Actually I bought it quite recently (last saturday). But instead of going through the Apple, I opted to go through CompUsa and got it there. why, you ask? easy, because they offer something Apple doesn't, a product replacement plan. If anything happens to your ipod, instant new one, no questions asked.
The good news is that I got mine replaced probably because it was a defective hard drive, but the bad news is that my ipod still gives me incorrect battery readouts. I've formatted and updated but to no avail. Hopefully I'm the only one having this problem and this isn't a wide spread case of bad ipods.