I used to have an old skool walkman, it was kind of crappy though. Then I went to a Memorex CD player with 20 second anti-skip protection, haha. It was actually a pretty good skip protection, too. From there I went and got conned into buying a stupid Sony CD Walkman/atrac3 player instead of getting the iPod I had wanted. I lived with that for as long as I could bare it before finally getting my precious 20 GB iPod. It lasted for a long time too, and once it died I went and got myself a 5.5 G iPod, which I'm still using.