I’ve just failed to buy a copy of the new Faithless album because they (or, more likely, their record company) have chosen not to make it available in CD format. There’s a foramt that looks like a CD and will probably play in most CD players, but it had a sticker on it saying that it was “copy protected”. This generally means that they have buggered around with the CD format in non-standard ways to prevent people from making MP3 (or, on my case, Ogg Vorbis) copies of the tracks.
Now I rip all of my CDs so that I can listen to them at my computer (which is, after all, where I spend most of my time) without having the actual CD present. If I can’t rip the CD then it’s useless to me and I won’t buy it.
So that’s a sale that they’ve lost. I bought CDs by The Streets and The Beta Band instead.
Are you planning on contacting the record company in some way to let them know that they’ve lost a sale due to their failure to provide real CDs? It’s a shame, I fancied buying that album…
Yeah. Thanks for reminding me. I’ve emailed info@faithless.co.uk and left a message on http://www.faithless.co.uk/forum_fr.html but I need to email the record company as well.