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Liam:
I impulse-bought The Shin's Chutes Too Narrow based on the album art alone. I normally don't do this, but the album art was so indicative of the style that it worked out for me.

I shop for music almost exclusively at Rasputin/Amoeba in Berkeley, and since I don't have a car, it's usually a while in between visits. Because of this, I almost always have a big list of things I've had recomended to me.

Strangely, I probably would have a harder time bothering to get out there if it weren't for Blondie's Pizza being next door and The T-shirt Orgy across the street.

Go Berkeley, go.

Inlander:
I also impulse buy like mad if there's a sale.  In Australia the standard price for C.D.s is A$30; yesterday I got Steve Earle's Copperhead Road for A$10, and John Vanderslice's Cellar Door for A$15 (reduced from A$35 - great buy).  Less successfully, I recently bought the Eels' Beautiful Freak for A$10 based on everyone continually raving about them, and on fond memories of "Novocaine for the Soul".  I've listened to it once and apart from that one song (and half of "Susan's House", which I also remember off radio) I didn't like it at all.

Praeserpium Machinarum:
As some have already said, I don't impulse buy because I am too broke for that. I did impulse buy Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante once because I couldn't get all the cds I actually wanted and thought "fuck it, I'll buy this instead and get a whole bunch of genres". I never listen to it, so it wasn't a particularly good buy.
All the stores I shop at are corporate, except for that place in Iceland, so there is hardly any service, much less friendly service.
The place in Iceland, which I sadly can't remember the name of, had a really boring floor with classical and shite. But they had this indietastic cellar, where there was a whole rack dedicated to "In the Aeroplane over the Sea", why the fuck I didn't buy it I don't know. I bought Björk, Sigur Rós and My Bloody Valentine instead.
New cds in Denmark cost around 28 USD, which I think is insane.

Velly:
Wow, a country where CD's are even more expensive than here!

Synchronicity:
Usually I check out CDs from the library to see if I like them before I buy them. My library has a system were you can put holds on books/CDs/whatever from all the other libraries in the system which is nice. They also have a lot of indie bands (not really unheard of stuff, but they have stuff like Architecture in Helsinki, The Apples in Stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel, etc.)

I often go to thriftstores and my two local used CD stores but that's more for impulse buys.

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