East meets East
I have twice tried to buy Nigel Kennedy and The Kroke Band’s East Meets East in Apple’s iTunes Store.
The first time, most of the tracks were full of pops and clicks and Apple gave me a refund and asked me to retry in 3 weeks, by which time they would either have fixed the problem or withdrawn the CD if they couldn’t. Four weeks later the download contained identical errors and Apple refunded the price a second time and told me they would inform me when the problem was fixed. That was on June 28th, since then I’ve heard no more.
Now, I have ordered the CD on eBay through Ihr-Klassiker, which will cost me 15 Euro instead of €9.99 at iTunes, or €19.99 at Amazon, but I am hopeful that the CD won’t be as badly scratched as Apple’s copy – and of course I won’t have to burn it to a CD to remove Apple’s Digital Rights Management 