Get used to it folks, this is they way things are going unless you talk to your representatives and let them know that, hey, you don't want the entertainment industry dictating what you can and can't do to you.
Fair use? Use it while you can, The INDUCE act will trample all over this one. Oh, and don't bypass that copy-protection to rip your legally purchased music to copy over to your iPod, something the 1984 Betamax case allows you to do (for now) because the DMCA pretty much makes that illegal as well.
Now, I don't normally advocate piracy, but in the case of corrupt CDs I most certainly do. PIRATE corrupt CDs. Show the execs that corrupt CDs do not sell.
Better yet, buy the CD (if it is not CLEARLY labeled as being protected and may have problems playing in some computers) and take it back to get your refund.
Even better, put some
stickers on the CDs in the rack at the store!