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> I've been to DVD/CD 2nd-hand-stores. They're an absolute crap shoot but for half to one dollar for a disc, eh. I've been know to take a certain risk.
I´ve been in a few of those and yeah, the presentation leaves...a lot to be desired but what matters the most is that you find a great offer (if you know what you are looking for).

> I had pretty much no idea what they were talking about and I don't think my stay enriched my musical knowledge.
let me sum it up for you. There is even more shitposting and bait threads than /mlp/´s catalog. Except for a few generals, the rest is about displaying elitism, political discussion in certain news and memes about reviewers or certain specific records. 

There are a few tools from /mu/ that anyone should be aware though: 

Topsters (for creating a chart about the records that you like so others can recommend you more stuff that you might like according to what you usually listen to), Rateyourmusic (for knowing the ratings and checking out the discography of each artist and thus, you see the most popular or praised record of that band/musician), Bandcamp/Soundcloud (for supporting small artists directly, you know about this site though), Soulseek (for downloading the albums), Last FM (a media player that recommends you more music according to what you listen without asking anyone else) and the /mu/ sticky as a guide for everything about that board (the records they normally like and what language they use in certain threads):

https://rateyourmusic.com/
https://www.neverendingchartrendering.org/
https://www.slsknet.org/news/
https://bandcamp.com/
https://www.last.fm/
http://4chanmusic.wikia.com/wiki/Sticky


Without lurking on that board, I am introducing all the material that the board uses in a daily basis. I could also add Discogs for buying a specific release of any record, it´s almost like an Amazon/Wikipedia shop that displays all the versions fabricated over time of any specific album. 

After using this post as a huge advertisement of that board, at least, I have shown here a fair amount of features in order to understand how it works.

In a board about ponies...yeah, because it totally makes sense. Still, it should be useful for anyone really so despite describing the core behind /mu/, this should work for anything related to music on the internet in general.