Oh, us college students. If there’s one group of people in this world who feel it’s necessary to have a bajillion songs on hand at all times, look no further than your fellow students. Most of us were cool back in the day, but now, oh god, now?! Now we work at part-time and full-time jobs that we hate and give us a bit of money to express ourselves with.

iPod users generally fit into four categories: 1) The super hip, I-keep-a-laptop-on-hand-when-my-palm-pilot-fails crowd, who need every gadget under the sun, 2) The I-don’t-want-to-talk-to-people crowd who are busy being moved by My Chemical Romance or Vendetta Red, the musical equivalent of a dog turd.

The third category are people who just enjoy music, but are perhaps too lazy to change CD’s. The final category is just people who enjoy a lot of music.

I am an odd fellow, but I can accept that. I don’t mind being alone with my thoughts as I walk from a parking spot to the classroom. I can’t see why people must have a device that provides external stimuli whenever possible.

And now I hear that they can play video. When the hell do I, you, or anyone else need to distance ourselves from others by watching tv on the go?

I’m pretty sure if I put every song I ever wanted to listen to in mp3 format it would come out to less than a gig. This makes me wonder: Is it just me? Or, is the iPod phenomenon more about “because I can” than “I have appreciation for an exorbant amount of bands”?
I am not down on technological advances. I would gladly accept one as a gift (because I neatly fit into category 3), but I wouldn’t buy one.

If you can budget for such things, more power to ya’. But if you’re cheap, or if no one’s buying you an iPod, then pick up a $70 mp3 CD player; Walkmans are quite retro, and a couple of blank CD’s should hold your music collection pretty easily.