# of albums liked / # of albums bought = music batting average

Spade Kitty's is around .347 i think. not great, but not piss poor either.

I think that depends on your definition of like.

Enjoy listening to whenever I hear it = .850
On regular rotation months after purchase = .400

define your own likes i suppose. or ask yourself: "Do I consider this album to be a hit?"

Well played.

Give it .675 then (edit)

Sketch is currently leading the league...

I think I'm batting .900!
But I've only bought 10 or so albums.

46/54 or .852

edit: That's just for 2006 releases. If you include older albums, it would be much higher. I bought a lot more old albums than 2006 releases and I can't think of any of those that I don't like.

are you kidding me?

i obtained over 400 releases so far this year.....600 if ya include all the various crap that appeared on my desk, that i never bothered to document in my purchase thread.

i could glance it over, but to make an honest assessment, i'd say 20%

I don't know, seeing as I preview nearly every album before I buy it to make sure I like it, I'm probably close to 100%.

IMO, its piss poor if you are spending $ and you like slightly more than 1/3 of what you buy

yeah but he's not even at the Mendoza-line level, give 'im a break.

Hm, i don't know if that's enough at bats to qualify...

I'm an AL pitcher (former NL) who can hit just well enough to be used as an occasional pinch hitter.

2006 Konstantiranks (out of 47 albums currently rated)

8.00 and above ALL TIME CLASSIC
7.50 - 7.99 BRILLIANT
7.25 - 7.49 VERY GOOD
7.00 - 7.24 GOOD
6.75 - 6.99 QUITE GOOD
6.50 - 6.74 REASONABLE
6.25 - 6.49 NOT GOOD
6.00 - 6.24 POOR
5.50 - 5.99 VERY POOR
5.00 - 5.49 AWFUL
4.99 and below ALL TIME STINKER

0 albums 8.00 or over
1 album 7.50 or over
9 albums 7.25 or over
18 albums 7.00 or over
34 albums 6.75 or over
41 albums 6.50 or over
6 albums 6.49 or below

Can I consider albums I'm glad I own for one or two songs but don't like overall sacrifice flys or walks?

I'd say I'm somewhere around the .350-.400 mark.

fair enough. that's a lotta bench-riding though...

35/41 = .854

Only bought 3 albums that would consider to really be weak or bad: Excepter, Jesu, and Terrestrial Tones. A few others that are OK but I may not keep: Spank Rock, Black Heart Procession, and Junior Boys.

Mine was just a ballpark figure

Let's see what it really is

Here's the 2006 albums I've bought and liked:
Built to Spill - You In Reverse
Cheap Trick - Rockford
Justin Timberlake - Futuresexxx/Love Sounds
Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
Mission of Burma - The Obliterati
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Paper Airplane Pilots - Western Automatic Music
Three Fifths - It's Worth it For the Rumors

Purchased 2006 albums I didn't like:
Frank Black - Fast Man Raider Man
Minus 5 - Gun Club
Mars Volta - Amputechture
Wolfmother - S/T
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
Razorlight - S/T
Robert Pollard - From a Compound Eye

8/15 for about 52%, but two of them were my own label's releases, which don't really count.

I've also downloaded and really liked YLT and TVoTR and I kind of like the Magic Numbers album. Also, at least 3 of the 5 albums I bought yesterday (M. Ward, Hold Steady and Loose Fur) are sounding really good.

Yeah, I'm probably batting close to .800 on old albums in 2006.

I'm not sure how many I have actually purchased this year, but of the amount of albums I have received, I would say about anywhere from a .666 to a .750, and that is being conservative.

exactly homie. 100%.

This is pretty much correct for me too, but then I remembered the Isobell Campbell & Mark Lanegan album I bought. So I grounded back to the pitcher once.

Somewhere between 0.812 and 0.875.

There's only one I bought and dislike. But there's two I bought, was quite disappointed in, and haven't really played again.

i dunno. i've got about 250 purchases but some of them are dvd's and games and a lot of the cd's i've bought aren't new either. this is too complicated. i quit.