walkman = oldschool

I only just realized, after paying attn to the ipod nano and therefore to ipods for the first time. mp3s huh.
Last weekend a middle-aged specimen sat across from us on Chicago's "El" train, swigging from a plastic bottle of vodka, eating dry corn tortillas, and listening to a cassette walkman. We wondered: "Hmm, what's he's listening to." and "He's not really gonna eat those tortillas off the moldy seat, is he?" But mostly we were thinking: "Walkman? HUH?"
Because, dude, had we forgotten about those! Sure, somewhere there's a closet full of our old, warped Minor Threat (and Glass Tiger) tapes. But the music revolution has been so swift and thorough, we assumed even homeless train-dwellers had iPods by now. There are iPods for normal people (the first-generation white ones), iPods for people who hate regular-sized, white things (the colored minis), budget iPods (the $99 Shuffles), and iPods for frat guys (the iPod U2). Mark Ruffalo Vs. iPod Nanos