Reading "music" reviews on Amazon.com has been helpful for me on many buys. Usually if the CD is rather bad, you hear about it especially if there was tons of hype on the release. I agree with Dr. House that if you read enough of them, they provide a nice "snap shot" of what you should expect. Nothing is absolute however. My genre of music likes has drastically changed over the past 2.5 years and Amazon does a nice job of giving me somewhat useful opinions from that same group that like my type of discs.
