UK Motown Downloads - With Some Good & Bad News

[calvin]

I just noticed that a couple of downloads have been made available in the UK over the past few days:

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - What Love Has...
Stevie Wonder - Live at Talk of the Town

These are available in 320 kbps mp3 from Google Play and 7Digital. Both titles are also on Spotify in the UK. [[These have been available in the US for some time.)

http://www.7digital.com/artist/smokey-robinson/release/what-love-has-1
http://www.7digital.com/artist/stevie-wonder/release/live-at-talk-of-the-town-1

Good news for those who want to download in cd-quality audio - I found the Stevie Wonder title available as a lossless download from Qobuz [[a French site specializing in hi-rez and lossless downloads):
http://www.qobuz.com/fr-fr/album/live-at-talk-of-the-town-stevie-wonder/0060253760784

Additionally, many Hip-O releases are also available on Qobuz as lossless downloads, such as "This Is The Story - The Jean Terrell Years", which is now very hard [[and expensive) to get on cd:
http://www.qobuz.com/fr-fr/album/1970-1973-the-jean-terrell-years-the-supremes/0060249888039

[calvin]

For those who care [[if anyone) - I've edited the above post because you CAN purchase these lossless downloads from the UK. I emailed Qobuz's customer service yesterday and they "updated" my account to allow it. Apparently they just wanted to confirm that I reside in the UK, or something. I did buy Stevie Wonder's "Live at Talk of the Town" from them.

Perhaps this could be interesting for some of you. Sometimes forum members wish they could buy an out-of-print title but complain that used copies are far too expensive. Well, you might find them here at a reasonable price. You won't get a physical copy but at least you'll get the same audio as the cd [[and you can burn it to make an audio CD if that's what you prefer).

One Hip-O title I missed was Rare Earth's "Fill Your Head". I just didn't buy it on release, for whatever reasons, and now used copies are quite expensive. Today I bought the cd-quality [[16 bit, 44.1 kHz) download of this from Qobuz for 22.09 Euros - about £17.50 [[not bad for a 3-cd set). I should note, though, that it did NOT come with any liner notes [[as pdf or whatever).