The frontman owns a massive record collection and, as of 2005, he regularly traveled to Japan with John Zorn to buy albums. Patton is not "so sensitive to musical climates" and believes that some of the best art tends to "fall through the cracks", thus he invests a considerable amount of time in search of non-mainstream artists. This was one of his reasons for the establishment of Ipecac Recordings. In 1999, Patton told: "I like going into some place like store Amoeba and saying 'O.K. what's gonna change my life today?'" Patton's favorite moment during a promotional cycle in 1995 was to spend $20.000 on a jazz record binge with his bandmate Bordin in Paris, France. In 2010, he wrote a testimonial for Record Store Day as support for those independent businesses, calling them his "candy shops!"