He has a Zune-branded stress ball as well as a Zune tinderbox, complete with matches that are dyed in the brand’s customary burnt orange and fiery purple. Woods owns multiple Zune-stamped traveling cases and boombox docks. Click through his post on the r/Zune subreddit, and wander into his veritable shrine of forgotten Zune detritus. He counts a particularly rare model bearing the Halo 3 logo and another with the Gears of War seal, but to fully understand the depths of Woods’ obsession, you need to look past the gadgets and into the great beyond. “At some point I ran across some rare ones and couldn’t bring myself to part with them.”
“I taught myself to solder, began buying up dead Zunes, and repairing and flipping them for a profit,” he says. Woods picked up his Zune foraging habit during the pandemic, while he was furloughed from his job working security at Best Buy.
He owns the entire scope of the brief Zune lineup - from the svelte Zune 4 to the chunky Zune HD - and among the microscopic community of people who still adore Microsoft’s much-derided MP3 player, no collection of dead tech could possibly be more enviable. They come in all different colors, shapes, and sizes, and each can be identified by that telltale black plastic D-pad just below the screen. And yet, 27-year-old Conner Woods proudly shows off his lineup on a kitchen table.
It is even weirder to own a Zune in 2021 - let alone 16 of them.
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