I love vinyl too, but they keep skipping every time I hit a bump on a cross country road trip. I still buy CD's, and vinyl and when I go to sleep I use my ipod with a portable speaker next to the bed. I'm in the use what the situation demands school. I can take my ipod on a road trip and play what I want to hear and never need to be at the mercy of what is on the radio or in area with no signal. I had XM or a while, but I only found myself listening to The Grateful Dead station.