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Honestly, this post smells like troll flamebait to me. Abrasively state your viewpoint on a topic, then immediately dismiss an argument of the opposing viewpoint.
As is often said, it takes all types. I have yet to see what the problem is with Microsoft offering the Zune Pass as an alternative. If that's not one's cup of tea, the normal process of buying music is still present.
As it is right now, the 10 permanent song downloads included with the Pass, valuing at roughly $10, drops the cost to roughly $5 a month, assuming you would have downloaded at least 10 songs during that time period anyway. So it's quite possible to gradually replace music downloaded with the Pass into owned music at no extra cost. And it also opens up the idea of channels, which I think are great and would be very costly to the user if implemented under any other system.
So there, and I didn't even use the music discovery argument, which is also still valid, even if brashly dismissed by you.
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