HT204053 2 separate iclouds on one computer

me and my wife just bought a new mac. We both have seperate user accounts and seperate itunes/icloud accounts... She downloaded her music from icloud into her itunes. I went to my account and tried to download my music/movies from my icloud into my itunes. It told me that Our computer was associated with an apple id, (my wifes?), and if i wanted to download from icloud I would have to wait 90 days to download from a different i cloud account. Is there away around this?
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For the avoidance of doubt, when you say you have each have different user accounts are you referring to user accounts as in system preferences >users & groups.

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