Purchasing songs from a country other than US

Bonjour! I am a French teacher who wants to download current french music to play in class. However, the real hits aren't offered on regular itunes US (even in the 'world' category) . I can access itunes France but it won't let my buy any of the music since this is not my registered country. I could not change my settings to "France" because it is associated with my billing address. I'm not sure if the issue is because the charge is in euros? I have no problems with this on amazon.com. Please help!
Merci

The issue of cross store purchasing comes up frequently so I'll just quote one of the most complete explanations (courtesy of Dave Sawyer) from the many given:
In order to buy from any given country's iTunes Music Store you must be able to show some form of residency which would be either:
a) a credit card with a billing address in that country, or
b) a mailing address 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 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. And this also applies to all the legal download stores that carry major-label content, not just the iTMS.

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