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I'm ruthless. If I don't LOVE a recording (for performance or sound quality or both), I trade it in on my next visit to Recycled Records!

There would be more if so many LP's were not poorly pressed.

It's amazing how our tastes change over the years. A large percentage of my LPs and CDs never get played anymore.

2% or less for sure. I like crap! And the music companies do their best to fufill my needs at all times. Of course, the quality of your playback will actually determine just how much glory there is to your music.

I do have some awful stuff but most of my CD's have been bought as result of listening first or recomendendations from people like Fanfare, and Penguin.

Poor sound quality ruins some otherwise great discs. One is often forced to accept poor or fair sonics to get great music, or to accept vapid music in order to get great sonics.

It's all good, except for the crappy Blazing Redheads LP I keep around for sonic candy purposes!

21–30% I'm in love with. Another 30% or so I'm in like with. The rest I should trade in, but you never know when those Bay City Rollers LPs will become popular again.

I love all my music, even the 95% that's crap. I can't imagine what my world would be without my music

CDs for sale.

I'm not wealthy enough to buy stuff I don't like!

What I love depends mostly in the mood. Sometimes I'll just listen to a few particular cds in a given month. Sometimes I become my own dj

don't buy it unless you love it

I sell the crap, hence most of what I have I love - simple!

It is a reductive fallacy to assert that 95% of everything is one thing. I'm certain the author of this statement intended provocation rather than elucidation. That being said, I would like to say that the majority of my record collection contains some pretty great music! If it's no good, throw it out. Shelf space is at a premium in our house.

I may love 85% of my CD collection, but that's only 'cause I buy carefully. I dislike 99% of music I see in the shops.

My percentage is high because I don't keep a CD for my collection unless, after listening, I believe I will enjoy listening to it AT LEAST several more times. I return to my CDs over and over again at different times, even though it may be a while due to volume. But I usually re-enjoy them again. If I can't feel this about a new CD I buy, it gets thrown out.

Sadly, out of my modest collection there is only about 10% of the music that stirs my emotions and raises goosebumps. I need more quality vinyl . . . help me, Mikey, please!

So many CDs, yet there is never anything to listen to.

I do constant sweeps of my collection and add the less-than-desirable discs to my "sell" pile. These discs are generally impulse buys gone wrong, CDs I bought for one song, outright dead dogs, or things that I used to like. Once I've collected enough, I trade them in at my local CD shop, and, yes, buy more CDs. I've managed to keep my collection rather "pure" this way. It hasn't been economical; I'd estimate around 6000 CDs/tapes/LPs have passed through my hands, and my "stable" collection is only about 1500 strong. At the average price of $15 per CD and $4 trade-in value, if you do the math . . . argh. I probably could have afforded Pipedreams (and the house to put them in) had I been a bit more discerning in my purchases.

I don't buy crap!! Pretty much all the music that I have I love, but sometimes I'm not in the mood for certain kinds, even for months at a time.

I constantly weed my collection, usually within a few weeks of acquiring a new disc. However, my sell/trade pile has grown—I've gotten a little lazy about bringing them back to the used dealer.

I love 75% of my music, but only when I listen with my glasses (and ocassionally my underwear)off!

A simple test is to consider which LPs or CDs you are willing to trade in for a new selection. In my case that comes down to few LPs that are so scratched that I fear for the mechanical integrity of my stylus, and a couple of CDs that were inadvertantly used as Frisbees (Frisbettes?). Anything else I will keep, at least until I have to move. Ergo, I love them all, even the ones I really hate!

Forty percent I "love," 30% I "like a lot," 30% I "like." I traded the crap.

Times change, tastes change. I even have some Tom Waits in my collection.

Truly, at least 95% of all art (in any form)—or anything else, for that matter—is crap.

The better my system gets, the more difficult it is to find music I now find to be pleasing.

I love music that generally has some quality to it. While it may not be the best sound quality, it should at least reflect some talent.

what I LOVE depends, in part, on the quality of the recording ... I prefer SACD and vinyl ...