That darn iTunes Store driving you to the poorhouse with music, television shows and iPhone app purchases? Fear no more. Dive your hands into that couch for loose change, check your pockets before doing laundry and bust open that piggy bank.

Coinstar automated coin-counting machines are now able to dispense gift cards and/or receipts with validation codes on them. And the kicker is that they don’t subtract the normal 9% fee usually charged when exhanged coins for cash.

If iTunes isn’t your thing, gift cards can also be issued from retailers Starbucks, Amazon, Circuit City, JCPenney, Borders, Pier 1, Eddie Bauer, Cabela’s, Disney, Old Navy, AMC and Linens ‘n Things. This is a great idea come holiday time when you’re buying gift cards anyway, simply use all that change that’s lying around and cross that name off your shopping list, keeping the real money for yourself!

America’s Next Top Model is bringing the fierceness for Cycle 11 on its premiere September 3rd. Isis, a contestant from local Prince Georges County (MD), is “a woman born physically male”, US Weekly reports. In what is sure to be a shocker to some of the other contestants (as well as viewers), GLAAD president Neil Giuliano describes Isis’ participation in the show as “an unprecedented opportunity for a community that is underrepresented on television. We applaud Tyra Banks and The CW for making this historic visibility of transgender people possible.”

Isis’ promo page can be found here. Her portfolio modeling shots will expand as we get closer to premiere date and move through the season.