Also, one doesn't have to pay $72 up front just for the priviledge of owning land. $72 is for one's years premire membership. You could pay $10/month and fool with it for a month. With you first $10 you get $1000L which you can then use around $500L to buy your First Land plot which is plenty big enough to fool around with media panels.

This is what I've done and it works fine.