How can I listen to a gifted iTunes song without adding my credit card?

I am having an absolute nightmare of a time with Apple. A friend gifted me with a song on iTunes. I do not have iTunes and am not a Mac user. I have found that the computers always add unnecessary steps and procedures and make even simple things far more complicated than needs be, as evidenced further here.
Bottom line, I just want to listen to the song my friend sent me. Easy, right? WRONG.
In order to do that, I needed to download iTunes. Reluctantly, I did. I was then told to download the x64 version, I did. Then, I had to create an account which asked for my personal information including home address, I shouldn't have to give this out to just listen to a song. But hesitantly, I filled it out. Then, when I tried to redeem the song, an error message popped up that said "this iTunes ID hasn't been used in the store" and to review my account, upon which clicking on it simply took me to signing in again and not going anywhere. To determine how to proceed to fix this error message, all the answers in Google were connected to Apple support communities. So then, I had to create a separate login for that. Now that I have, I'm seeing that I am being forced to add a credit card to my iTunes to listen to the download my friend sent me. Forget this. It's been two hours of this nonsense and I still haven't listened to the song. At this point I don't care at all about the song, all joy has already been removed from this gift with nothing but frustration. What a completely unnecessary waste of the few non-work hours I actually have in the evening. If anyone knows how I can just listen to the darn song to honor my friend's generosity and to not add my credit card and just get on with my life, I would greatly appreciate it.

P.S.   Do you know if the person who has an account and has sent a song as a gift can tell if it was redeemed or not? I just want this to be over.

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