Give me my disc back!

I’ve been meaning to blog about this for weeks but have been busy and have had more pressing issues. A few months ago I was fortunate to get the new Coldplay disc from my lovely girlfriend as a present. Truth be told I had already downloaded the album a few weeks before. I justify this action purely by the fact that since Coldplay is my favourite band and I knew I would be buying the disc regardless. I like the “Play” and I like to support Chris Martin’s bad taste in naming his children.

I popped the disc in my car, I loved the album even more in decent CD quality than I did on my computer. It was this fact that made me thing I should possibly re-rip the disc so I could have higher quality MP3’s on my computer. I also knew it would make me feel slightly less dirty if I used the original to make MP3’s.

In my Macbook I popped my disc (right now you’re thinking what a prat I am for loving Mac’s and Coldplay) and was greeted with absolutely nothing. I eventually got an error message saying that my computer could not read the disc. This is upsetting for many reasons, the first being the fact that I couldn’t make nice copies of my Coldplay disc but more importantly the potential repercussions this has on using computers to play music.

Imagine if I didn’t have a CD player anywhere else besides my computer? How would I be able to enjoy my Coldplay CD? Quite simply I would have no choice but to download the album to listen to it. At this point owning the disc is slightly immaterial and I might as well have downloaded the disc anyway.

So here’s the rub I guess: I’m not going to buy anymore CD’s if this is the way the music industry wants to treat us music owners. First we had Sony installing Rootkit software (which as far as I understand allowed them to log in to your computer) and now it just doesn’t work on a computer at all.

You know what, this is truly a case of the music industry being petrified and taking it out on the consumer. I find it highly ironic that an industry can be so callous to its consumers and still get away with it. While I’m not advocating piracy I’m totally boycotting the CD stores of our country until the music industry behind it gets real.

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