Purchase from different Store

I am subscribed to iTunes Music Store Switzerland. Unfortunately I could not find an album in my store (LU - 'Album'), but instead I found it in the USA-store. Wanting to purchase, I automatically got directed back to the Swiss store (from where I cannot buy the album wanted!). How can I download the wanted album?
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.7)

This has been covered here literally dozens of times, but once again: the content owners do not allow cross-border sales from any of the legal download stores. You must therefore have legal residence in the country of the iTunes Store you wish to use. So in order to buy from another country's iTunes Store, you must (as proof of residence) have either:
a) a credit card issued by a bank in that country with a billing address also in that country, or
b) a mailing address for your residence in that country and a gift certificate or a prepaid card that was bought in that country.
If you cannot fulfill one of these two sets of conditions, you will not be able to purchase from any given country's iTMS.
This, again, is due to restrictions placed on Apple by the record companies and other rights holders (who are often completely different from country to country and so all require their own individual negotiations and contracts), not by Apple's choice.
So unless and until the owners of the rights to that album for Switzerland grant Apple the rights to sell it there, you'll have to buy the CD.
Forum Tip: Since you're new here, you've probably not discovered the Search feature available on every Discussions page, but next time, it might save you time (and everyone else from having to answer the same question multiple times) if you search a couple of ways for a topic, both in the relevant forums, in the User Tips Library and in the Apple Knowledge Base before you post a question.
Regards.

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