Today’s economic boiler doesn’t seem to have reached the 769 high school students polled in Piper Jaffray’s 16th bi-annual survey of buying patterns and preferences with its student body.

The survey, conducted at a number of (apparently well-coifed) high schools in the United States over the past few weeks — while the global financial markets were essentially in freefall — focused on MP3 players, online music and Apple’s iPhone. They were asked if they wanted one in the next 6 months, had they bought one, and had they heard of the iPhone in the first place (84% had heard of the product, of course). 8% of the teens surveyed owned an iPhone, and 22% wanted to buy one in the next 6 months. 33% said if they ever bought a mobile phone (of those who didn’t own one) they would consider an iPhone.

The results, released late Tuesday, may say more about the financial demographics of the population polled than the buying power of the average U.S. teenager, but they will be music to Steve Jobs’s ears if it even remotely resembles the rest of the U.S teenagers view of the iPhone.