Quality of Madonna "Hung Up" Song Bad

I recently bought the new Madonna single "Hung Up" on the iTunes store, and am really disappointed with the quality of the sound. It sounds like the song is highly compressed. The music often sounds muddy when the instrumentation gets louder or more complex, and it's very noticeable to me.
Has anyone else that purchased this song noticed this?
I hope this isn't an indicator of the quality of the full album when released, because if so, I will cancel my pre-order and just buy the CD when it comes out. I'm surpirsed the quality of the digital recording in iTunes is so bad for a major artist like Madonna.

Oh, really? Okay, I guess that might explain it. It sounds like when you play a song really loud on crappy speakers. Must be bad sound engineering in the recording, then.
On a similar note, I notice that Amazon is selling the new Madonna "Confessions" CD for $10.99, two dollars cheaper than in iTunes. Usually, iTunes has the cheaper prices for full albums, so, I don't understand why iTunes isn't more price-competitive, considering all the restrictions and lower-quality sound of music bought from iTunes.

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