When I buy music these days, it’s usually in a batch of mp3s. It used to be from iTunes, but now I go first to Amazon for DRM-free mp3s. If I can’t find it there, then iTunes. If not there, then the torrents for a free copy. I at least try to be legal! 
Often my music shopping starts with a song I hear on a tv show or movie soundtrack. Usually it’s some new catchy emo tune (yeah, I’m willing to admit I like sappy rock from cute preppy guys!). Sometimes it’s an old 90’s tune from my high school years. It’s funny how you strongly associate songs with certain times, places or memories. Like SoundGarden’s Black Hole Sun is forever ingrained on my brain associated with my friend Jacob Titus’ house playing Magic. Somebody put the song on repeat because they liked it, and forgot about it. We all forgot about it as we got busy playing, and hours later we all wondered why the song was seared into our minds.
But I digress! Lately I’ve realized a number of songs I loved in the 90s I don’t have now for whatever reason. They didn’t survive the conversion from CDs to mp3s, or didn’t survive hopping from one PC to another. I finally went and searched for a list of top 90s songs and came across this list which is fairly good. I had most of them, but found a few I’d forgotten about. And a couple, like Sponge’s Plowed, I thought, who is that and what song is that? And the moment it began, I went “Oh yeah! I really like this song!”. I’ve recalled a few of the songs which I might describe as more eclectic, like Butthole Surfer’s Pepper, and the Jim Carroll Band’s People Who Died.