Even as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out about bands. It's kind of the same way these days. In a way even less because there are no record stores to go to anymore.
My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.
The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.