I'm one of those people (as are probably a bunch here) that literally spends HOURS in a record store. My friends won't go to record stores with me anymore.
Probably one of my best record store excursions was a day when I had my girlfriend at the time pick a CD at random from the 'experimental' aisle, after I'd already snagged copies of Boris' Absoluteego++ (my first introduction to their more drone side), Merzbow's Merzbeat (blew my mind with the idea of beat-oriented harsh noise), and Jandek's 'The Place' (I could dedicate an entire thread to the ways Jandek has affected me, longterm).
The CD my girlfriend pulled was Yoshimi & Yuka - Flower with No Color. Along with being one of the most strangely pretty ambient albums I've ever heard, it also cemented in me my ability to recall completely useless information about music and bands at the drop of the hat, because the Yoshimi of the duo is Yoshimi P-we, who is rather connected, in the music world.
That's a big stupid tangent. The point is that everything I found on that one day blew my mind and opened me up to new realms of music and learning. Completely awesome.
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