that secret place where no one dares to go

so, after several years of standing in record stores with Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea in my hand, and ultimately not buying it, i finally picked it up on Saturday, along with Summer in Abbadon by Pinback. the Pinback album is pretty good, but i cannot stop listening to NMH. it makes me want to learn how to play guitar, so i can sit and self-indulgently play and sing the songs to myself. anybody else have an album that made them want to learn an instrument? and did you?