I selected the album and the web site says that you have to download the software to get the album or you can pay for tracks individually. Ok, no biggie, download the software.
Next step, download the music – problem! I’m not a US Resident

So even if the Track/Album is available on Amazon, if you don’t live in the right country, you can’t access it anyway.

To transfer iTunes music to a CD, put the songs you want to burn in a playlist, insert CD, click on the playlist you created, then click on “Burn Disc” in lower right corner. This will create a CD that is playable in any CD player. If you have a CD player that is capable of playing MP3 files, you can just drag-and-drop in Windows Explorer or whatever file manager you use.

AFAIK, DRM-free music from iTunes is already in MP3 format, so it should be transferable and playable on any computer. If you have some older, protected AAC format files, burn them to a CD and rip them to MP3 to remove the DRM.

I currently have my music library on a portable drive for my laptop, a NAS device for 3 desktops, and a backup drive, and have no problems playing anything on any of the 4 computers.

As the gentleman related it, due to a hard drive crash, she lost all her music, and the vendor (iTunes?) wasn’t being too cooperative about helping her replace her collection. She wasn’t about to spend another $100 to replace her collection, so her uncle handed her a copy of Limewire which she could use to replace her lost collection.

He commented that here he was trying to encourage her to do the right thing, and the vendor was being difficult. He wondered what kind of a lesson the child was taking away from all this.

I think that the lesson was quite clear: it is less hassle to pirate what you want than to purchase it legitimately. When the vendors make piracy a less onerous experience than legitmate purchasing, they’ve got a real problem on their hands.