Recovery email address cannot be my email address?

So, iTunes is asking me to enter a "Rescue Email Address", which will be used to send me instructions should security issues arise.  Fine.  I enter my email address, and it gives me the error saying my rescure email address cannot be my email address.
Uh... what?!
How the heck am I supposed to use the recovery email feature if my recovery email address cannot be my email address?  I'm supposed to have password recovery info sent to someone else and have them forward it to me?!
Oh, and it won't let me actually buy anything or even download anything for free from iTunes until I set this up.  Great.  I used to love using the iTunes Store, but alas, I'm locked out now, until I figure how to enter my email address without entering my email address.  I'll do that once I have both tea and no tea...

Ah, good, I found a work-around.  Since I use a Gmail address, and Gmail treats "thisthat" and "this.that" as the same email address, I was able to fool iTunes into thinking my email address was not my email address, and this allowed it to accept it as my email address.
This is the most spectacularly stupid requirement for a rescue email address I've ever heard of, but at least I can use iTunes again...

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