Importing itunes songs from one user to another on same mac

This is probably a simple one. My son has bought an album from the itunes store and I want to import it into my itunes library on the same mac (not that I can stand most of the stuff he listens to!). I assume I can do that, but when I go to import files and go to his music folder on the mac HD there is a no entry icon on it and I can't access it....
Thanks!

His Music folder permissions by default prevent others from opening it.
You could manually copy (not move, copy) the album of interest to a location such as the Shared Folder where you would have read privileges. Then you could import it into your iTunes Library.
However if the music is DRM protected you will still not be able to play it.
Another method would be to burn an Audio CD of the album and import that into your library.

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