a little luck and knowledge will get you by....

I mean granted I have a couple of suck ass CD's in my collection but if you do your homework you should be fine... A old tool that I use to use was the old school Blockbuster Music booths. I actually discovered DYWM way back in 1995 there. The new store today is FYE. you just scan the bar code and you can listen to it before you buy. Not to mention snippets on the internet helps a lot too. But mostly I stick with Producers when I buy, if its a producer that Im fond of (ie. Soul Supreme, Kev Brown) then it's an automatic purchase until they get wack, hence I have "some" wack ones in there.