I bought the songs again, but still...

It is my opinion that if you have already bought a CD and over time find that one or more of the tracks has become damaged and will not play properly due to age and other causes, you should be able to get the songs you lost back for free.  (I'm looking at you CDs it looks like I burned a tiny hole in even when you have never been anywhere near a lighter and have only ever resided in a case or a CD player.)  I mean, yes, you can buy individual songs nowadays, but still, you already paid for the song once.  Why should you have to pay for it again?  Yes, you could argue that you could get the songs you lost from friends who also own them, but what if you don't know anyone who does?  That's when you really start to get desperate and think, "Well, it's not so bad.  If I really clean the surface it sort of plays.  Most of the time.  During a full moon.  When Venus aligns with Jupiter and Mars joins them to form an isosceles triangle.  And only after a snow storm.  In March."  No, you shouldn't have to do that.  You should be able to listen to those songs as they were intended to be listened to.  You should be able to type in the UPC or some other identification number and get the lost songs back.  I wouldn't even mind it if you could only get a song back once, or if the number of songs you got back was recorded and if you abused the system you would be banned forever because I wouldn't abuse it.  I just want to be able to listen to "Nessun Dorma" without it sounding like there's a helicopter landing nearby.  That's all I really want.  I just want the song back because I bought it and it should be mine.  To date I've had to buy individual songs from two CDs that I own, and it would have been four except I managed to temporarily fix the problems on the other two with a Magic Eraser and some Goo Gone (and I'd like to say right away that I don't recommend it.  I only did it because neither of the CDs had cost a lot, both were nearly unplayable, and had it not worked, I wouldn't have been able to listen to them anyway, so there really wasn't any risk involved).  I just think that it would be nice if I didn't have to go to extreme measures or plunk down more money just to get the songs I had already bought once before back.  I think it could also create a lot of goodwill, which the music industry seems to be lacking, but that's just my opinion.  Of course, I'm sure that this music retrieval service idea of mine will never happen because there would be those who abuse the program.  (I'm not even going to say that there might be people who would abuse it because I know that there will be.  There always are.)  Still, a gal can dream, can't she?