I'm sorta anit-mainstream, I refused to buy an Ipod. My hubby and I both have Sansa MP3 players. It doesn't do much for fancy stuff (although you can put pictures on it, although we don't). It just plays music which is what we bought it for.

http://www.sandisk.com/products/sans...3-players.aspx

That one is probably the closest thing they currently make, to what we bought. Ours are only 4gb with expansion micro SD slot to add an additional gb. We only paid $60 each for ours, but we got them when they were changing models so they were on sale.