Buying Songs From Other Countries On iTMS. It’s no secret that record companies like to sell different material in different countries. A quick comparison of various global Amazon sites versus the import section of your favorite local record store will give you a taste of what you’re missing. Slate has an interesting, Japan-focused article detailing some of the cool tunes you haven’t had a chance to hear. They also post an innovative work-around used by iTMS customers for instant gratification:
While iTunes Japan pegs foreign undesirables from their credit card numbers, it can’t screen fake Japanese addresses provided by prepaid iTunes Card users. There’s a small but ardent underground economy among Americans in dummy addresses and e-mailed scans of Japanese iTunes Cards, picked up by friends in Tokyo convenience stores or openly sold online.
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It’s an interesting workaround, but not terribly practical for the general public. It’s ironic that the idiocy of the record labels in trying to restrict people from buying music based on where they live can easily be defeated by simply downloading the music without paying from one of the many pirate site.
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