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If 95% of my music is junk, then I'm leaving the industry! But it's not, so I'll still keep buying music that I love!

I have almost 2000 CDs that were carefully picked because I loved the music. The 200 or so turkeys are because I decided to take a chance.

take it deep

I try not to buy what I'm not gonna like. Maybe 95% of what's out there is crap, but I can improve my percentage with careful selection.

Sometimes there may be only a couple of tracks on some disks that are really exceptional but then again there are those that are to die for, you know what I mean.

This is the percent I truely love

Half of my CD collection is made up of music I frequently listen to. The other half I regretted `buying because I didn't listen to them first.

I only "love" a few CDs beginning to end. While music is a personal thing, I keep turning back to Suzanne Vega's seminal folk classic, "Solitude Standing"; k.d. lang's "dark Ingenue"; and No Doubt's "Ska Tragic Kingdom." I think marketing really plays a strong part in consumers choosing a crap CD that really should be returned to the retailer. I think MP3 is a great equalizer between the consumer, who has always been the sucker, and the recording studios, who have always had the pulse of the the poor buyer's psyche. Since MP3, I have not bought a CD that has only one or two great tracks while the rest are filler. Perhaps music companies will now lose that small proportion (like myself) who will only buy great talent and product and not [be subject to] peer/marketing pressure.

I've often been tempted to dump the dross, but I've been told that it's a reflection of a full character to keep everything and display a complete history of your musical discoveries. I'm still in search of a certain critical mass in my collection, where it's big enough for me to forget what I've got, so that I can rediscover some of it and be delighted. I think there's a long way to go there.

Going through my collection to get this figure, I was surprised by how much stuff didn't really matter to me, and how little of the stuff that did was under a decade old. I must be getting past it . . .

Album tracks bring the percentage down!

I'm VERY selective.

If you're lucky—much more likely in the LP era—some items in your collection will sneak up on you. You're then a beneficiary of dumb luck. Old CDs can be terribly disappointing—I'm especially speaking of reissues.

I own the entire Zappa catalog, the entire Tom Waits catalog, Nick Drake, Todd Rundgren. Most music is crap. But not the stuff that I spend my money on.

The hardest part isn't finding great harware...great recordings are few & far between

I am very picky about what I purchase.

This question doesn't make much sense unless you're a packrat or out to impress the neighbors with the square footage of your record/cd collection. If I don't like something, I give it away, sell it or throw it out.

What a wonderful question to ponder, as I have recently been asking myself that very question. As it turns out, TRUTHFULLY, most of the music I have purchased over the past 30 odd years I can no longer listen to. Thank God for good playback systems and E-Bay!

The most of my music is carefully chosen !

I have much wider musical interests than most people. Furthermore I sell what I don't like.