Merge MobileMe and iTunes account?! This is CRAZY unfair!

When I first joined MobileMe some years ago I couldn't merge my iTunes account with my new MobileMe email address. Furthermore, at the beginning I believe (though I can't find any info to back this up) that it was NECESSARY that you had a seperate account for mobileme and the iTunes store, that's why I have two.
Now that I've switched over to cloud my MobileMe Account is obviously the one I want to use for everything, but all my music and perchases for the past 4 or 5 YEARS are on another account, which I'm told I can't merge. What happens when people get married, or or change email addresses, or even countries?
Are digital commodities really this fragile and fleeting? If so I'm just about done throwing my money at binary, and go back to CDs.
Any thoughts... what can I do? I've spent hundreds if not thousands I'm sure over the past 5 years... this is crazy.

Use your ex-MobileMe login for iCloud; use your iTunes ID for iTunes, iTunes in the Cloud and iTunes Match. There's no problem in having two IDs this way, and in fact it's more secure not to have your iTunes login the same as your email address (given the number of complaints about iTunes accounts getting hacked).
Once you've got it running Keychain will handle the logins anyway so you won't even need to remember which login is which.

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