Yahoo stole my money.
Hi, folks.
So I subscribed to this Yahoo Music radio thing a year ago. It was about 30 bucks for a year, which was a rip-off, but I needed something, and I didn't want to buy 15 albums from iTunes to hear anything new, so I went ahead with it. Basically I got to listen to songs in relatively high quality without commercials. It was kinda neat for a while, and they claimed to populate my radio station with songs based on how I rated other songs, so ideally, I wouldn't have to listen to any crap.
Now, of course, as is always the case with this stuff, I ended up having to shuffle through a swamp full of shitty music. Even after I had told the damn thing that I like The Roots and Radiohead, it still seemed to think I had some sort of interest in Staind and the Ying Yang Twins. "They're in the same genres as you like," it told me. Remember, I paid money for this.
After about three or so months of using the service, I kind of forgot I had subscribed to it and decided I would just listen to my iTunes playlist. It didn't help that the program with which one could access this radio thing -- it's changed names about eight times, but I mainly knew it as the Yahoo Music Engine -- was and remains the buggiest program I have ever used. It changed all the names of the music files on my computer, kept trying to make itself the default player for everything, constatly shut down due to scripting errors and, in its latest iteration, simply refused to work at all.
Let's get to the point of why I'm doing all this bitching. So I'm at work earlier today and for lack of anything better to do I'm looking at all my bank transactions because that's what I do for fun. And what do I notice on there but that Yahoo took 30 bucks out of my account earlier this month. Now you can guess that I spent quite some time trying to figure out what the hell I bought from Yahoo, or whether a major internet company was somehow trying to steal my identity (it is pretty widely coveted).
After cursing loudly in the office for several minutes, I finally remembered that it was probably around the time that my subscription to that thingie was going to run out. So I poked around in my little Yahoo account area to discover that, hey, Yahoo had just taken it upon itself to decide that I wanted to subscribe to their terrible radio service for another year.
Those fuckers.
You know, I'm not even that upset that they took 30 bucks away from me. Yes, that is a lot of money to me -- few people know this, but I live in utter squalor and eat nothing but boiled shoelaces -- but there's an even worse aspect to this, because now I have to get my money's worth. And despite the fact that Yahoo Jukebox Engine Music Program refuses to actually play songs because it apparently hates me and my computer, I, by God, am going to get every penny out of this motherfucking thing that I can get.
That's right, Yahoo. I'm coming down on you hard. And I'm going to do it by using your products and services. A lot. And I mean a hell of a lot. So get ready. Because I'm going to listen to every single Black Eyed Peas song you recommend me.
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