Just bought my first downloaded album and it

[J*E*Cole]

sucks! Got it off iTunes, and am just really disappointed with the sound quality of this purchase. I paid $10.89 for an album of 11 cuts, and basically it sounds very compressed, with a distinct loss of upper high end and a muddled low end. I burned it to a Maxell music cd-r, and have so far only played it thru my H/K DVD22, and I know my system sounds better than this, I switched to some different store bought cd's and it sounded like it usually does, anyhoo, don't think I'll be doing this again. I thought that some time ago I downloaded just a couple of tunes and burned them to a cd, and they were actually kinda impressive sounding, not quite store bought, but OKAY, ya know? Tomorow I'm gonna buy the same album at the store, and see if I can tell a difference.

So anyone have similar exp. or perhaps a better one?

What did I do wrong?

Could it just be a badly recorded album?

Thanks for any input at ALL, I really thought this would make buying music easy and fast, but if it always sounds like this, then it's not worth it.