I went home and began the arduous process of transferring all of my CDs and digital downloads to the iPod. My only regret was that I couldn’t find the U2 model that I wanted more than anything. I went to the Dartmouth Best Buy and happened upon an open display model 30 gigabyte iPod that was being sold for $300, and finally pulled the trigger. I had about $400 in Best Buy gift cards saved up, and that was about the price of a new iPod. I then became obsessed with getting an iPod.Įvery year for Christmas or my birthday, my family would always give me gift cards, which I would then save up until I wanted to buy something big. I purchased it as a way to delve into the world of these things called “podcasts,” and I quickly filled it up with music and realized just how great this format truly was. Then, I happened upon a generic MP3 player on sale at CVS for $30. While everyone else was buying their iPod Classic, I was buying more blank CD-Rs. I drove around with one of those folders that holds 100 CDs, plus had another sleeve on my visor that held another 20.Īt first, I wasn’t sure one tiny little device could duplicate that experience for me, so I was reluctant to buy an iPod. When the iPod was first released, I was all in on burning CDs from files I had downloaded off Napster and Limewire (I think the statute of limitations has run out, so I can say that).
I love music, and I had amassed a large cassette collection from about 1987 until I switched exclusively to CDs around 1999, but I still kept all my cassettes in an old, beat-up restaurant egg box for another 10 years after that. When the iPod debuted in 2002, I was skeptical.
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