that place is awesome. i feel bad for people that don't live in the area (though i've pointed a great deal of people to their site).
i rarely buy albums new because they're well expensive. so it's always a big deal if i actually purchase a new album. then it's even more rare for me to buy an album that has been newly released, as i tend to buy older stuff.
i get a large chunk of my cd's from thrift stores, yard sales, used cd shops, etc. i am also a believer in buying the whole thing because there's nothing like actually having it in your hands, reading the inner sheets, the artwork, and of the like... an experiece one cannot get by downloading an album.
oh, i do download things. mostly i download one or two songs from an artist where i wouldn't bother buying a whole cd just for one or two songs. occasionally i'll download an album but it's usually either hard for me to find or from a band that i really love. like i downloaded Weird Al's early albums, to close up some holes in my collection (which is only three cd's), and i downloaded a few Sonic Youth albums, because they have seemingly thirty and i only own four.
and i've been doing a bunch of borrowing cd's from the library and ripping them onto the computer. this is the modern version of what i did as a kid, which was borrowing a tape and dubbing songs onto a blank cassette. good times, great memories.