Am I being forced to upgrade my OS to use iTunes?

I have OS 10.2.8 and have been using the iTunes music store without a hitch for many years now. I recently went to download a children's song for my niece and instead of purchasing the song, a page to upgrade to the latest version of iTunes showed up instead. There is no "upgrade later" option, besides I can't upgrade to the new version because I need OS version 10.3.9/10.4.7 to use it. Am I being forced to pay $129 to upgrade my OS if I want to be a customer of the iTunes music store? Is there any way around this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-Kevin

Unfortunately, you may be out of luck being that you are two versions off on your OS. It may be better to upgrade. You cannot expect the latest and greatest software to run on obsolete code.
Out of curiosity what version are you running right now? Maybe you could get away with a late 6.x version.

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