I listen to every album I buy at least once.

Well I don't own these, as in material CD/vinyl/etc form, but they're just there on my computer and I haven't given them a listen yet.

Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
Gulag Orkestar + Lon Gisland EP - Beirut
Pink Moon - Nick Drake
Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
Imperial Bedroom - Elvis Costello

I've got loads of compilations that I can never be arsed to listen to. Invetiably when I pick one from the pile it's shit. I did have a gash-load of charity shop records that we sat in a pile waiting to be listened to, but a weekend's solitude sorted that out late last year.

Every now and then I'll find a record I've forgotten I owned and then give it a bash; actually, there's a record by the Sea Ensemble that I listened to when I got it, twice, and thought it was rubbish; I gave it another bash last year and it's really good. Very difficult to know how one's taste will change.

I need to get rid of some records I think. I've got a plan to stick around the 1,000 records mark and episodically purge to stay around that point. I don't feel like I can feasibly own and realistically listen to more than that.

I've got an HR LP on SST I bought used for a $1 last summer I haven't played yet. And a friend gave me his extra copy of the Awesome Color Cd I still haven't played yet. And the first Norah Jones someone else gave me.

now that I think about it I still haven't listened to the moore/cline/ranaldo/giffoni live CD

Pretty much every I've ever gotten from the $1 bin. I think the idea that I got it for $1 convinces me it's crap by the time I get home.

The Best of R.E.M. CDs. I don't like them. I hoped those would change my mind.

Also, a ton of Aphex Twin stuff that I got too quickly. He has a lot of shit.

Ken Filiano - Subvenire
Electric Tones - Jukebox

Some noise tapes people have randomly sent me.

I have tons of 7" that I got from KRS and various record labels as promos that I've never listened to. That's probably it, though.

my popz sent me some kings of leon records years ago, they STILL never managed to get into my rotation, even after that band blew up all big more recently..

I also took over a year to finally give the Black Keys Attack and Release a chance, and it turned out to be one of my all-time favorite records, but previously I had even seen the Black Keys perform multiple times as opening acts and I never much cared for them, neither do I care much for the pre-A&R records..

rather ripped stands as a testament to anti rock.

something by burial. something by malajube. something by beach house. something by someone who i have no idea who or what they are but the cover looks nice and one song was called " i wet the bed yesterday" so i bought it for 50c in a shop which doesnt usually sell cds. it probably sucks in fact im sure it does suck. ill never listen to it, ever ever ever ever.