I noticed some of you said you would like owning the physical CD. Well thats the same with me, I like to own a physical CD. but I use itunes to sample songs at a cheap price before I go and buy the album/single at full price.
I know it's okay to step out of an element and buy songs by singers you've never listened too. But say they really suck and you've spent $11+ on them. That's like a LOT of money wasted.
I learned about Kanon Wakeshima, Kyoko, Ayaka and many artists by taking the chance of buying their material before hearing it. It's a good thing they were all good or that would be money wasted..
iTunes needs some sort of agreement with all the countries to share music.
If they can market Ayumi, Utada, Ayaka and other big names on iTunes America, then why can't they market say Aoyama Thelma, Nana Kitade, Girl Next Door, and other artists that aren't as big, but deserve just as much exposure?
It seems they have the agreement for some artists, but not all. I hope someday they can get things straight and truly share music everywhere. So many great artists will never be heard of due to the limit of certain music in certain countries.
Even Ayumi for example she just recently broke out in the US very UNDERGROUND success. Before nobody had ever heard of her, now I talk to all my friends and they are aware of who she is. Suddenly word of mouth is getting her better known in the US.. A friend of mine at school said they were teaching about Ayumi at their school. In ayumi's case in America shes gotten here by word of mouth, but many other artists won't have that same privilege, because of no way of knowing who they are to begin with. It has to start somewhere..
OH well lol, I'll stop arguing over iTunes, I doubt things will change anytime soon.
Anyway mostly I just wondered if anyone else had a similar feeling about it as i did. It's good to know that i'm not the only one whose atleast thought about it.