How can I read GameCube disks on my PC?

[Vipershark]

Checking google brought this up:
http://forums.dolphin-emulator.com/thread-2900.html

It looks like it's -possible-, but you have to have a DVD drive that supports it.

Honestly, it'd be much easier to just get another gamecube (or buy a wii since it seems that the price would be pretty much the same by how you described it)

Even if you could get the discs to work, there's the whole problem of your computer having to be powerful enough to run them in the first place.