Bud Light Downloads

May 19, 2008

Well, I hate to harsh on someone giving away free stuff, but unfortunately Bud Light commits two sins in giving away its free music:

First, age validation requires you to enter your date of birth to verify that you can drink beer. Fair enough. But form fields fail to clear when you click in the field:

Bud Light Form Fields

And then once you get to the download page, the MP3 file is stored in a zip file:

Zips are fine when you have many files. They did it here because they’re include a thumbnail image with the MP3. But really, who wants a thumb for a single MP3? They’re optimizing for the music nerd here, not the 90% of us who don’t care about an image — and the extra work to extract the MP3 is prohibitive.