Let me just add that I'm an audiophile, been one for years. Thousands of dollars worth of retail music, a real turntable, the whole nine yards. But I'm also grounded enough to separate my entertainment time from life's other obligations. Wearing an iPod all day just says "hey, I'm stupid" and need my audio baby bottle to function.
I seldom use my ipod with headphones. Maybe at home in bed while online with the laptop. At work I have a speaker set that lets me dock with the ipod. In the car I use a cassette adapter that I sometimes use with XM radio, or switch out with the ipod. The video is way cool. This from a 48 year old guy... But I may be weird... a conservative who drives a Prius...for the gadgets.
Same here... My "objection" to MP3's is simply the format, which, while it compresses the music just fine allowing for more songs stored on a device, the loss of music quality is too much for me to stand..
I still get upset over CD vs. Vinyl LP, because I know how much is lost by moving from analog to digital format..
Then you add the losses in quality for MP3..