Slate article on iTunes being country-specific: The insanely great songs Apple won't let you hear.
Talks a lot about the Japanese music scene....
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Meanwhile, a back door has appeared in the Music Store itself: 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.
Wonder if this works for other countries....
If ever a song cried to be played on late and lamented The O.C., it's "4645" by the Radwimps.
Oooh, I love that band name: The Radwimps.
From tommy's link:
You can find an EP of Scottish sensations the Fratellis at iTunes United States, for instance, but their hit glam singalong "Chelsea Dagger" is in nearly every country except the United States.
I got it on my iPod. It's on a compilation CD I bought from HMV's UK Web site.
I got it on my iPod. It's on a compilation CD I bought from HMV's UK Web site.
Oooh! You want to post that at BR?
I need more glam singalongs.
So if you had to have one blues album - just one - you might think you should start with B.B. King or Muddy Waters or Howling' Wolf or Robert Johnson or Sonny Boy Williamson. Or possibly Elmore James or Skip James or Blind Willie McTell or Lightning Hopkins. Maybe T-Bone Walker or Buddy Guy or Robert Cray or Junior Kimbrough or Roy Buchanan or RL Burnside. (Or if you're Corwood, Hound Dog Taylor.)
But I think you might want to have West Side Soul by Magic Sam.
I had to shut that off after 31 seconds to prevent my brain from exploding.
Air. Guitar.
Ugh.
Yeah, I couldn't make it much past a minute.
It didn't help that was singing the song in pornface. I think that CD has been reading too many Greg Land comics.
