Can you still get radios with tubes anymore? I remember my dad having this one clock-radio that I used to use. It had all sorts of tubes in it and when one blew, I'd run down to the local Walgreens to get a replacement. Don't remember the type of radio it was.
We used to have a working tube radio until a few years ago that we maintained for a radio training course that my father taught. It was a City and Guilds qualification, and it was so much easier to teach the theory with than a PCB full of resistors and capacitors.