Music Store iPods

I dropped by Waterloo Ice House a week or so ago in Austin to buy a Led Zepplin CD and do some browsing. You know how many stores will have album cover CDs with headphones for sampling. Often these stations will pair up a CD cover with a number that you punch to bring up the album.

At Waterloo now iPod Nanos are the new listening stations. You grab a set of ear buds, do your usual scrolling on the Nano, and listen to samples.

Is that happening in other metro areas around the country?

Kind of interesting that the quality of the recording in the Nano doesn't match up to the CD, but is the idea that it works as a teaser and so is fine? Or is it the cool factor that's at work here?

How is this going over in Chicago, Philly, LA, Washington DC, other areas?

--Arnie Williams, Managing Ed, TPV