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Monday, February 23, 2004

Things I Own: Check From Music Industry Class-Action Suit
If you were paying close attention to my news links when I wrote about a pooper scooper convention in January 2003, you would have come across an item on Wired.com about how the music industry was being forced to refund money, to settle allegations they cheated consumers by fixing prices, to anyone who bought a CD between 1995 and 2000. Filling out a simple online form, with nary a receipt to prove a purchase was made, was all it took to get a piece of the windfall.

Today I got a letter and check from New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer for $13.86 to cover costs of the financial ruin and emotional damage incurred by overpaying for that KISS unplugged album.

Let this go to show that by reading this site — pooper scooper conventions or not — you are taking one step closer to a retirement filled with riches. Or at least 69.3% of the average lap dance in a decent NYC strip club.

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Comments: Things I Own: Check From Music Industry Class-Action Suit

I never thought it would happen to me, but I got my check in the mail today, too! Thank you, PaulKatcher.com!

Posted by Ken Goldstein at February 24, 2004 2:21 AM

Where do you get a $20 lap dance in NYC from someone not covered with lice and smoking crack?

Posted by Eddie at February 24, 2004 3:25 AM

$20 is how much is was at VIP Club in 2000, last time I was in one of those joints.

Posted by Paul Katcher at February 24, 2004 9:01 AM

Last time I was there, in 2000 or 2001, I had a free admission card from a fight I had just covered. A bottle of beer cost $9. This beautiful, smiling, sexy woman asked me for a lap dance-- for "only" $40. I still remember her face, but also still have the 40 bucks. Haven't been back since.

Posted by Eddie at February 24, 2004 11:45 AM

Eddie, you must have been wearing your "I'm a sucker" shirt that night. Lap dances are only $20--even at the classiest of all sports cabarets, Scores.

On another note, I work for the music industry and can't even get $13.86 out of them to pay for a decent stapler. Paul, I 'll be coming by to collect my check...

Posted by mr. hipster at February 25, 2004 12:30 AM

Shit, I had no idea. Do you know how many CDs I bought during that period... I should have gotten like thousands and thousands of dollars back. Oh, well.

Please let me know next time there's a class action lawsuit. I got get my money where I can, y'know?

Posted by Daniella at February 26, 2004 4:26 PM

The music industry probably thought they were justified in price fixing at the time, as they could see the internet coming in to change the way business works. Not a good strategy in any case

Posted by Kate Walker at July 13, 2009 7:36 PM
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