Broken headphones?

As of late, the headphones that came with my ipod crapped out. The bass is distorted etc.. My friend told me that he was in NYC and went to the apple store with his broken headphones and they replaced them for free. Was this because of a special promotion or is this standard practice at all apple stores?

All I can tell you is that the headphones are covered under the normal 1-year iPod warranty. Are you sure it's not the headphone port on the iPod itself that sounds distorted?

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