(source: http://xkcd.com/488/)
Why is it so hard to legally obtain DRM-free music in the UK? Amazon, in the US, has offered DRM-free music downloads for a long time now. However their UK site doesn’t (and they don’t let you order music from the US-based site unless you are a US citizen). Tesco (www.tescodigital.com) offers some DRM-free stuff, but the site requires Windows clients and is slow and poorly designed. iTunes did start to offer some DRM-free stuff, but (a) it was more expensive and (b) the selection, when I last looked, was pitifully small.
Someone recently tipped me off to www.7digital.com, which sells DRM-free MP3s in the UK. It’s a good site – recommended!
…and now of course Amazon UK have finally started selling MP3s.