diff --git a/beetsplug/discogs.py b/beetsplug/discogs.py
index c4660ae76..80b7ae3df 100644
--- a/beetsplug/discogs.py
+++ b/beetsplug/discogs.py
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ USER_AGENT = u'beets/{0} +http://beets.radbox.org/'.format(beets.__version__)
 
 # Exceptions that discogs_client should really handle but does not.
 CONNECTION_ERRORS = (ConnectionError, socket.error, httplib.HTTPException,
-                     ValueError)  # JSON decoding raises a ValueError.
+                     ValueError,  # JSON decoding raises a ValueError.
+                     DiscogsAPIError)
 
 
 class DiscogsPlugin(BeetsPlugin):