reread: "and I don't want to purchase an actual MP3 player if I can't even download music... nor do I want to drop $20 when I'm just looking to listen to pandora for a month"

i'm doing a short stint of entering data for photos that i took, this isn't a normal gig for me. normally i can't listen to music while on the job, and the wage is so low here that it'd equate to two hours of pay which doesn't seem very cost effective.

lastly, i had this hope that somebody had some lying around that they never used because they upgraded standard ipod buds themselves.