High quality headphones are readily available.

Okay, fine: Rocking giant headphones has become a fashion statement, with plenty of posers sporting Beats By Dre just for looks, sound quality aside. But whatever: We're just glad that high-quality sound is not only accepted, but popular. People have moved on from exclusively rocking the earbuds their iPods came with. We don't care what type of music you listen to, we just think you should listen to it at the highest quality possible. No one can speak to the quality of headphones as being better back in the day, and be taken seriously.