I have a thing that sits on the counter, plugs into the wall, and obligingly plays the CDs I drop into it.
I only got a personal CD player a few years ago when I took a train trip, so that I could listen to music without disturbing anyone. It's been in a drawer ever since.
I may get through this incarnation without *ever* owing an iPod, because no one who knows me well enough to give me a gift would ever give me one.
I'm relentlessly low tech.
