Saturday, September 25, 2010

How do you say "Fuck the record industry" in French?

So, farewell then, qobuz.com. It was nice to have, for a while, a viable alternative to iTunes. My French isn't good enough to warrant spending much time on the editorial content, but it's a nice site, with good ideas like 20% off new releases for the first 10 days.
Alas, many, many attempts to buy music from qobuz are now ending in:
Cet article n'est pas encore disponible en téléchargement dans votre pays (Ireland)
which the site helpfully translates:
This article is not available in your country yet (Ireland)
or, more essentially:
The record industry does not approve of your country (Ireland)
Yes, it's the 4 major labels, of course, who have decided that Irish euros are unacceptable. But it's not just the majors - some of the independents don't like us either. I'm not sufficiently interested to explore which ones still consider me kosher. Still, I'm used to it at this stage - no Amazon, no Spotify, no Guvera, no Lala. It's a great shame to have one of the few classical download avenues closed off.
Oh well. In the immortal words of gary.ramsey (in-joke for eMusic stalwarts), I'm going back to iTunes.

3 comments:

jacked UP jazz said...

Well its not in french but this might help:

http://jackedupjazz.blogspot.com/2010/08/and-horse-you-rode-in-on.html

Nereffid said...

Magnificent! Thanks.

jacked UP jazz said...

Glad to help.

Maybe you recommend an unreconstructed version of this little ditty. I think I would like to download the original for reference purposes.