Want a better music collection?
Posted by Jared | 4:44 am
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Then make a bid:
“For sale is 3 million record albums and 300,000 CDs; rare and out-of-print titles, all varieties of American music from classical to hip-hop. But it’s much more than vinyl and jewel cases.
“It’s the history of music,” says Paul Mawhinney, the owner or Record Rama Sound Archives in Pine. “It’s my life’s work.” Mawhinney, 69, is reluctantly parting with a collection he started more than 40 years ago. Legally blind and fighting diabetes, he wants to spend more time with his five grandchildren. The collection is worth millions of dollars—Mawhinney’s personal estimate is at least $50 million—but he has received only one solid offer. He aims to sell the collection by March 1.”
Here’s an idea… this could all be digitally converted and put into like a 900 Gb Ipod or digital database and I bet it wouldn’t be all that difficult to maintain. Then again, maybe the history is in the vinyl’s…
[...] Remember the world’s largest record collection that i blogged about back in February? Well it still hasn’t sold and all thats being asked for it is 3 million dollars… Theres an excellent video on the front page of Hypebeast today. Check it out: The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo. I can’t believe with all the rich folks out there that nobody will buy this. I certainly would if I had the money. Can’t someone turn it into a music museum or something? [...]
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