Can I burn to an audio CD album bought online?

I just recently bought a couple of albums, can I burn them on an audio CD to listen to them elsewhere?

Do you want a technical answer or the legal side?
I see you've already been given a technical option so here's the quote from the little book I read on I-Pods.
'It's not illegal to copy as long as obtained legitimately, for your own use, and do not copy to a friends computer or I-Pod.' (shown on page 15).
If your interested the book is called Rough Guide To I-Pods (ISBN No. 1-84353-723-0). Showing as C$13.99.
John

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Which leads me to my next question; this thing about only burning from iTunes now... is that a restriction set by Toast or by Quicktime? Or both? Because I read somewhere that QT7 prevents you from burning. Somewhere else I read you can still burn using Toast 6.0.1.
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By the way, just because you buy a CD or "Tune" doesn't make it "yours." How would you feel if you produced a track, went through a copyright process, and everyone who paid $1 for it had legal rights to it? Yes you own a copy of others music but it doesn't give you the right to mass produce it and/or distribute or sell it. DJ's like us are always skirting the line between copyright infringement and remix / alteration rights. I mean we get paid for playing other people's music right? Copyrights are there to protect artists against that scenario exactly. OK (stepping down from my soap box now)
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This rant has nothing to do with iTunes
It has everything to do with iTunes. Converting a song to MP3 should be as simple as right-clicking and choose Convert to MP3 or something similar. How does it NOT have to do with iTunes? iTunes is both a store where i purchased the ******* music I can't use, and an app that makes it dismayingly difficult to use those same tunes.
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