[Jeff Higgins]

My collection of artists that are not currently on my iPod is several times that that are. It sucks having the Shuffle; I'll have to pony up for the bigger one. I have about half a dozen play lists that I've put together that will fit on the Shuffle. There is some overlap between the artists on my various lists, but not much. Literally everything from symphony orchestra and big band to grunge and everything inbetween. Some of it nowhere between. Except for rap; that is about the only place I don't go musically. Preferences are blues and blues based rock, with early psychedelic and "prog rock" just to spice it up.

It's pretty cool what has happened as far as availability of older and/or more obscure music in the last ten years or so. I used to cruise the used record stores; now I just surf Amazon. Just amazing what you can find on CD these days. Maybe it takes some of the fun out of the hunt, but the music makes up for that.