"Walkmans used to come with headphones do they still make those?"

The original walkman was either tape or radio. Then later Sony made them with both tape and radio. Later Sony made CD based portables they sometimes called Discman and at other times Walkman. Some had a radio. Then came CD based mp3 players, that played regular CDs as well as mp3 files recorded on a CDR disk. Then Sony started making mp3 players, but their original mp3 players needed to use special Sony software to transfer songs to the player, so most people avoided them. Now Sony makes some nice mp3 players which they also call "Walkman" that require no software, or can be used with Windows Media Player software. The S series has FM radio(no AM) while the A series has no radio. The A and S series players have high quality sound. The A series comes with high quality earphones, while the earphones that come with the S series players aren't so good. Most mp3 players come with low quality earphones, so one needs to buy high quality earphones separately to get good sound. Sandisk, Samsung, and Cowon also make nice mp3 players. The Cowon D2 has an SD card slot for adding an SD card to expand the player's memory, while the Sandisk Fuze has a micro SD card slot. Both of these players have received great reviews. The Cowon D2 has 52 hour battery life for music, while the Fuze only has 24 hour battery life. Both have great sound quality(with high quality headphones purchased separately), and FM radio. The D2 comes with a charger, while the Fuze is charged via USB. In the US, the D2 is $150 for the 4 gig version(then you could add a 16 gig SD card for around $60). The Fuze is
$100 for the 4 gig version(micro SD cards are more expensive than full sized SD cards and are only available up to 12 gigs).
The Sony A816 has 4 gigs of storage, no radio, and is $100. No memory expansion slot though. It has 33 hour battery life.

The Sandisk Clip at $50 for the 2 gig version is the best sounding low priced mp3 player. The battery life is listed at 15 hours. It has FM radio, but no memory expansion slot.

If you want something inexpensive with good sound that is just a radio, the Sony SRF59 at just $15 is great
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs...amp;langId=-1&productId=11039173
The headphones included with it are junk though, so one needs to buy headphones separately. It gets 100 hours on FM or 140 pn AM on just one AA battery. It is analog and not digital though, but has better sound quality than most portable digital radios(why haven't they perfected portable digital radios yet?)

I could write plenty about headphones. One thing to keep in mind though is that many full sized headphones won't play loud enough with a lower powered portable. The Cowon D2 puts out plenty of power(37 mw per channel) and can power almost any headphone(except electrostatic ones and studio monitors over 300 ohms) to an adequate volume.