Dancing About Architecture

So, I've just spent 30 minutes trying to get Yahoo! Music to take my credit card information so I can purchase their Unlimited subscription service. I enter all my info in, hit "Continue", and keep coming back to the payment page. No error message, no nothing. Try a different card? Same thing. Send support a message? Uh, how? Different browser? Nope, same thing.

Oh well. I guess I could use that $60 elsewhere. I had such high hopes, and now all I have is bad will.

Update: Well, it worked if I created an entirely new Y! account. I guess it didn't like my circa 1995 "elunt" account. I then had to restart the client a few times for it to correctly play streamed music.

Initial impressions are mixed. I think I really could like the subscription model, given how much time I sit in front of my computer listening to music. The Y! radio stations sounded like horrible flangy mp3s, like it was using a 32kbps bitrate or something -- pretty much unlistenable. Artist selection is okay, but I came across some albums (like Beck's Guero) that didn't offer all of the tracks!

Of course, for only $60 a year, I'll put up with a lot of awkwardness if I can get to even 50% of the music I really want to hear. I've got six more days to decide if I want to keep it.