More Zune Bashing, Marketplace Sucks

Over at TUAW, blogger Dan Pourhadi was heroic enough to purchase a Zune plus a subscription to the Zune Marketplace, the equivavent of the iTunes Store. Unlike many people he is a real fan of the subscription model but here’s what he found out:

Then I bought a Marketplace subscription, and lo-and-behold: some of my — nay, most of my — favorite bands are nowhere to be seen. And other albums I’ve searched for (ie, Radiohead) require that you purchase them, even if you have a subscription. (And the album price isn’t even in dollars — it’s in Microsoft’s convoluted points scheme.) Some albums — ie, This Providence — offer most of the songs for download, but the most popular (in this case, “The Road to Jericho…”) you’re only able to get if you actually buy the whole album. That leaves me asking: With all of these limitations, what the hell is the point of actually buying a subscription? (source)

Wow. Microsoft did it again.