Amazon music - MP3 download quality is mediocre, will stick with iTunes -

Maybe is is just a coincidence that the music I was buying is old and was probably transferred from CD, but I made my first Amazon MP3 purchase yesterday and I could hear compression skips and other signs of low audio quality. I have always been a skeptic and only recently started to buy iTunes music as opposed to buying CDs and ripping them into my iPhone (for mobile listening - I prefer studio-quality listening at home). I now consider the $8.99 I paid for the music to be just the price of convenience… I will still try and find the physical CD and buy it, thus paying twice for the same album.