I don't know if it was actually the best day, but I vividly remember...I think it was my 17th birthday?...getting a couple hundred dollars.
I knew I wanted to buy albums, but I knew also that I didn't want to spend ALL of my money on them, because I was putting money back for the NYC trip. The music store in my area had just started buying pre-owned CDs, and I walked to that section. Not a CD over $6. Excellent.
The only unfortunate part of this is that for whatever reason, I was unable to sample these CDs. I thought it was based on barcodes, but alas, no. They also weren't even remotely sorted by genre or anything. I decided to go in blind and grab a bunch that seemed cool. I ended up coming out with:
Monster Magnet - Powertrip
Muse - Absolution
The Mooney Suzuki - Electric Sweat
Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill
Tool - Lateralus
I definitely wore every single one of those CDs out, and can't remember having ever been so excited about purchased music as that day.
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