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DRM has always left a sour taste in my mouth. I sympathize with those whose tools ‘support’ DRM. I sympathize with music junkies who buy and buy from labels only to be betrayed with a broken product.

It has heretofore been a removed sympathy. I don’t buy a lot of CDs and what I do buy I try to buy from independant/smaller/DRM free labels. Where I do end up with a DRMed disc, I hardly notice as my software doesn’t ‘support’ it.

Then today I took a trip into a parallel universe. This trip was spurred by articles concerning Sony’s attrocities. I found my most recently favourite band, Switchfoot, is infected. I imagined the sorrow had I thought Switchfoot was for it. I’m glad the same article cited Switchfoot’s dismay and prevented rifting me from them.

I plunged into the parallel universe. There I buy CDs more than 1 or 2 a year. There I bought Switchfoot, Foofighters and other deranged Cds. I played them on my windows computer and it broke. I couldn’t use the music how I wanted. My computer got infected with more viruses than normal. My faith in the bands waned. My trust in CDs was betrayed. I came back shaken.

Back in this universe, I’m saddened that my ethics rival purchasing the infected switchfoot CD which very likely would have been CD #2 for this year’s 2.

Those of you on the music frontlines, you innocents taking shrapnel and crossfire, my heart goes out to you, more than ever.