I didn't want to skew the rating for this album by giving it one star because the album itself is pretty good. It's no where near the quality of music that Badlands was but if you're a Ray Gillen fan this album is important none the less. My issue is with this issue of the cd that amazon is ripping people off with. I can't imagine that it's a licensed copy. I've heard the original 1994 release of this cd & of course it's very hard to find. So I got this version... what a complete ripoff!!!!!! It's a crappy CD-r copy that sounds like a disc was made from low bitrate MP3s & the album art is an awful copy that looks like it's 5th generation or something. My disc was new in a wrapper but yet skips. To top it all off... with amazon's return policy they won't return or exchange because it has been opened even though it's obviously defective. I used to be a huge amazon fan & bought CDs here all the time. But after this fiasco I doubt I'll ever buy anything here again. Pitiful!!!!!!!!!!