as a kid I listened to Kiss, AC/DC, Judas Priest and stuff like that...then I discovered an album named "In god we trust Inc." by Dead Kennedys, I kinda liked the album design (Jesus on a cross made of dollar bills), so I just bought it without listening to it first. when I first listened to the album at home I was thinking "huh? must be a mistake, this is no maxi-single for 45rpm, it must be a LP for 33rpm" because they played so damn fast...
after listening to it a couple of times (on 45rpm of course
) I began to really like it and my love for punk music was born.. 
luckily I was able to retrieve a lot of the old records I had on CD (duh, I sold all my LPs when I got my first CD player 
), but I would even pay some money if anyone could retrieve the album "Monstren, Mumien, Mutationen" from a german punk group called "SS Ultrabrutal".... 
anyway, maybe we can share some mp3s DNR.... 
ilkjester, I don't discriminate too (ok, I DO hate stuff that is only designed to sell,sell,sell, like Britney Spears and all the clones of her, same for this boygroup crap). rap is ok for me, I like the old school stuff and also some of the older Master P releases, but well, in germany you usually only et the real commercial stuff....an US import CD cost here sometimes more than 50 euro...
