99.9% of all my sticks come from the internet. I believe the only reason I would need a B&M establishment would be to try something that I had never had, but in my current situation, I would get in touch with one of my fellow BOTL from one of these forums and ask if they had a spare for me to try in trade or something. That's really how I got turned on to allot of the stuff that I enjoy now was through trades and box passes and so on.
Enjoy,
Paul