It sounded better at the store

Everything sounds better to me on listening stations than they do at home. I need a better hi-fi I think. (Do they still call them hi-fi's?)

if your hi-fi sounds worse than those crappy listening stations with the rotted headphones, yes, you do need to get a better one. To answer the question, the listening station is useful but if it isn't something I already was thinking about getting, I use them with caution. I listened to Pete Yorn on one recently and it sounded kind of like good power pop, but I knew it was something I should stay away from. To answer the actual question, I guess it hasn't really happened to me that I can remember. I did stumble into a KMart with a terrible hangover one time and buy "Vac-Man, Stretch Armstrong's Arch-enemy," it looked really cool anyway. Conversely, awhile back I heard a best of Nick Gilder CD playing in a store and it inspired me to pick up a bunch if his records for a couple bucks each. No disappointment, they are decent, and "Hot Child in the City" is a greeeat song.

yes - "orange" by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. Stephen Pastel was playing it in the store and I was floored. Although it took me about two years to hate it once I'd gotten it home, I still think it counts.

anything by joan of arc.

there must be a special add-on module for the record shop stereo system that makes tim kinsella's voice actually sound in tune and melodic. not so on the home system.