Re: Buying records ...
I remember the listening booths in some record shops but I never used them. I'd usually made up my mind beforehand when I'd heard a single on the radio and rushed out to buy it.
When I started work and had enough money to buy albums, again they would have been decided on from tracks I'd heard on the radio.
These days, I'll get recommendations from my friends and get them downloaded, or sometimes I hear songs from a sampler given away by a music magazine.