iTunes: Can I buy some music? No.
Friday, March 6th, 2009
NO ITUNES FOR YOU.
iTunes is pretty neat. That is, until you try to use it. As the “proud” owner of an iPhone, I’m unfortunately forced into using this piece of shit. My hell all started right from installation.
iTunes fucked my computer.
So I wanted to update my iPhone firmware. Downloaded and installed iTunes, rebooted my computer, and watched as Windows no longer worked. Wasted an hour moving back to an older config and then wiping every trace of iTunes. Since I’m a masochist, I decided to try the installation again. This time it worked, and only broke my USB after I managed to finish the firmware update. Now I just use other people’s computers.
I wanted to buy some music. What a stupid idea.
Figured that I should actually support some recording artists, so I picked up an iTunes gift card and attempted to put it into my account. The first 10 attempts, the servers apparently timed out and gave me errors. Stopped to calm down, drank a few beers, and tried again. Now it tells me that my Canadian gift card cannot be added to a US account (long story), but that I could change this in the billing area. No problem, right? I entered the new address and gift card details. Everything seemed to go OK, and so I fired up iTunes on my phone and proceeded to download all of my favorite Hannah Montana tracks. Hahahaha. Yeah, it’s pretty funny how I thought it would actually work. Instead, an error message pops up saying that my account cannot be used in the US iTunes store. But hey, I’m a fucking genius right? I went back into the iTunes billing and put a US based address back in, except this time it refused to go further without a credit card number. I GUESS NOW I’M FUCKED.
So it seems I managed to accomplish nothing. My iTunes billing information is completely suck as it won’t do ANYTHING without a credit card. End result? My gift card is now useless, iTunes won’t see my phone anymore, and I still have no fucking music downloaded. THANKS APPLE FOR SUCKING YET ANOTHER DICK.