Amazon MP3 Beta disappointment

As mentioned before, it is not easy to get legal online music in Hong Kong. Forget iTunes store, Apple is not really interested in the Asian markets, Japanese not included. "Moov" is simply ridiculous as they are for Windoze users only. I've just heard from the podcast Macbreak Weekly that Amazon's MP3 store is up and running. Their initial response is rather positive. So I headed on to the Amazon site to take a look. Great! Lots of albums for me to choose from and the quality isn't bad at all. Most important of all, they are all DRM free. So, I tried to download Pavarotti's The Best. It's just about HK$70. I thought it was good deal as it would cost much more to buy the same CD at HMV. After downloading the Amazon "downloading program", I headed on to pay, but I couldn't. I simply couldn't. They insisted on asking me which "state" I reside in. For God's sake, I found out later that the MP3 songs are for US domestic purchase only. To be honest, I dun want to share my purchased DRM-free songs with some unknown users on the internet. I just want to get the damn songs. They just impose just stupid restriction. So, what did i do instead? I ended up getting the songs from another not quite legit source. What a bummer!!