I checked out a CD/DVD drive from the library because I thought I had ripped a lot of my CDs, but there are more left than I thought. And with an external drive, I can just use my modern computer instead of breaking out the ol' 2006 MacBook.
I don't even have Master of Puppets! I feel like I hear it all the time, but I think it's more that I used to hear it all the time and forgot to check if I was still hearing it all the time. Also, I play Battery on guitar every week or so.
Ripping is pretty smooth these days. You `apt-get install abcde`, then uncomment the output format line in `~/.abcde`, then it's just `abcde -o mp3`.