What's the last album you bought because you heard it in a music store?

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jellowhirled@reddit

Ministry's The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste in 1989.

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Accomplished_Exit_30@reddit

Not a music store, but a Vision Mart express, I heard Ohio by Bowling for Soup and found their A Hangover you don't deserve album.

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Fyreflyre1@reddit

Esthero - Breath From Another

This was probably 98 or 99? Stuck around for a bit longer than normal just to check out a few tracks as I just fell in love with her voice. Picked up the album and went home.

Still one of my favorites.

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Genesis, The Best... Genesis (a 2 LP set of Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot), purchased sometime in 1994. I had never heard 70s Genesis in all their proggy glory until I heard "Supper's Ready" playing at a local used record store in my hometown. Mind blown, record purchased immediately!

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Quasigriz_@reddit

The last album I ever bought was Speakerboxxx/The Love Below - OutKast (Big Boi/Andre 3000).

I do remember losing my love of albums with Foo Fighters and their crazy copy protection that prevented me from loading music on my iPod Video. The OutKast album only had a few songs I liked and I just decided to give it up after that.

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corpus-luteum@reddit

#1 Suspect by Gangsta Pat. 1991.

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Carrollz@reddit

Cusco Apurimac II

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GarionOrb@reddit

The last time I remember doing this was a million years ago when I walked into that store Natural Wonders!

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Vegetable-Orchid1789@reddit

I miss that so much! Loved going to Sound Warehouse in north Dallas and being able to listen to pretty much whatever you wanted to! I always ended up walking out of there with one or two albums. It was awesome.

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This-Cartoonist9129@reddit

1988 - Lion and the Cobra. That was a long time ago

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NOGOODGASHOLE@reddit

At Sam Goody or Tower?

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GeoHog713@reddit

What's a "music store"?

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_RLW_@reddit

I don’t know but I used to do that all the time. My favorite place ever, Waterloo Records in Austin would always have random albums playing. The employees just picked what they wanted to hear and typically picked cool stuff. The one I remember most was Raphael Saadiq’s The Way I See It. I saw the cover art propped up by their stereo and promptly when to snag it from the bin. This was close to 20 years ago…still have that disc and listen to it.

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buzburbank@reddit

Saint Etienne, Foxbase Alpha.

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FallenValkyrja@reddit

Not a store but at a concert about 10 years ago. Last time in a store was… a very long time ago.

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bigtonearcade@reddit

Not sure. But i was mattress shopping once and bought the one i was lying on because Soulshine came on

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skim9729@reddit

Hot fuss. The killers

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RetiredPoPo10-8@reddit

Been a long time...probably The Traveling Wilburys's debut album.

I was going to buy it eventually but hearing it made me not postpone and buy it right then.

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labretirementhome@reddit

Moving Pictures - Rush

Had it on on cassette in my car. Almost wore it out.

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craigp0409@reddit

Phillip Walker - The Bottom Of The Top

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F-Cloud@reddit

Adorable - Against Perfection. That was a loooong time ago, mid to late 1990s.

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Flababulous@reddit

AiC - Black Gives Way to Blue (2009, CD).

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TerminalDiscordance@reddit (OP)

LOL why the downvotes?

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userr7890@reddit

I’ve never bought an album that I heard playing in a music store, mostly heard stuff on the radio

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Pure-Sherbert996@reddit

Green Day - Dookie

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Rhanson72@reddit

Beta Band - Three E.P.s

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Helpful-Ad-6408@reddit

i bought a beta band album after it was in the movie “high fidelity”

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Rhanson72@reddit

I bought five copies that day.

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Helpful-Ad-6408@reddit

i think it was Odelay. by Beck.

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dumpycupcake@reddit

I was in Mexico City in a record store and I heard a Spanish cover of “My Sherona” and asked about the band, it was Moderato. I listened to the rest of the album while I was crate digging and left with lots of records plus the Moderato cd right out of the player.

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krakatoa83@reddit

Throwing copper maybe

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Fit-Dark-4062@reddit

Something from and in the 90s

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IMTrick@reddit

I'm pretty sure this is not something I've ever done.

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SmokedLimburger@reddit

I’m not sure I’ve ever bought music because I heard it in a store. These days I buy music because I hear it on the radio. Buy it straight to my phone but still can’t manage to buy it one song at a time, have to buy the album.

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TripMaster478@reddit

Wait. A music store? Closest we have is HMV retro's in Toys R Us's. Well okay to be fair we have a couple decent vinyl stores. But I can't justify the price of vinyls anymore.

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MarquisInLV@reddit

The Dead Man Walking soundtrack. It was my introduction to Steve Earle.

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erilaz7@reddit

I work in a record store, so I'm constantly hearing things that my coworkers put on, and sometimes I grab them for myself. My most recent purchase of that sort was a 1998 CD of the 1966 album Baby Pop by France Gall, three weeks ago.

Sometimes a coworker will pass something my way that they think I'll like, I'll give it a spin and end up buying it. My most recent of that sort was the 1980 LP Energy Transfer by the Heaters, which I bought two weeks ago.

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eboy71@reddit

I lived across from a cool record store in the late 90s . I’d often go over to browse and almost just as often would leave with a CD from the music they were playing. I don’t know what my last one was but a few include Roots (Sepultura), Shot (The Jesus Lizard) and Slipknot’s debut.

It was always so much fun to discover music like that.

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Cold-Indifference@reddit

Nightwish - Once

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KurtStation68@reddit

I was buying CDs, and I happened upon a local group called Chromatics (electronica). Guess that's like buying that candy bar while in line.

So as not to feel embarrassed, I went out of line and browsing the records and got it there instead of the displays.

Maybe 6 years ago(?). But typically once a month I hit the music store (for strings/picks for my bass), or for music (for sanity purposes). Even if browsing, keeping me functional.

I already was an old fart at Hot Topic to refresh a band shirt and maybe check out on ephemeral stuff/music.

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iamthepickleweasel@reddit

Bad bunny. I was in for record day and heard it. When everyone was talking about him. Super Bowl something something darkside. They were playing the album. It was actually kind of sick. So I got it.

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PepsiOfWrath@reddit

Can’t remember, I think my last were BMG or Columbia House, but probably Rush or Dinosaur Jr.

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Techelife@reddit

Queens of the Stone Age on CD

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leadhead691@reddit

Pulp fiction soundtrack (CD)

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Fragrant-Anywhere489@reddit

Talk Talk The Colour of Spring

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Ammortalz@reddit

I doubt I ever bought due to hearing it in the store. I always went in with something specific in mind.

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FAx32@reddit

There was really just one Tower Records that was pretty inconvenient for me to go to, so the vast majority of my purchases were at the place in the mall that was closer which literally played nothing but top 40 but carried a lot more and then Fred Meyer who also had a pretty good selection.

I would usually read about something in a magazine or see it on MTV 120 minutes at a friend's house (my parents didn't have cable) and think it was cool and go buy it.

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ggibby@reddit

Would have been circa 1998, when I had a 'local' shop (RIP Revolution Records) who knew me and kept aside things I liked, or might.

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YellowOnline@reddit

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell

In 2003, on vinyl

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ACorania@reddit

I don't think I ever did that.

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HousesRoadsAvenues@reddit

I did not either.