Contraband, Velvet Revolver, Audio CD, downloads, mp3, books, bookstore, dvd, video store, posters.

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Opinion of raketakias from Canyon, TX USA

Now to address the point of the copyright. I agree that it is ridiculus not be able to rip a cd for one's own purposes, especially after you PAID for it. I listen to this constantly on my mp3 player when I weight lift. When I am chilling I'd rather listen to something more subtle, so in that respect they did a very poor job in making it "portable". There is a way around this though - do a google internet search for "Analysis of the MediaMax CD3 Copy-Prevention System" and you will find your answer :)

Editorial Review

Scott Weiland. Slash. Duff McKagen. Matt Sorum. It doesn't seem like a good idea to put these people in a room together, let alone a band. But it was the same exact explosive element of danger and low I.Q. scores that made both of these players' former groups--Stone Temple Pilots and Guns N' Roses--sell billions, so why stand in their way? The music on Contraband sounds appropriately monumental, all window-quivering riffs, and ticker-tape parade choruses. "Do It For the Kids" and "Set Me Free" take direct inspiration from Nirvana, meaning they are brilliantly raw, raucous, and indecent. It's great stuff. The power-ballads like "Fall to Pieces" and "You Got No Right," however, are more heartburn than heartbreak when compared to past achievements like, oh, let's say "Sweet Child O' Mine."