Change country of registration without losing iTunes Match

Hi,
I have recently moved from the UK to Australia for 6 months, and just before I left I took out a subscription to iTunes Match thinking that would be a good way of not losing my 19000 song collection (through luggage losses, or electromagnetic radiation to hard drives, or whatever). Now that I'm here I want to change my country of registration so that I can get local apps in the app store. However, when I try to do this I get an error message saying I have to unsubscribe to iTunes Match to do so! I've only just taken out the subscription and totally don't want to do this!! Are there any workarounds for this problem?
Thanks all,
Fulvio

No, there is no "workaround." I would suggest that since you are only going to be in Australia for a short period of time just continue to use your UK store account. You still have an address and bank in the UK, yes? It will be fine. Do not bother with the hassle of trying to completely change iTunes stores just for 6 months.

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