Poor quality downloaded music

I recently downloaded Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly's new album and the last few tracks of the album sounded very bad and jumped a lot. It was as if it was a scratched CD and it jumped, skipped and in some cases missed whole chunks of the song! I tried to download the same bad songs again (paying further money) and the newly downloaded songs sounded the same. This happens when I play the songs on my iPod so it is not my macbook speakers. Does anyone else have this? Or how can I get my money back? Or get the songs in good condition? Please help anyone with any knowledge!

Hi,
I've just purchased the same album and the exact same thing is happening to me.
I tried afterwards to listen to the preview on Itunes Store, and actually you can the clicking sound in the song "Better Things"
But I'll try contact apple through the link in the receipt..
Good Luck
//Dressle

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