All my real life friends have shit taste in music, so I really only pay attention to the one stoner friend who drives me home everyday after baseball practice (sometimes after I'm forced to be there for drug deals... yippee! ~_~).
Other than that, I pay attention to what my history teacher plays in class, or what he puts on his website
here. (Also his Best of 2006 list can be found
here, in case anybody cares. worth checking out, after seing how much music he listens to).
And besides all that, I use the internet. Last.fm, primarily. Wikipedia secondarily. Muzikaddict thirdidarily.
And yeah, if I already know which album I have in mind, I'll just search for it on blog search engines, where it's quite popular to UL massive amounts of albums for pirates to find easily.
oh, and that one forum I go to, which specilizes in uploading albums you ask for (if they have it, at least, but mostly everyone there has over 40 gb of music, at least, so chances are usually good...).
Oh, and Doctor used to be a big help to me, but now he's poo, so yeah.
