Journey.
TLDR: I had a Journey album once as a kid. It had some okay songs.
Longer: Remember those record company deals where you could get 6 albums for a nickel if you agreed to receive a letter every 4 weeks for like 2 years and you had to return the enclosed coupon to decline the next album they'd send. If you didn't return it you were then obligated to buy the album after they sent it to you, at some inflated price.
For reasons I don't remember I often forgot to return those decline coupons and wound up with a few albums I would have never purchased otherwise. Not only did I forget to return those decline coupons, but I also neglected to return the resulting invoices with expected payment.
That is how I wound up with a Journey album, and also Foghat, Yes, and Edgar Winter. Stuff that didn't really interest me that much... and I suspect stuff that wasn't flying off the shelves for the record company.
After some time had passed the record company began sending me collection letters demanding payment. I think they threatened legal action or something like that.
I was only 14 at the time and so my dad wrote back to the record company telling them that I wasn't old enough to enter into a contract with them and they should fuck off.
They stopped sending me records after that.
A couple of years later my lutheran church youth group decided to publish a youth group hymnal, and so we all submitted the lyrics to songs that we thought should be in the hymnal. I submitted Journey's song Wheel In The Sky, and to my surprise the youth group leader let it in -- I don't think she realized it was a song from a rock band.
Cool story I know.
And yeah, I might be going to hell.
I remember getting swindled by BMG. Same concept yet cd’s. $20 for shipping and handling. I don’t remember the other two but two of them was the chronic and doggy style. I blame those two cds for me being the way I am today. Better or worse.
CSB.