I can't get rid of iTunes match

Hi everyone,
I have a rather strange problem with my iTunes match. After having it for about two years my subscription recently expired and I did not renew it. I don't know if I have to defend my decision, but basically what it boils down to is that I usually have all the music I want to listen to on my phone anyway, and for other music there is a bunch of alternative streaming services that allow me to access large libraries including music that I don't actually own.
Anyway, I just didn't renew the subscription and thought I was done with it. But wait, there is more. First of all, the cloud icon did not disappear from my library, only upon turning off match in the iTunes store the cloud was gone. A minor inconvenience. The bigger problem is, that since my subscription expired, I can no longer add music to my phone. While being subscribed to iTunes match that was not really a problem since I would just download the song i wanted to listen to, but now without that option, i simply can not put any music on my phone. All I see in the music tab in iTunes when syncing my phone is a message stating "iTunes match is on" and something about voicerecordings.
So I tried to turn off match in the preferences, but no luck, there actually isn't even an option, the only mention of match is "renew subscription" (I was almost tempted to do that, but after clicking on the link all that opened was a white page with no content).
I tried to find a solution online, like deleting all music manually (great, now I have no music on my phone at all) and signing out of your account in the app/itunes store preferences (that changed the link in the music preferences from "renew" to "subscribe", but still directs to a white page).
So now I'm stuck not being able to put ANY music on my phone. Does anybody have a similar problem? Or even better, a solution?
Thanks in advance!

First trouble shooting step is to sign out of the iTunes Store on the device, restart the device, and sign back in. This will generally clear up the problem.

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