Robbie in the US: All Play and No Work

Entertainment Weekly spotted Robbie Williams at a taping of Dancing with the Stars and had the smarts to grab him for an interview. Here's an excerpt:

EW: You're not releasing your latest album,Let's Swing Again,in the US. Why?
RW: I decided about four albums ago that I like living here. I get to be Batman by day. I've gotten to the point where I'm famous enough to enjoy my celebrity and do fun stuff without all the crap that goes with it. And it would be insane to invite what I have in the rest of the world into this country, so I'm not gonna bother promoting or releasing records here.

Emphasis mine. It's not much of a surprise, really. Robbie's CDs and DVDs have always been difficult to find here. But I always assumed we weren't getting the albums because sales weren't there - not because of some arbitrary decision to keep one corner of the globe hype free. Frankly, I'm a little offended by this. This country is good enough to live in, it seems, but meanwhile his fanbase here (small but by no means unimportant) are left to fend for themselves in acquiring his works. Of course, with the Internet this is no big task, but it hurts to be practically the only country in the world not deemed worthy of the new releases.