I also ordered The Thrills' So Much For The City, after Amazon's website didn't say anything about it being anything other than a Red Book-compliant CD (in contrast, having a warning for the last Radiohead album). Perhaps the EU release came out last year and was kosher, I thought. Lo and behold, I opened the package to find the "Copy Controlled" stigmata. I'm going to return the disc unopened, with a note complaining about deliberately defective merchandise. Fuck you very much, EMI.
CD purchases
I also ordered The Thrills' So Much For The City, after Amazon's website didn't say anything about it being anything other than a Red Book-compliant CD (in contrast, having a warning for the last Radiohead album). Perhaps the EU release came out last year and was kosher, I thought. Lo and behold, I opened the package to find the "Copy Controlled" stigmata. I'm going to return the disc unopened, with a note complaining about deliberately defective merchandise. Fuck you very much, EMI.
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