I think they are worth it.

Bought both my kids a Nano for Christmas. It beats buying a $15.00 cd that they want and they only like 2 or 3 songs on it. Now they can get the two or three songs for 99cents a song from Itunes.

There are also alot of free sites out there. But as we all know you need to be careful what we download.

I also have the Bose docking station for mine. So as its charging I can listen to it in my home and it sounds great.

You can also burn CDs of the favorites that you download. In the long run its cheaper and better.