Phil: I'm not sure you caught my drift. :^) I started phasing out my vinyl the second I heard my first CD. Currently I have about 60-75% of my CD collection on a Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra (40 gigs) portable player (compare to I-Pod) I got for about $250 U.S. So far I've got 2982 of my favorite songs loaded on it (including every single song the Beatles ever officially released, even the 3 Anthologies and the new stereo Capitol reissues of the first 4 US albums on CD), and 21 gigs are still free. So I definitely love new technology. I'll eventually be carrying my entire CD collection with me to work or anywhere in my pocket! I set up a playlist on it with everything playing back at random. It's like having a radio station that plays all your favorite songs with no ads and no DJs. Oh, Yeah!! Life is good! :^) John

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy