The four (and eventually, five) high school girls of K-ON! have a little of that ambition, but at first all they want to do is be together. K-ON! (compare prices for the show) is the story of how their casual afternoon "light music club" turns by degrees into something far more adventurous.
K-ON! is a mix between roughly two kinds of anime: the "slice-of-life" story and the "subject-matter" story. The former is easy enough to explain -- it's more about the ebb and flow of everyday life than an overarching plotline, with each episode being more or less self-contained. Azumanga Daioh, kimi ni todoke, Peach Girl, Super GALS!, and maybe Arakawa Under the Bridge (if you like your slices of life to be very weird).
The latter, the subject-matter story, is the sort of thing anime does often: pick a very specific subject, study it thoroughly, and make the details of that subject into the basis for a story. Antique Bakery did this with (as you can imagine) baking; Hikaru no Go did this with the game of go; and many sports anime (Prince of Tennis, Slam Dunk, Initial D) build big chunks of their plotlines or character development around the mastery of techniques. Here, though, the slice-of-life side wins out, which goes a long way towards explaining the show's
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