Are there any other outlets you can use, like 7Digital?
http://www.7digital.com
Based in the UK, so the chances are better.

Yes! Thank you! You sign up, they take cc or PayPal, and let you download an album directly as a zip file with mp3s at 320 kbps. The whole thing took less than a minute, and that includes signing up for an account. The prices are in GBP and way higher than Amazon or other places (0.99 GBP is about $1.5 per track), but at least it works exactly the way it should.

How about Rhapsody? I don't think you need to be signed up to buy tracks, and it doesn't look like it uses Amazon for the checkout.
http://mp3.rhapsody.com

Unfortunately, no go. US-only and they require a monthly subscription.

I'll burn $1.98 and get TWO copies, then send you one. That ought to be close enough!

Already obtained the track for tranglos from Amazon. 

I'm in the U.S. as well if anyone needs any help like this in the future.

I've done just as bad or worse when laws have gotten in the way of common sense.

Marek,

Let me know what you need - anytime - and I'll get it to you. Shouldn’t be this hard for you!

Jim

Amazon UK does mp3 music too. Maybe they are more liberal. If you download a track into a shared dropbox folder, does dropbox makes the infringement as it copies your song onto the dropbox of another user?

BUT, in their eyes, it is criminal.

In their eyes humming a tune in the park is criminal.

Quote from: db90h on February 09, 2012, 01:13 PM

BUT, in their eyes, it is criminal.

In their eyes humming a tune in the park is criminal.

Pretty much. They've gone after cover bands playing local bar venues. And I'm not talking full out tribute bands either. Just people covering a general mix songs.

Someone with big concern about this is the jazz performance world where improvisation is the name of the game.

When improvising, it's a common and accepted practice to quote bits and pieces of other people's songs and solos when you're preforming your own. Nothing new here. This is how jazz has been played since day one. A jazz player is expected to master a vocabulary of themes, riffs, and 'standard' songs as part of their learning the idiom - and to be able to know how and when to use them. But now, there's a very real worry that everything jazz used to be about may be coming to a close with the ridiculous extremes that copyright rules are getting pushed to.

First it started with record companies sometimes putting restrictions on who a player was allowed to "sit in" with - which is another thing jazz is about since, at its core, it's a live-performance artform that thrives on the cross-fertilization playing with other musicians provides.

Now, some record labels are beginning to feel the need to put the music they hold (under contract) in silos as well...

Talk about bad acid!