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Originally posted by Bloomers
Every computer starts out with a couple songs already on it that you have no choice over and I've never heard anyone complain about these tracks. I don't really understand the big deal about having the album on the computer. Yes, the album is kind of like the musical equivalent of spam, but it's not like it's some new thing.
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That's a different situation though. You buy a computer for mainly other things than music, ofcourse there are some preset things, like those few songs, but it's like a phone or even game consoles. Those are worthless if they don't have a few pre-installed things, from that point people can decide in what kind of way they use their computer, phone or game console. A computer is not like €10,- it's a product you have to think about before you purchase it, the pre-installed things are just basics to see different functions of what the machine or device ic capable off.
People mainly install iTunes because they want to buy music, apps, books and other kind of media and entertainment. You are in a digital store and you register your account information, including paying information. Apple misused this information in their own benefit. Normally if you buy anything from itunes you get a second confirmation whether you want to buy something, even from a free song like song of the week. In this case Apple basically misused their power and already purchased an album and forced it to every account that registered or was already registered to their iTunes platform.
Ofcourse spam itself is hardly something new, but it's a worrying situation and development that a company like Apple is misusing accounts to spread products. It's like the google play store would decide tommorow with a game company to "gift" an app to every Android user and you wake up, turn on your phone and see some random game downloading on your device. Not only does it take away space, since that was the problem for iPhone users, but it also takes away your right as customer to have a choice in whatever you actually wanna buy or choose.
In your mail you can "block" things to exclude spam, you don't register to iTunes to recieve random albums without giving any permission, you can't block that on iTunes, you just recieve an album and as customer you have to wait a while to even get rid of the album and then take a few extra steps to get rid off it, while you never gave permission to add it to begin with,
Customers shouldn't be the ones who have to make such descisions, customers should be able to choose and accept or decline whatever they want to recieve or have. 
You're certified living legends who doesn't need to pull this kinda of stunt at all... leave it to newbies 