feel free to send me your ipods, i find the ability to have a lot of music organized at my fingertips and portable to be a good idea. i like music, who cares how i get it. yes i prefer it to sound "good", but i dont see anything wrong with hearing it at all. most of us listen to music in our vehicles and they are pretty bad acoustically, i dont see much difference between that distortion and the sound coming out of some earbuds. of course i would prefer the sound to be beamed into my head at the highest quality possible from outerspace, but alas it is still a dream.