Green's Dictionary of Slang

[victor steinbok]

Wilson, you can find UK, De, Fr proxy servers that would allow you to
use services local to those countries--as it is, iTunes recognizes
your actual location and selects the material copyrighted for it. If
you can fool the servers into believing you're somewhere else, you
might be able to get more.

VS-)

On 9/23/10, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>
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>> This is actually nice piece of news. Even with international shipping
>> charges, ordering the volume from AmazonUK is likely to save you well
>> over 1/3 of the cost. Unless AmazonUS offers a similar discount, that's
>> well worth the extra wait for the shipment.
>
> Hear! Hear!
>
> I also heartily agree with the (implied) suggestion that it pays to
> shop around among all units of Amazon, not only for price, but also
> for, e.g. hard-to-find material on minority languages. That book on
> French Basque(s) unknown to AmazonUS may well be readily available
> from AmazonFr. Youneverknow.
>
> Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be possible to game iTunes that way.
> A startling amount of American R&B, blues, rockabilly, and C&W from my
> youth, childhood, and even earlier, which I collect as a retirement
> hobby, not held by iTunesUS *is* held by iTunesUK, iTunesGe, and even
> by iTunesJa, but you can't download it to the US.
>
> Hm! As I wrote that, it occurred to me that I haven't tried to cop
> from the mp3 sections of overseas Amazons, yet. Who knows? Worth
> looking into. Youneverknow.
>
> --
> -Wilson
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> –Mark Twain
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