A lot of you probably have never heard of Spotify, and frankly I don't blame you, but it is pretty much the best thing ever. Or at least, it is the best thing ever if it is available in your country. To sum it up, Spotify is pretty much the iTunes Music Store, except instead of having to listen to an excerpt, you can listen to the whole thing, as many times as you want. Needless to say, the design and everything that goes into is is quite flawless and amazingly easy to use. Unfortunately, the reason very few people have heard of it is because it is available in pretty much every country except the US. The rest of us who have been dying to use it have been forced to use fake accounts that act like they have been set up in one of the acceptable countries, but of course, nothing is that easy. After about 14 days, Spotify gets wise to your scheme because it notices your IP address is not coming from the country you say you are in and subsequently locks you out. This can get quite frustrating, especially when you have done this 3 separate times, like me. But it is not like Spotify hasn't had a good reason for launching it stateside yet. I'm sure you can imagine all of the copyright laws that would go into making something like this marginally legal in the United States, especially with how the RIAA has been cracking down lately. However, with that being said, it looks like there is actually hope for us all to be able to be able to experience it legally. The word on the street is that Spotify is in talks with US record companies and will hopefully be launching it here as early as January 2010. This is quite exciting for someone like me who has been following its progress ever since it first launched. When it finally comes within our grasp, I can safely say it is going to blow Pandora, Last.fm, Slacker, and even iTunes completely out of the water.