Desert Island Discs in an iPod World

I was writing a list of the ten records I would take on a desert island for a sound class just now. But as often happens during events that inspire essays, I started thinking. What is the point of a desert island list in an iPod world?

It's essentially unpractical. Odds are that if you land on a desert island, you were in a plane that crashed. And the odds are even higher that if you were on a plane, you had your ipod with you.

I guess a more relevant question would be, "if you just got a brand new ipod, and you don't have any music backed up on your computer, and you were going to go on a flight across the country, and you had a sneaking suspicion that your plane was going to crash and you would be stuck on a desert island, what would be the first ten albums you load onto your computer?"