How dare you card me!
I do not buy music. As a college student it was an expense I could not afford, and now as an unemployed graduate, it remains as such. Yet, the music given to me by loving friends, family, and boyfriends who think my music collection is ridiculous has grown rather huge. While it doesn’t even begin to fill my iPod, I’m still impressed it almost reaches 10 gigs.
iTunes released a new version today, and I was as psyched as those technology geeks around me. Genius, the new feature that suggests songs that go together – songs you own and songs suggested you buy – is the big new feature. But I won’t be able to play with it.
Since I don’t buy music, I also don’t have an iTunes account. I tried to sign up for one, but Apple requires I also put in my credit card number to qualify. As a general rule, I am not very invested in finding new music. And now I’m even less vested if it’s in exchange for my credit card number.
It’s not that I don’t trust Apple with my credit card information. It’s that Apple doesn’t need that information. I know that Genius is going to be used to try and sell me things, but can we at least pretend the commercialism is a layer deep? I am not going to buy music from Apple, and I feel that my credit information should be optional.
If anyone knows of a way to get around giving them this information, I’d be much obliged. For the moment, I’ll just dance with my own crummy self-made playlists. Hopefully it’ll be okay.