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Sound Decision - Interview: Shaun Iwase

Dear Jared,

Thank you for contacting the iTunes Music Store.

You can only purchase music from the iTunes Music Store that matches your country of residence and your billing address. Each country supports credit cards issued by banks in these countries. For example, a Visa card issued in the United States can only be used at the U.S. iTunes Music Store and so on.

In accordance with the contracts between Apple, the artists, and the record companies, the iTunes Music Store is available to customers who reside in the following countries:

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Sincerely,

The iTunes Music Store team

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Comments:
I am looking for non-US released music. when, if ever will we be able to purchase music from other country's stores? specifically i am personally after Japanese music. Mainly anime soundtracks and some j-pop artists. performing searches on this music reults in nothing most of the time. i've been unable to find any of the music in the US store. even searching on import titles i've bought at best buy.
A specific example of something bought at best buy is "Stand Alone Complex O.S.T. 2" it was distributed in North America by Bandai Entertainment, Inc.

The music is the same whether i buy an import, or if i got to a website like cdjapan.co.jp and buy the original. I would much prefer to save weeks of shippping time and buy them from the iTunes store. I've read about how much of a success the iTunes store has been in Japan. Now give me access to it. heck bill it all in ¥, i don't care. the credit card companies automatically convert it at the exchange rate at the time they get the transaction, i'm used to it.

But the same thing happens when i take my L'Arc-en-ciel "SMILE" or Yoko ishida "All of Me" cd's and stick them in my computer. i tunes pops up and lists them as Pop.

sorvani wrote:

But the same thing happens when i take my L'Arc-en-ciel "SMILE" or Yoko ishida "All of Me" cd's and stick them in my computer. i tunes pops up and lists them as Pop.

Were you searching in the US iTunes store? I can't find L'Arc or Ishida there.

Interesting interview, though it would have been nice to link the Rightsscale website so people could see all the artists currently available.

However, I think the Gomorning iTunes guide covers all of the Rightsscale releases, plus select others, for easier iTunes store browsing: http://gomorning.com/scene/itunes

Just as a side note Avex has quite a few artists available for download in the US iTunes store that are not listed on the above site. In particular ZZ has some great US specific best of albums that are a great value.