If you go to a "drug store" in America (what I suppose you call a "chemist" in the Commonwealth nations :) ) you find all this "old" technology. I saw an elderly woman buying 3 VHS tapes in the CVS drugstore yesterday. I myself was buying CDs on which to burn, and next to them were audio cassette tapes. They sell CD player walkmans and other kinds of cheap electronics. Their headphones are usually better (at least on a cost versus quality basis) than, say, at RadioShack.

Now, what I am in the market for (if I had money) is a CD turntable. These are full-feature CD players that can be manipulated similarly to a phonograph. You touch the surface, like a DJ would touch a record, to spin it forward or back, adjust pitch, etc. Good ones can also be used to manipulate mp3 off a flash drive in the same way.