I can't import two new CDs to iTunes on my iMac

I purchased two CDs from Barnes & Noble: Steve Miller Band - Greatest Hits 1974-78 and Mylo Kyloto (by Coldplay). I tried to import them to iTunes 10 on my 20" iMac running OS X Lion, but the following error appears:
The file "____" cannot be converted.
You don't have write access to your iTunes Media folder or a
older within it. To change permissions, select your iTunes Media
folder in the Finder, and choose File > Get Info.
What should I do to change the setting to allow the CDs to rip? Or is this just some type of new DRM on CDs (they're both Capitol Records CDs)?

The error message would seem to be self explanatory. iTunes can't write to the folders the albums should live in on your hard drive so it gives up. Have you moved the drive between systems recently, that is often a cause? Either way you should repair permissions on the drive. Not quite sure what the parallel is on a Mac but on Windows you'd make sure both your account and SYSTEM have full access to the iTunes folder and all its subfolders, and that nothing was marked as Read-Only.
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