I accept no responsibility for anyone's actions
as a result of reading this crazy post.

I found an old Beck CD on the sidewalk one day several years ago,
and although it was is scratched to sheeaught,
I was amazed that it played in my CD player with no skipping.

Now as a test I tried extracting it with EAC,
and I was dissapointed that I couldn't extract the last 2 tracks.
...so here's what I did.
I took out an old undershirt and the brass polish
to see if I could "polish" the disc up a bit.
I know it sounds silly,
but my thinking was that I could wear down the plastic
so that some of the scratches were not as bad
and maybe EAC would be able to "get over it".

The brass polish kind of scratches the disc as you rub it in,
but the scratches it makes are very fine and
I suspect EAC is not affected by it.
The result - perfect wav files.
Now I can reburn it onto a brand new disc.

I am not guaranteeing this will work on your scratched CD's
and I have only even tried this on one CD,
I'm off to try it on some of my other scratched CD's
that skip and cannot be ripped.

I'll let you all know how it goes.