Man. I remember using all my money on Hits4Kids and Absolute Music and other Compilation CD's with hit songs. I watched MTV all the time (This was back when it was actually about music) but I never really found, you know,
my music.
Then one day, totally by accident, a friend forgot his Red Hot Chili Peppers CD at my moms place when he was visiting me, and I listened to it because "why not?"
I was never the same again. I remember sitting in front of my shitty little ghetto-blaster in a complete trance, because I had never heard music this good. Then it just rolled from there. System of a Down, Eminem, Korn, Disturbed, Judas Priest, Maiden, 50-Cent, Cannibal Corpse, Pink Floyd etc. etc.
Now'a'days I still wish to hug my childhood friend sometimes - Without him I probably wouldn't be the one I am today