Where do the song title names come from?

i just bought a cd off ebay, one which i believe was manufactured by the person who sold it to me, because i don't think the album was ever released on cd, only in mp3 form.
anyway, i put the cd in, and instead of the correct track listing coming up on itunes, each track listing had been replaced by a title which insults the artist who made the album.
i'm trying to find out if these new, insulting track names were somehow encoded by the album seller who manufactured the cd, or whether the names were encoded into itunes library of track names which were then matched up with the code of the tracks on the cd when i put it into my computer.
anyone know whats up?

For CDs, iTunes does a query to the Gracenote database to get the track info. Since Gracenote is user-updatable, somebody apparently put bogus data in for that particular CD.
To correct the info, right-click the track, Get Info, go to the Info tab and type in the correct info.

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