Throw it out!

My interest in music is mostly in the jazz genre. I have often bought records that had music I did not fully appreciate and then pulled them out later to find my taste had either changed or matured to the point that I later found them enjoyable. These got moved from the back of my collection to the front and I as happy to have not disposed of them. I used to pull out and play Miles' Bitches Brew once a year until I finally understood it. Consequently, I never throw anything out unless it is damaged or replaced with a better copy.

What if you change tor mind?  I have had many bad first listens to recordings, only to revise an opinion on subsequent hearing.  Sometimes it was the mood I was in on the first hearing.  Other times, in Classical Music, I can be imprinted by my initial acquaintance with a given piece, and at first hearing just dismiss an alternative but equally valid approach as just plain’wrong’, and then reverse that judgement upon rehearing.

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I am fortunate to have a New/Used store near by. I have found that some of my "losers" generate enough value to pick up something new (or used, but new to me). The ones that are just plain crap are donated to Salvation Army and end up next to Montovani's Christmas Music 1964

When I was young and listened to mostly rock, I would have thrown out any jazz music, today I would do the opposite. Thankfully I have kept everything in case of another "polar inversion".