Wow.. I was listening to my Pandora radio station (cool idea, btw) and heard some music by an artist named "Gotye". Ok, so I like it well enough to explore more of their music and ask Pandora to load up iTunes and search for this artist.
Zip results.
So I Google Gotye, find out they are a new band from Oz, and they have a MySpace page. I go to MySpace and there is a reference to something called "the Australian iTunes store".
Bugger.. I cannot believe that Apple is so stupid as to limit access to music to certain markets! I was able to click through, and sure enough, iTunes was able to change my location to Oz and I found a nice album of their music.
Haven't determined whether I can purchase it just yet but it's ridiculous that but for serendipity (and my diligence in search) I would have missed the fact that there are other stores for iTunes.
Egad.. now I need to go see what's in the British store as well..
Posted by artandscience at September 12, 2007 05:13 AM