Everybody talks about how the radio sucks, but nobody ever does anything about it. Well, here comes the Zune Car Pack to make it suck even worse!

Something funny happens when you charge your Zune – you do own a Zune, right? – while the crackly, unreliable FM transmitter plays your MP3 collection through your car radio. You begin to realize that your music, the music you love, the music you painstakingly ripped from your CDs and lovingly stole from your fellow media pirates, gets on your damn nerves just as bad as anything on Real Rock K-93.

It usually happens a couple of hours into a road trip, or by the second week of your commute. You feel like there should be something on the Zune that you can enjoy, or at least tolerate. But you’ll scroll fruitlessly through every album on the player over and over before you jab at the off button in disgust. Your world is shaken. A record store’s worth of music at your fingertips, and NONE of it is good enough?

Don’t worry. It’s a common enough syndrome for MP3-player users. But the Zune Car Pack adds a new wrinkle: now you can experience this frustration at 65 MPH. Drive safely, everybody!

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