Be warned, I shall rant.

I have an American Express card and have racked up some points over the last few months and thought I might actually redeem them on something in the near future. Since I purchased my iPhone, I have wanted some music videos that are in better quality and might also buy some ringtones if Apple keeps locking out custom ringtones with every iTunes update (separate rant altogether). So, I decided to redeem 5,500 points for a $50 iTunes Card and just entered the code into iTunes to redeem it.

I’m mad.

The first item I knew I wanted was a music video by Rihanna. After clicking the “Buy Video” button, this message appeared.

So, iTunes will only let me purchase songs and iTunes Plus songs. I have $50 of credit in the store, but I can’t apply that to music videos, movies, tv shows, ringtones, or anything else. What good is $50 of songs? It expires in about 11 months, so I might have possibly used 1/2 of it by then….but what the hell Apple? Or is this some kind of weird conspiracy that I should complain to American Express about?