No, but the online store were launched together with the hardware - Edit 1
Before modification by Floffe at 11/09/2009 04:03:22 PM
If so, my mistake; I never wanted one and the whole business of randomly shuffling through every mediocre one hit wonder known to band hoping Zeppelin or Floyd will come up every now and then killed any interest I might have had.
The store was launched so that people would have a legal way of filling up their portable player, without having to buy CDs and rip them on their own.
And that's about the worst reason for not wanting an ipod I've ever heard, considering that you actively have to load the music onto it yourself, and hence choose what will be there. And the store has a pretty decent search, too.