Pickup is like any other product, it depends on what you want from it. For eg, if you ask for a shirt recommendation, it depends on where you're going to wear it. If you ask for a stereo speaker recommendation, it depends on whether you're playing it in the car, your apartment, a party or somewhere else. I could recommend the expensive set up but it won't make sense if you want something for a 1 bedroom dorm room. So, what do you want to do? Do you want one night stands from the nightclub? Do you want to be able to hold conversations with groups of people? Do you want to be the smooth guy who picks up women on the street and goes on dates?

and yes I want and need to learn how to hold an emotional conversation with groups and to talk random women on the street, and make through the date successfully.
bottom line is that I want to practice and have skills so that one day when I meet a woman for life - it will be piece of cake (And on the way picking great women to the bed)

Chief - can you giving details about the most popular methods? It's kind of depressing for me to hear that I'm learning "the bottom of the pile" haha..