Figure this must already be a topic that has come up here more than several times.
Just the same, I think it took me a while to track down my First Melvins CD.
It was Live at the fucker club, and I suppose it was just new at the time; therefore In stock locally.
I randomly caught Mombius Hibachi on Much music late one night and was instantly insane about this band!
The next thing I know I'm on a bus downtown to Toronto, and picking up the HONKY LP.
and It was so different than I ever imagined, and It truly and profoundly affected my life forever.
Then I heard LYSOL... and the music has warped my fragile little mind.

and soon after picked up GPT/OZMA and consequently subjected everyone around me to it's awesome power.
(near the time the bootlicker had just come out, so I also scooped those up as they came out as over priced "Imports")
went back and bought Bullhead and Lysol on vinyl (and later scrounged up a used Stag LP)...and if that wasn't enough, the record store dude looked at my purchases and said : oh, hey, you know The Melvins are playing in Toronto in a few weeks from now, we got tickets right here if you want?....

two days after my 16th Birthday!!! and I'm not ashamed to admit it was the first "real" concert I ever attended, and it has shadowed everything I've done with my life since.
Those were still the best years of my life so far.
What about you?