By the way, the zune marketplace's points were created to make your cash transferable through xbox live, and through zune. And for the 'are they cheaper' arguement, you can buy an unlimited amount of zune music, with an ADDITIONAL 10 free purchases a month for only 14.99, that said, if you subtract the free purchases you receive, that means that you are paying $5.00 a month for unlimited music downloads. I have about 6,000 completely legal songs, and they have cost me about $45. That would cost you... oh how much on an ipod? about $5940. That means, that I spent .0075x the money that an ipod user has spent. You may argue that although it is cheaper now, eventually it will catch up to me. On the contrary, for apple to be cheaper, I would have to download less than 5 songs a month, if you include the free purchases, also, the 5895 bucks that I am ahead right now would take me 37.25 years for it to have been cheaper to have used itunes. Suck on that macfail.
Zune Marketplace's Absurd Pricing Scheme