Doesn't this defeat the purpose of an iTunes prepaid Music Card?

[Convert]

I brought one for a friend yesterday who has an account, so that is fine.

However, I wanted to get one myself, which I plan to do later.
But I tried to make an account, and it said that my .mac account meant that I already had one, I just had to set it up.

But this is where it required a card. I thought that there would be an option for using a prepaid card...

Is this some sort of error, or am I doing something wrong?

 

[adambyte]

When initially setting up an account for iTunes, yeah, you enter your credit card information. Once you have your own account set up, and you are signed it, go to the iTunes Music Store main page and click "iTunes Music Cards" in the left hand side under the "account" section. There you go.

While shopping, your amount of credit will appear in the upper right corner of the iTunes store.

It doesn't "defeat" the purpose of a pre-paid card. But it certainly makes it a little too easy to buy more songs once your music credit is used up. heheh.