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it is really hard to comb through all the crap, but others are on a similar quest and should be willing to shair their finds with the rest of us who have so little time to search....

Love, like oil, needs to be changed every now and then. New music, once in a while, nudges out the old.

I own probably around 400 discs. I would say 15% of what I own is "special"; the rest have a few songs here and there that I like, but on the whole aren't all that great.

I love approximately 20% of the songs in my collection. But each individual CD in the collection has at least one song on it that I love; that's why I bought it. So if you look at it that way, I have a loving place in my heart for every CD in my collection.

I've don't have a single bad CD. But I'm only 17 years old; I still have a long way to go.

If I didn't love it I would not have bought it in the first place. Besides a few trails I bought that didn't turn out like I had planned I love my music collection.

Although much may not be 5-star sound, I try to research recordings (classical) before I decide which version to purchase. I sell off the ones I don't love except the pop/rock which gather dust after a while more often than not.

Quality rules! I don't waste my money on crapy music.

I only buy if and when I'm sure I really love what I'm buying. The rest are gifts!

I suppose that it makes sense that we grow out or become tired of music that we buy. Just like any other product, music has a life span but we don't get rid of the CD's when we tire of them. It stands to reason then that the proportion of our music that we are indifferent to continues to grow.

If ya can't stand to listen to it, there are always used CD & Record stores that will take it off your hands.

I only buy good stuff!!

Martha Argerich's live versions of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto #1 in non-wimpy (read poetical) performances with Rach #3. Or Karajan's first Beethoven cycle on DG with the master playing the Berlin Orchestra as if it were one instrument. It doesn't get any better than this.

I've purchased a lot of crap along the way. My tastes are always evolving and most of my collection doesn't stand the test of time. (I didn't stoop as low as to purchase a single piece of music from Barry Manilow or the Bee Gees.) Poorly mastered CDs from the '80s don't help. But I enjoy my collection of pop, jazz, R&B, and classical. Stevie Ray Vaughan still gets me movin', whether on CD or LP—pure magic.

Great question. And although I like most LPs and CDs I own, when it comes to "glorious" music I'd have to say "under 10%." Think about it: If everything we owned was glorious music, we'd never get anything else done in our lives!

I have a small collection, about 400 CDs. I think each purchase over very carefully, using reviews, research, and the Internet. I don't buy crap!

It's difficult to find great music but not impossible.. even more difficult to find an entire cd of great music!

80% classical, including many Mercury Living Presence and RCA Living Stereo remasters. Generally peppy stuff, incl. Liszt, Sousa, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Sousa. VERY little baroque, despite what the experts tell me I should like.

But getting better!

I listen to all sorts of things; I'm not afraid to buy music I haven't heard or read a review of. Of course, some experiments turn out better than others. But, basically, everything I keep, I am very fond of.

If I don

its not that the music is bad, its the recording quality, compared to newer,better recordings the older music in my collection pales.

I don't love anything that can't love me back. But I enjoy the hell out of lots of my collection.

Love is a strong word.

Tough question...

Truth, beauty, and resonance are found through discretion, therefore by nature are rare.

I love most of my music collection, whether it be my primarily classical collection or my jazz and rock. It is easy to find what music you really hate; you simply never return to it. In addition, if you have heard a piece of music so often that it becomes hackneyed, put it away, take a rest, forget it; when you return to it later, you will discover nuances you had missed before. Sturgeon's Law is probably true, although not as high as 95% of all music is crap. However, 95% of all modern pop, (c)rap, house, garage, techno, remixes is crap!

Roger Tory Peterson detested the term "bird lover," even though he cherished our feathered friends. He maintained that "love" involved a measure of reciprocity that was wholly absent from the avian–homo sapiens relationship, and that to speak of "loving" birds was to debase the word "love." In a like vein, I don't acutally "love" any of my music collection. I do, however, cherish over 80% of it, and would feel impoverished if I could no longer listen to it.

If I didn't love it, I wouldn't buy it.

I only spend my hard earned money on something that I