Hello, Mr. Battery-Eater...Goodbye, Extra $ (Ranting)

MUNCH..MUNCH..MUNCH...

That lovely little portable cd player that I bought the other month has so far turned out to have been more trouble than it's probably worth. It seems that this particular cd player continues to use up the batteries even while I'm not playing it, causing it to die almost immediately after I go to play a disc. This was foreign to me as it had never happened with any of my previous players. I suppose I'm going to have to resort to taking the batteries out each and everytime I finish using the cd player. What a pain!