29, 2011. Please make sure you have signed up to receive emails from us here, so you won't miss out on special offers and important updates.

Your savings don't need to come to an end, though. Please visit booksonline.com, where you'll find amazing deals on your favorite books, DVDs, Blu-Ray™ discs, music and more when you join one of our popular book or DVD clubs.

If you have any questions, you can email us at cs1@yourmusic.com.

Thanks for being a yourmusic subscriber!

yourmusic.com

[jazzbo]

I'm surprised it has lasted this long the way that its inventory has been diminishing the last 12 months or so.

Oh well, the world is ending soon anyway.

[colinmce]

Lousy, lousy selection, but I will miss that "free" "extra" CD in the mail each month.

[BFrank]

I haven't bought anything from them in quite a while. I'm not surprised they decided to hang it up. I use to buy from BMG quite a bit, but that was in the "old days".

[Noj]

Strangely enough they haven't sent that email to all their customers. I keep getting Music Queue updates about items being back-ordered, but nothing about the club shutting down.

[jazzbo]

I didn't get that email either. However my queue, mainly filled with classical music choices, went from 14 items to 2 in a few weeks.

[felser]

Website now shows that they are closing. Ends 40 years of my life belonging to these types of clubs, going back to the old Columbia Record Club.

Yourmusic.com

Edited May 19, 2011 by felser

[mikelz777]

I'll probably pick through the bones of what's left of their catalog to see if there's anything worth picking up should they go into a deep discount mode to clear inventory. I had a hard time finding anything when they had a recent 30% off sale.

[GA Russell]

Wasn't BMG/YourMusic bought just a couple of years ago by Direct, the company that owns all the book clubs, for some huge sum? I'm surprised that they would shut it down so soon after purchasing it.

[mikelz777]

I checked out booksonline.com that was mentioned in the email. They said that music was among the things where you could find "amazing" deals when you visit the web site. Maybe I'm missing something, but I couldn't find any music there.

[Chicago Expat]

I checked out booksonline.com that was mentioned in the email. They said that music was among the things where you could find "amazing" deals when you visit the web site. Maybe I'm missing something, but I couldn't find any music there.

Sheet music?

(not really sure what this emoticon is, but it seemed apropos.)

Edited May 19, 2011 by Chicago Expat

[mikelz777]

Sale through the 25th for $4.99 discs. Promo code 499SALE.

Edited May 20, 2011 by mikelz777

[mikelz777]

There currently seems to be a problem with the site. For the last half hour, I've been trying to order a CD for my daughter and the site keeps freezing up. Guess I'll have to try later.

Edited May 20, 2011 by mikelz777

[Big Wheel]

Are they allowing new signups or is this only available to current members? I let my subscription lapse in 2006.

[mikelz777]

Unfortunately, it's only available to current members. They aren't taking any new members.

[alankin]

4.99 is good, but is there anything left of interest?

[mikelz777]

For me, there's nothing left that I gotta have, but I've purchased a lot from them (and BMG) over the years. I may be able to scrape up a few titles if the deals get even better. Even $4.99 is enticing. Weren't they in the $2-$3.00 range at the end when BMG went out of business?

Edited May 21, 2011 by mikelz777

[Aggie87]

There were some glitches in their system that got people 1-3 free discs (just pay shipping) repeatedly, with no purchase obligations, if I recall correctly.

Edited May 21, 2011 by Aggie87

[GA Russell]

There were some glitches in their system that got people 1-3 free discs (just pay shipping) repeatedly, with no purchase obligations, if I recall correctly.

Yes, and I remember how that ended for one of us!

[Chicago Expat]

They had Jason Moran's "Ten", Garbarek's "Dresden" and TBP's latest, can't remember what it was called, like "Don't Stop" or something. That's about the only new jazz of note I can remember hitting in the last six months.

Other than that, they got some more Verve Originals during that stretch, too, though I unsure what kind of appeal they have to listeners.

I do miss BMG. I used to take advantage of those sales where it was something like buy one at regular price, get two free, and every other album 90% off. We would pick up enough cds (like 40 or more) to get our effective price down to two dollars and change. Those were the days.

Edited May 21, 2011 by Chicago Expat

[Quincy]

4.99 is good, but is there anything left of interest?

Someone could get Chewy a copy of Money Jungle.

edit - Or was it SoulStation who needed it? I think that's how it went. I've forgotten my important organissimo forum history!

Edited May 21, 2011 by Quincy

[GA Russell]

I re-established my account today, and after some perusing I haven't found anything I want yet.

[Noj]

I bought the last few items left in my queue and left it empty. The 499SALE code works for box sets and multi-disc jobs, if anyone was wondering. Adios, yourmusic.

[ejp626]

I was somewhat flabbergasted to get a message from yourmusic trying to convince me to join Columbia House's DVD club. I can only imagine it will be going the same way as yourmusic in another few years...

[Noj]

I got the same message, ejp626. The last time I tried to join Columbia House DVD Club, they wouldn't let me in even though they invited me! I guess they remember me from the old Columbia House music club, when I must have quit and rejoined with two accounts about ten times each.