So I read on digg the other day about Facebook giving out iTMS credit to download music for joining their “Apple Students” group, so I figure, it’ll cost me about 20 secs to log in and join the group…no loss there. So I join the group, get my “code” for the iTMS junk and put it in.

They gave me 25 songs, as promised…but the songs they gave me were chosen by someone else…and they SUCKED HARD. The only one I recognized was this Morningwood song that I’d only known about because I downloaded a different song by them after hearing it over and over on XM.

To make things worse, iTMS doesn’t even give you high quality music! The things were encoded at 128 kbit/s AAC-LC. Why can’t I have AAC-HE (aacPlus) or VBR MP3s?

Apple, Facebook, you both suck hard. At least *tell* people that they’re not getting music that’s even worth listening to.