Cheap system for garage

An alternative to a boombox would be small, metal radioshack speakers, any ol' receiver or integrated amp and a portable cd player that has a line output, that he could move indoors when the weather was real cold. You could hang the speakers on a nail on the wall. I have this setup in my attic (old Advent Receiver) and it sounds better than a boombox. (better than Bose, too)

Yup,folk, music is music.Don't leave home without it. Last week at our own auction site; couldn't believe my eyes; a Bose cd/radio/ 38 bids/went for $375. To quote Roger Waters;" "Imagine That" I know; here is a quarter find somebody that cares/ gonna be hard.

If he has another set of speaker outs, he could run a set of outdoor speakers into the garage and get killer music from the real deal. I did this once, with spa, even ran a cheap pot from radio shack and had volume control at the spa. It was pretty cool.

the boombox makes sense here. Good place, probably the only suitable place for a Bose (ugh) product, LOL.

I can highly recommend the Sony CMT-EX1 desktop CD system. It is a shelf system not a "boombox", it is slightly over budget(around $299). You will be surprised of the sound this little thing can produce, it has a tempered glass front plate that you can see the CD playing(which makes it verticle loading). I have this unit in one of my garages and it holds it own, I am not sure how it would do in an uninsulated garage but I imagine it's performance would not be changed for years.