World's largest record collection for sale - $3 million

this man is selling his records which includes more than 6 million songs on 3 million records and 300,000 compact discs. If you were to buy the whole thing on iTunes by the song -- not that you'd be able to find all of them -- the collection would run you $5,940,000 (in that sense, $3 million is a bargain). Amongst his collection, he owns the first record made, from 1881. The library of congress did a study on his collection, and came with the result that from 1948 - 1966, on;y about 17% of his records are available to the public even on cd.
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  • added August 19, 2008
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6 responses // World's largest record collection for sale - $3 million

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    I'm jealous, really, really jealous.

    mattbrawn
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    Damn shame. If nothing else he should will it to archive.org.

    neckfire
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    I had to laugh when he said the world doesn't care about saving things for furture generations. He couldn't be more right !!! We are, for the most part, a society of the here and now. As long as we a satisfied for the moment then that's all that matters. Hell we'll be lucky if the world is even here in 30 years.

    If I were him I would die with my collection. Those are his memories and his legacy and as a collector of antiques myself I find that I am less interested in preserving these items for the future, because of the forementioned reason, as I am preseving them for my own memories. After I'm gone maybe my kids will keep my collection for their memories.

    He should just keep it and will it to someplace like Archive.org like Neckfire suggested.

    huf67
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    How many good records could man that looks like him actually have?

    MrButterCuts
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    A life time to collect but I wonder if he has listened to all of them. I would guess he hasn't and neither will the person who purchases the collection.

    Beta_Boy
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    I though the internet was the worlds biggest record collection.

    good prices too...

    Owwmykneecap

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