radiorickm, CGibson, and ChadNuttall: Thanks for the suggestions, and I will look into those as options. From what I'm seeing on eBay, they might be a little bit out of the budget I was hoping for, but that should change as soon as I get a couple of paychecks from the new job I'm starting. edit: wave capabilities would be nice since I know he has internet access over there. He's living in a freaking TENT but he's got internet access. And possibly a cell phone soon. I love our government...
acorec: I believe you misunderstood my statement of the problem. You see, my singer isn't from Iraq, therefore he has no particular heritage to include their music. We want to continue working on our American music project while he is just physically in Iraq.
Brother_N_t_: Shit, if I had known this was going to turn into a political debate, I would have said he was in hell or something... from what he's been telling us, it's pretty close. Personally, I'm pulling more for Kerry on the Iraq issue because he seems more geared toward allowing a UN multinational peacekeeping force and the puppet I mean sovereign Iraqi government's police to take over the peacekeeping/policing work that my engineer friend is currently dodging bullets for. That's not to say that he'll actually do this once in office, because I don't believe that there has been a President in the history of this clusterfuck of a country who has followed through on the intent of any campaign promise.