quote:Originally posted by Mair:
we, in the UK, can't buy anything from the Music Store yet! We've been promised that if it succeeds in the US it will be available in Europe by the end of the year.
I am assuming Mair that you mean the availability of the itunes music store in Europe because hopefully by the end of the year one way or another you wil be able to get your hands on an actual CD. See reference on another topic to cookingvinyl
Dan and Mair and other Brits reading this
If what Mair was told is correct I doubt if you will want to "wait until the end of the year" especially to then have to pay the inflated UK CD price. Maybe the friendly HMV folks on Oxford street could be persuaded to get you an imported copy at the high price.So no doubt you will then consider ordering on-line from a US supplier. In this regard you might like to hear my experience back in 1999 when the songbook (box set) appeared. I ordered from an outfit in Florida that at the time Rik Stevans had a commission link to on his "GL Tribute" web site Songbook was released on a Tuesday but no store was allowed to ship until the day before. So my box set actually left Florida
sometime Monday evening, by UPS. they e-mailed me tracking number and with mounting excitement I was able to track it from Florida to a UPS US hub then to their UK depot at Castle Donnington (East Midlands Airport, England) and was absolutely thrilled to receieve it at my office in Dorset on Wednesday before midday.A fact I reported promptly to the Newsgroup:-
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e....svr.pol.co.uk
So keep an eye out here for reports on sightings on one of the US stores CD Now/ CD Universe/Amazon etc. preferably not CD Universe. although I very quickly got the Classic Masters CD from them I requested the Bear Family Sunday Concert Plus for Christmas but they let my wife down repeatedly and she finally got it from Amazon in time for my birthday last week
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