Bloody Amazon Bloody Territories bloody exchange rates

Rick Stirling

Sorry, rant, ignore me.

The new Tim Fite album "Fair Ain't Fair" is 13ishUS dollars on Amazon.com and 13ish UK pounds on Amazon.co.uk (that's 25 dollars at the exchange rate).

But amazon do digital downloads! It's only $9 as an MP3 album (and lets face it, I'd be ripping it as soon as I got it). Except - digital downloads are limited to the US only.

Cockmonkeys.

dfacto

Well, you could always just pirate it and send Tim Fite a check for $9. :P

Mark Dygert

Straight across!? What dream world are they living in? Thats total crap.

Ferg

dfacto wrote: »

Well, you could always just pirate it and send Tim Fite a check for $9. :P

I had to do a double take after realizing how much sense that actually made

danr

what are these, region-specific CDs now?

jeramy79

You could see if you can access Amazon.com from www.hidemyass.com. They can't read your IP if you go that way, so it might not register as OCONUS.

MoP

Yeah, you could probably get a bouncer to spoof the IP and make it look like you're buying from the USA, should be able to download then.

greenj2

dfacto wrote: »

Well, you could always just pirate it and send Tim Fite a check for $9. :P

Ferg wrote: »

I had to do a double take after realizing how much sense that actually made

I've thought about doing the same thing when faced with similar bullshit trying to acquire music legit'. The only downside I can think of is that the artist doesn't get the +1 recorded sale attributed to their name. Although I don't know the ins and outs of music distribution so don't know how important that is. Would artists generally prefer recorded sales over extra $$$?

aesir

not that i dont like the sentiment, but you'd be fucking over a lot of smaller people like the songwriters if you did that.

super_villain

This sounds so easy to me. Why don't you just fly to the U.S., download the music at some internet cafe, then fly back. Might wanna get a few more songs while you are here to make it worth the trip. Sorry to hear they make it so difficult.

Sage

Rick don't you have a buddy in the US willing to download this for you and you send them the money? Considering how the British pound is compared to the US dollar I think that is a load of crap.

Alex

hawken

can you not get it on iTunes?

Rick Stirling

Yeah, iTunes does it - the point was it was a rant

Firstly a rant about exchange rates, and secondly a rant about region locking downloads.

I do often buy from Amazon.com and have the items shipped, and it galls me that it is cheaper to buy an item abroad and ship it than it is to buy it locally.

Ach, I'm still sore about the whole Rockband thing.