My father raised me right on new wave, and power pop.
The first piece of music I ever bought was a cassingle by Brandy "Baby, Baby". Shortly after I got caught up with the music on MTV in the mid to late nineties which soon lead to quasi-punk music then the real thing. MY teens and early twenties were spent in musty basements watching punk bands play from all over. HearAttack and MRR were my bible. While in college I started to branch out to hip hop, and soul and have since started to listen to a pretty wide variety of music.
I tend to buy one or two albums a week, most come from Flea Markets and Junk Shops. I appreciate the big pay off when digging through beat up Herb Alpert and christmas records brings me to a real gem.