AWKWARD ZOMBIE

I'm mainly into classical music so things are a little different for me. Usually I get interested in a new piece by reading about it on Wikipedia or hearing others talk about it, once I've settled on the piece I start looking for a good recording of it - amazon's user review or friends usually help me with that.

mostly i just listen to songs people send me and Radio 1

so my playlists include of shit like the Stubbs the Zombie soundtrack (which is awesome may i add), the Shaft theme tune and the Rice and Curry song

Radio Disney

Norwegian Folk

Mostly through the televison (like, Top 40 or something). That's not to say I listen to everything on it - i.e. I don't like rap. And sometimes through that Youtube 'similar searches' thing.

I listen to 80s bands that I missed because I did not exist then.

This Is Serious, Mum is an awesome band.

I usually use either wikipedia, youtube, Encyclopedia Metallum, XM Radio or good ol fashioned Word-of-Mouth to discover new music.
And I listen to mostly Heavy Metal, Black Metal, Thrash and Classic Rock.

Join a fan made forum of one of your favorite bands.

I joined Collected Animals about a year ago when I was big into the Animal Collectives. I owe a lot of my current taste to that forum.

Also, these types of forums generally don't look down upon file sharing, if you know what I mean.

Word of mouth, or stuff I hear people listening to that grabs my attention.
I'm into Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, at the moment.