Joe Rogan believes Columbia House record deals were scheme to boost record sales: "Rip artists off"

UFC commentator Joe Rogan believes the popular 80s mail-based music subscription service Columbia House, while bolstering record sales, ripped the artist off money.

During episode #2176 of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, the 56-year-old was telling stand-up comic Chad Daniels how to effectively void oneself of recurring subscription-based services, when he reminisced about Columbia House.

The Sony and BGM-owned, mailed-based music record subscription service was one of the early proponents of recurring content subscriptions, now perfected by companies like Netflix and Spotify.

Columbia House was instrumental in bolstering record sales during its heyday. According to a report by Tedium, 'Hootie and the Blowfish' sold over three million copies of Cracked Rear View all thanks to the subscription-based service.

Rogan, however, is a bit skeptical of the fabled success of record house. During the podcast, he noted his reservation about whether anybody subscribed to the service.

As he sees it, the organization often showed inaccurate and inflated figures for CDs sold to make artists seem more popular than they actually were. Rogan also doubts if the record house ripped off musicians with their business model:

"I also think it was probably a way they could rip artists off, because they could say, 'We lost all this money on Columbia', they could like factor it in, you know, and say, 'It seems like you sold a million copies but actually 400,000 of them are Columbia and nobody has paid for them.'"

Catch Joe Rogan's comments below (3:44):

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Joe Rogan dubs Donald Trump photo as "iconic"

After escaping an assassination attempt by the skin of his teeth during a rally in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump pumped his hands at his supporters while mouthing the word fight.

The heroic moment was photographed by Associated Press' [AP] Evan Vucci and Joe Rogan believe the snap is one of the most iconic photographs of all time. During the JRE episode, the veteran sportscaster told Chad Daniels:

"Bro, he pumps his fist in the air and says fight, fight, fight. And when the f*****g guy who is the photographer is a wizard... the angle that he got it, where he was standing when he took the photo, it is one of the most iconic photos of all time."

Vucci is the chief photographer for AP in Washington. He is a Pulitzer Prize and a national Edward R. Murrow award winner.

Check out Evan Vucci explain how it was to photograph the iconic moment below: