Jay Z's new "4:44" album not accessible to new Tidal subscribers unless they're Sprint customers

Sprint announced less than two weeks ago that its customers would be among the first to experience Jay Z's “4:44” album when it gets released on the artist's music streaming service Tidal on June 30.

Jay Z's “4:44” album is exclusively available on Tidal, so as long as you're a subscriber, you can listen to the album even if you're not a Sprint customer. Well, that's what we thought, and probably that's what many of music lovers thought.

However, it appears that if you subscribed to the music streaming service after Jay Z's album was released on Tidal, you ...