no , you dont.
You don't! I created mine for free.
Yes you can! And you can make a free account if you do it right! Instead of linking a credit card to your account
Easy. Go to the apple website and click create a apple id. It IS free, just asks you for a credit card number for verification and you can delete the credit card later on
You can create a new Apple account.
Not really because you have to create an apple account using your email address but you can't log into apple with your email account. :)
When you make an Apple ID for the Ipod touch. You need to have a credit card.
Changing the ID is easy. You just go to the Apple website and create a new Apple ID. When you have your new Apple account, you enter your credit card information to create a way to pay for your phone service. (Did you think it would be free to separate the phone from your parents account?) After you have set up your account and paid for your service, you can have the phone transferred to your account. Of course, you probably also will need your parents permission to transfer the phone from their account to yours.
you have to go to itunes to register your ipod, to create an apple account and to enter credit card/bank information so you can fully unlock the ipod. you can register the ipod and create your apple account, that will unlock the ipod but without your credit card info you wont be able to access the app store. they wont charge a dime unless you actually buy something.
No. However, if you want it to download artwork using iTunes, you have to create an iTunes store account. This needs to be linked to a credit/debit card.
Try iTunes Access (http://www.itunesaccess.com). They can provide you a US iTUnes account and prepaid credit so you can buy stuff from the USA iTunes store no matter where you live.
Add more credit, or find something cheaper
You can remove in store credit from your Apple ID, and move it to another account. You can gift the amount from your iTunes account. If you find that you cannot, you can contact the iTunes help page, and they can help you move it.