Music problems

I recently had to copy my CDs to a new laptop due to : oldlaptopdisaster : It's a netbook so it doesn't have a CD drive, but I got hold of an external CD drive to do the copying. Every single disc I had copied just fine except for my Smiths albums. The sound quality is atrocious, it's so garbled and static-y that the music is barely discernable in b4 music taste diss. I'm not a tech head, I just about get by, so I'm pretty damn confused. The CDs are almost pristine, and since I copied them to my old laptop without complaint I fail to see why I should have trouble now. Any ideas?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Oh man, that sucks I can't really afford another one. It copies other CDs fine though, just dislikes the Smiths. I'm honestly thinking it might be worth just torrenting the albums since I've already bought them, just can't access them!

There's nowhere I can't reach.

It works well enough. I used one of the albums in a CD player recently (ie. after being unable to copy it) and it played with no problems. Would you still recommend I make an image file and try it that way? I was thinking of taking the old copied files off my broken laptop and just transferring them across with a USB pen or even just my mp3 player, but I won't be able to do that for a month or so. I'm still bloody confused about why my new laptop/CD drive won't copy a perfectly functional disc that works/will copy elsewhere though.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.