Where Do You Find Your Foreign Music?

Midnight Thunder asks: "There issue of music downloads, and paying for your music, has been discussed many time before here on Slashdot. Generally when you head down to your local music store you are limited to a choice of music adapted to your local market. I tend to find that trying to get hold of non-English music, here in North America, from sources other than P2P file sharing is almost impossible. What do you do if you heard a track on a streaming internet music station, or from a friend with an MP3 version, that is not available in your country, what do you do to get a 'legitimate' copy of the track and reward the artist?"

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Most of My Stuff is Imported - On Vinyl

[szyzyg]

I'm lucky enough to live in San Francisco where the music scene is very DJ orientated - so there's plenty of places that import records from all over the world - but mainly europe. Sometimes I can pick imports up at groovetech.com or satelliterecords.com - but I find that it's ultimately faster and more reliable to go straight to the source - Juno.co.uk distributes almost everything dance music related from europe. And For DJ's the advantage of getting stuff straight from Europe is that I end up playing tracks a good few weeks before my 'competitors' in the DJ scene.

I've just started doing a weekly radio show, and we have a big focus on new music. I'm not well enough known to get on the mailing lists of record labels, so I have to stay ahead of the game using juno.

Bur first...

[Mark Hood]

where are the great streaming music stations? A few recommendations of where to listen might help - the more who hear this sort of music, the more people will bother their local media outlets to carry it!