Buying music from other countries

Hi there, I've a problem with an album from India Arie I first found in the EEUU music store, but when I try to buy it, it says my account is only allowed to buy at the Spanish store (where I live), the problem is that this album is not available in the Spanish store, in fact, the albums are completely diferent from one country to another!!
Intel x86   Windows XP  

As I read the following post I understood the reason one can't buy outside one's country without a credit card from that country ....
The problem here is the licensing agreements that Apple (and other on-line media providers) have with the music industry. The music industry, in general, do not like the imports, but they cannot stop them. They can (and have) stopped the electronic version.
The problem is this: You have a band TheBand. TheBand are from the UK. They are represented by AnAgency (UK) and RecordLabel(UK). They want to break into the States, so they get an agent there AnAgency(USA) and a record company to distribute their records RecordLabel(USA).
So you see what the problem is. The USA companies do not want to lose any money due to people in the States buying these songs in the UK store. And the UK stores feel the same way.
They all force Apple to only allow sales to people with billing addresses in the relevant country.
This is a very simplified model - but does illustrate the theory...
I hope that helps

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