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NEWS: ITunes USA Offers Japanese Inventory


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Aresef



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 12:50 am Reply with quote
There are a lot of artists in those new sections that show up but don't yet have any albums listed. Wait until next Tuesday for the real flood.
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Shiki MSHTS



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 11:59 pm Reply with quote
Well... the dispite being unable to easily get any of the songs on the JiTms, the Podcasts are availiable for anyone, regardless of country. This has at least got me a bit occupied for a while anyway. =P

But I'd gladly pay the extra fee for some of those songs. I don't see it becoming an immidate possibility though. =/
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LordRobin



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 10:17 am Reply with quote
I just checked out the J-Pop selection at the US iTMS. Sure enough, there's a heck of a lot of artists listed. Unfortunately, none of them seem to have any songs available. What's up with that?

------RM
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Aresef



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 3:46 pm Reply with quote
LordRobin wrote:
I just checked out the J-Pop selection at the US iTMS. Sure enough, there's a heck of a lot of artists listed. Unfortunately, none of them seem to have any songs available. What's up with that?

------RM


Like I said, they're likely setting up for next Tuesday's weekly influx of new tunes.
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Abel



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 1:55 pm Reply with quote
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/aug/08itms.html
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radicaledward



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 2:06 pm Reply with quote
VoidJim wrote:
(p.s. don't blame Apple for this, it's the music company and distributors that don't want worldwide sales)
I don't think that I will ever understand this - I want to give them my money at full retail price, but they don't want it. So what do I do? I turn around and buy the CD off of eBay (takes longer though, and you have to be extreamly careful about bootlegged CDs).
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.Sy



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 6:50 pm Reply with quote
I also have no idea why they wouldn't want to expand their music inventory. Is there a copyright issue with the music artists or something? I don't see how it would hurt to just list some songs for people to download. We're paying for it.
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Shiki MSHTS



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 8:51 pm Reply with quote
I believe it tracks back down to the recording labels acctually. I'm not entirely sure though.
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Invidia



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:42 pm Reply with quote
Can I buy songs from the Japanese store if I got an iTunes prepaid card from Japan? Has anyone outside of Japan tried this?
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Aresef



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 2:06 pm Reply with quote
Invidia wrote:
Can I buy songs from the Japanese store if I got an iTunes prepaid card from Japan? Has anyone outside of Japan tried this?


You need to have a Credit Card to start an account anyway.
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jpopotaku



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:43 am Reply with quote
Yes I've tried it and bought several albums through the Japanese store. I got my cards from http://www.jpopmp3s.com.
They send you the card number within hours, I even got one back in 5 minutes once.
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