[conservaKate]

Turns out that with the streaming music option on iTunes, you need the new style iPods in order to store the songs locally and listen to music offline on them.
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Do you have an IPod you recommend? I know next to nothing about Apple products. I just want to download music so that I can listen off line when I go running.

And the hubby wants to know when tube stocks went out of fashion? :)

[SamAdams76]

Well if you want the $9.99 a month streaming option where you can listen to just about any song, you will want the iPod Touch model so that you can download music and store offline. But those songs are DRM protected so as soon as you stop paying the $9.99 a month, those songs are rendered inaccessible. These devices have flash RAM instead of a hard drive and thus less capacity. Though the higher end models do have a good amount of storage, the basic models have 16GB or 32GB.

If you purchase your music, then you might want to consider the iPod Classic which has an old-fashioned hard drive and stores more music (160GB)

I would say 1985 was the last year of the tube socks. I have a picture of myself playing tennis with them that year. Shortly after that, it became unfashionable for men to wear socks that reached up past their ankles (at least when we had shorts on).