May 29, 2005 'But I Neeeeeed It!' She Suggested By ALEX WILLIAMS LAST Christmas, Kristi Stangeland, a mother of two who lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., made a grievous mistake: she bought her 14-year-old daughter, Erika Hinman, a shiny new MP3 player. But it was the wrong MP3 player. "I tried to get away with getting her an MP3 player that was $100 cheaper," Ms. Stangeland explained sheepishly. "I was in the biggest dog box," she said, recalling Erika's crestfallen response. "She went to school, and everyone else had got an iPod for Christmas. It was like, 'How come everyone else...