Itunes = great?

When Itunes opened up in Norway, I thought "great"! Finally! But... there is a but. The same music is not offered through all the country stores, and so if I want to buy UK or German music, I can only access that through the country specific stores... but I cannot purchase it, since I do not have a German or a UK credit card. This sucks. I mean, why cannot we download the music from whichever store and still do the transaction within our own country? In the virtual, boundaryless world, there are still in fact boundaries. At least I tunes have tried as hard as they can to make it difficult to get aquainted with other cultures now.