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Like so many others I fell into the dreaded Sony DRM software snake pit. After popping My Morning Jacket “Z” into the computer I blindly accepted whatever stupid Sony/BMG EULA dialog that appeared. Big mistake. Fortunately my story didn’t reach the same horrific proportions of some. Thanks to J. Alex Halderman for providing a fix that allowed me to rip the songs to MP3. A few lessons learned: 1) Don’t trust weird DRM stuff from Sony or any other big music label; 2) Don’t trust any 3rd party software from no-name companies like SunnComm (apparently my new CD excitement caused me to temporarily lose my mind); 3) Turn off Autorun.
As for “Z” it’s getting better with every listen. Despite a hodgepodge of tempo and tone all the songs are held together by the reverberated voice of Jim James. Favorite tracks so far: “It Beats 4 U” with an eerie high plains drifter whistle at the end and “What a Wonderful Man.”
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