My daughter has had an ipod for a year now and loves it. She just wants to listen to music. I offered to get her an itouch but she said no since she has a laptop. My husband has the itouch. He loves the music and games. You just need to decide how many songs you want to store and if that is all you want to do with it. If you just want the songs then the ipods are the way. I want an ipod shuffle just to be able to take music around with me. But with the ipod shuffle you cant see a screen to tell you what is playing or be able to scrool through music. But they are very inexpensive. The itouch is good to get on the internet, store pictures, music and alot of other stuff. I had to purchase a download for about $10 for my husband to play games. Some games are free and then starting at at $5 to $50 on itunes. Music on itunes are $.99 per song or $9.99 for the album. You can play a clip of each song before purchasing.