I should clarify that a bit...
The difference in price between 2 black ones and 2 pink ones is equal to about 10% of my bring-home for a 40-hour-work-week.
I worked 16 hours overtime this past week, so that's how I can afford to get a couple new ones.
I could stick to my backup mp3 player, but the sound quality is much worse, and it doesn't play my songs in alphabetical order (which is VERY important to a true obsessive-compulsive [which I think I've mentioned once or 168 times]) even though I've got that option set (some weird glitch in the program, I guess, because it LISTS them in alphabetical order).