the largest record collection for sale!!!
 

This dude has got the most gigantic record collection EVER. Due to health issues, he has to get rid of them. His collection was estimated to 50 million dollars and he's asking 3 million. 83 % of the collection is just totally unavailable / unbuyable anywhere for any price. CHECK OUT THE VIDEO, it's heartwrenching; the dood loves his records....

:eek: thats a lot of records!!!

oh my god.
I am really feeling this guy. this is truly sad in a really tragic way.

Wow! Impressive collection... like Bytor said, some rich-fuck corporate label, association, pop-star, etc... should help this guy to preserve these recordings. Sad that no one cares...

Damn, that's just heartbreaking. I wonder why he can't sell it if it's worth as much as the video says it is. You'd figure his phone line would be jammed with serious buyers with a collection like that.

haha, i wish ;)

I probably have a FEW he hasn't got but he has millions that i don't have, you would need a sepearte house to keep all those in.

so fucking rad

and really heartbreaking :(

I dont think selling his record collection is the answer though. There has got to be plenty of people out there that can help him get back into shape and manage the diabetes. So he can still enjoy what he's collected..

This must be the hundredth time he's tried to sell it, he'll never win.

If I was a millionaire I'd buy it

I've never been to his record store unfortunately.

Sad. He'd have more chance of selling if he sold records individually (and he could get more money), I don't think people with that kind of money would want a massive record collection.

holy shit, its huge. how does he know and how does he have the time to listen to everything?

I wouldn't like to own this, it would be way too much and I couldnt keep up with it.

hmm i heard about this a while back. figured they'd be sold by now..

I wanna steal every record he owns.

He should give them all to me, I'd keep them in good hands.

I don;t understand why the Smithsonian Institute or the Library of Congress, or a music centered university like Indiana at Bloomington does not buy this archive for preservation purpouses alone. fuck. what a sad sad fucking thing.
I share his pain. I don;t have anywhere near that many records but what I have means a lot to me and to know, to hear repeatedly, how no one wants to share what you have managed to gather, is fucking brutal.

like he said, nearly 85% of his archive is completely unaailable on CD, or on harddrives for the music thieves/downloaders

As Bytor Peltor said , he didn't listen to all of his records.
He is 69x365x24=604440 hours , for 2.5 millions records.
Buying records and not listening to them , I find this pointless.

Yet , I suppose there are some unknown gems in his collection , but I guess it's mostly RnRoll , and I don't even enjoy Elvis Presley.

Oddly enough , some institutions are ready to preserve books and movies from the past , even if nobody cares , but not records.

85% of the stuff released between 1940-something and 1960-something, wasn't it, not 85% of everything?

everything before the 40's was on shellac, not vinyl. I am sure the numbers for the 70's and 80's is not so high, but at least 50% of everything from the 70's and 80's is out of print like a mug.

UNKNOWN GEMS? You crazy???? with over 1 million LP's he has at least 100 thousand unknown gems man!!!! he has jazz, religious, blues, gospel, rock n roll, everything. he amassed an ARCHIVE. when you collect to create an archive, you know you will not be able to listen to everything.

I have around 1500 LP's and around 1000 singles and I have yet to listen to them all, but when I want to listen to Billy Squier's THE STROKE, I know I got it.

Oh!!
You think one unknown record out of ten is a gem??

Well my ratio is much lower , I'd say one out of a hundred is very good ( and it only applies for punk or related records ).

more than 2.5 million, damn.

even if one out of a hundred of his records is a lost GEM that means he has TWENTYFIVE THOUSAND LOST GEMS, that's more records than i will own in my LIFE

you gotta get a grasp of what it means to have a MILLION of anything.

I'm 100% sure that westernquinoxrocks owns more than 2500000 records by mesrbozw and wolves eyes

What does it mean to have a million of anything?

start counting and get back to me when you reach a million. I may be 89 years old, but get back to me.

I'm asking you , I thought you know what it's about.

It is just an incrompehensible amount of ANYTHING to have

that's very cool - shame he has to sell it.

i really agree with the fact that some library should buy it. It's an archive goddamn it.

I'm not sure this is the best arguement for your position Rob

You know I gots to make it ridiculous.

But for real, put this song on and listen to the guitar, especially before and during the verses. It does cool harmonic accents, which make me rawk.

holy christ.

I wonder if he has any wolves eyes.

edit: damn you syrfox!

i read about this guy on another message board and apparently he's a complete idiot, he sells the sleeves of records separately to the records and prices everything as if it was in mint condition & original pressing, when most of it isn't, and from what i understand there's no rhyme or reason to anything he buys, he just buys anything at random so the majority of his collection is junk and he doesn't know the difference, so it's kind of his own fault that he's going out of business and nobody wants to buy all his shit.

o interesting to know

his archive still rules all though.

I know a guy that went and looked at his collection. He stayed a week and dug for 10-12 hours a day. The guy I know literally bought 30 records. The guys (archive man's) collection was mostly 3-10x per copy of pedestrian mainstream garbage. Yes there were nice records in the archive but, most of the ''real'' gems were picked back in the 90's by the japanese.

Here too, I think SY should go jam on Eternal songs down there and make a video. Maybe even play the whole piece (new record) and wouldn't that be a beautiful thing?