Don't buy the new Sloan CD (A Sides Win: Singles 1992-2005)

So yesterday I was at J's place, just watching Beatles DVDs and listening to some tunes. That day he bought the new Sloan greatest hits album, A Sides Win: Singles 1992-2005, and when he popped it into his computer it started playing garbled noise. At the same time a message popped up telling him he needed a licence to listen to this content, and that he had to connect to the Internet to download special keys to get asccess to his music.

After struggling with the thing for 10 minutes or so it still wouldn't work.

Fuck you, Sloan, you sold out. Do you know what someone ends up doing when you screw over your listeners like that when all they want to do is listen to their music the way they want to and not by having to connect to the Internet each time and use some retarded custom program? They go on Bittorrent and download the thing just like they would have had they stolen it.

So people are using the tools of piracy to get around the restrictons put on them try and curtail piracy.

The sooner the record industry collapses in on itself the better. When you start treating your customers like criminals your customers will drop any remaining loyalty to you and go elsewhere.
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