CD and/or LP collections. Is it about the music?


The question has been asked many times and in different ways about how much your system cost, or what componants you have but I have another question.
How many CDs, LPs, SACDs, 8-tracks, or cassettes do you own? It's only fair to ask since this is really about the music isn't it?
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Somewhere around 600 cds, 100 LPs in a box-- I buy every CD I can find that I want (a function of being a DINK and having poor impulse control)-- BUT-- I just don't find that much that I want to buy.

How the heck do you folks with 3000+ CDs/LPs find that many you want to listen to? I always thought I had pretty varied musical tastes-- I just find that even in genres I love, I find a lot of CDs I don't like for whatever reason.

Do you buy a lot that look good, listen to them once and shelve them or do you really like and listen to them all? Just curious.
Hrm. I think I'm as prone to "streaks" as the rest of you-- a streak being when you find, for example, a dead blues harmonica player you'd previously never heard of, buy all of his albums, then read the liner notes and buy the albums of his major influences, etc.

Maybe my problem is I tend to listen to discs before I buy, which usually means through crappy PC speakers or music store headphones, and in that brief exposure I don't get a true sense of the music and I'm passing good stuff by.

Ha, I just defined "problem" as having only 600 CDs instead of 4000. Only on Audiogon...