Hypocritical?

A while ago, after listening to the Wired Rip. Sample. Mash. Share. CD I downloaded a load of My Morning Jacket tracks from Soulseek because I’d quite liked the track One Big Holiday and wondered if I’d like any of their other stuff.

I liked their stuff enough that Mahgeetah was listed in the top 5 songs I don’t yet own (as an aside, I’ve since bought Cake’s Fashion Nugget and Maxi Geil & Playcolt’s A Message To My Audience which ticks off another two of the tracks).

So I was quite pleased to see My Morning Jacket’s It Still Moves album on sale for a fiver today in Fopp. And even happier to see that track 1 is Mahgeetah. So I now own a copy. Only I can’t listen to it. At least not on my computer. I hadn’t noticed when I bought it, but it’s copy protected.

So they’re trying to prevent the very thing which caused me to buy a copy of their album, and have just caused me additional hassle before I can listen to it as I’ll have to download the whole album again from Soulseek so I can add it to my collection… DOH!