Sign In Required message when buying song on iPod?

I wanted to buy a song on my iPod via iTunes, as I have done many, many times before. But it won't let me; every time I tap the price to buy it, it prompts me to sign in as usual, which I do; and then it gives me this message:
"Sign-in required: Tap continue and sign in to view billing information."
Even though I just signed in. There is not a continue button, there is only an OK button, which, if I tap it, just takes me back to the iTunes search results. All my billing information is correct, nothing has changed since I last bought a song on my iPod, and I also have about $20 of iTunes gift card balance in my account, so there should not be any billing issues. And I just bought a song on it 4-5 days ago with no problem, and I really haven't used it much this week so nothing should have changed.
Anybody have an idea of what is going on?!?

Hmm... and you don't have this issue when trying to purchase the song on your computer correct?
Maybe try resetting all of your iPod's Settings. To do this head to *Settings -> General -> Reset* and tap *Reset all Settings*. From there, if still no luck, it might be a good idea to go and restore your iPod via iTunes.
B-rock

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