Decent Collection

[Northeastbeast]

5,000,000+ records.

Aye, but show us your 45's.

;-)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31874121?post_id=509697292_10152829162127293#_=_

 

[chas_kit]

This has been in the news for some time. The guy is an idiot. Probably has dozens of copies each of common titles, in unplayable condition.

 

[Frantic]

This has been in the news for some time. The guy is an idiot. Probably has dozens of copies each of common titles, in unplayable condition.

Why is he a idiot...because he has a lot of money and buys lots of records?

 

[chas_kit]

Why is he a idiot...because he has a lot of money and buys lots of records?

Because he buys by the pallet, with no quality control. He literally has dozens, maybe hundreds of copies of the same common records, and condition probably ranges from mint to poor. He doesn't even know what he has.

 

[Frantic]

He has so many records that he had to hire a staff of employs to catalog his records. Also, he has 100s of the same rare records. The guy isn't a idiot unless of course you are the jealous type.

 

[chas_kit]

what rare records? Distortions or $100 Fine by the Litter? Kenny & the Kasuals? Rising Storm? The Ones on Audio House? any of the other great and truly rare LPs?

Nope, it's all $1 bin rejects.

I'm not jealous. If you have 50 beater copies of Brain Salad Surgery, you think I'd be jealous?!

And his boast about sharing the collection with the world, what does that mean? He doesn't have rights to anything. When he's gone his collection will be sold off for pennies on the dollar and Brazil will have a glut of lousy classic rock and easy listening.

Nice he got some attention for himself but otherwise this is a joke.

 

[Frantic]

You need to go read other articles about his collection. He has the best collection on earth. Don't know where you got your info.

 

[chas_kit]

I'd like to know where you got your info. I read the NY Times article from last year that said this:

Paul Mawhinney, a former music-store owner in Pittsburgh, spent more than 40 years amassing a collection of some three million LPs and 45s, many of them bargain-bin rejects that had been thoroughly forgotten. The world’s indifference, he believed, made even the most neglected records precious: music that hadn’t been transferred to digital files would vanish forever unless someone bought his collection and preserved it.​

Mawhinney spent about two decades trying to find someone who agreed .... last year, a friend of Mawhinney’s pointed him toward a classified ad in the back of Billboard magazine:​

RECORD COLLECTIONS. We BUY any record collection. Any style of music. We pay HIGHER prices than anyone else.​

Plus he bought 200,000 records from Colony Records when it closed in 2012. Couldn't have been much of worth left in those stacks by 2012.

5,000,000 records, there must be something good in there, but I think the vast majority is total junk. I can't believe this is the best collection in the world.

 

[chas_kit]

The Times has a link to what he called his rarest records, and #1 was a grubby signed copy of Duke Ellington's New Orleans Suite from 1970. BIG DEAL!!

 

[mr. splendid]

From what I gather it's an accumulation not a collection . A collection always involves a goal IMO . Even if the goal is to own every record ever released you'd try to come up with a list of what you still need . This guy seems to believe that if he buys huge amounts he will eventually own every record . Of course he'd never know for sure because he'd need to know what's out there first . Also if that's his listening equipment it's pretty crappy !

 

[chas_kit]

From what I gather it's an accumulation not a collection . A collection always involves a goal IMO . Even if the goal is to own every record ever released you'd try to come up with a list of what you still need . This guy seems to believe that if he buys huge amounts he will eventually own every record . Of course he'd never know for sure because he'd need to know what's out there first . Also if that's his listening equipment it's pretty crappy !

All those rare records and what does he put on, Johnny Winter doing "Jumpin' Jack Flash"

 

[Frantic]

Somewhere there's a video of him showing off his Blue Note/Jazz collection that was insane. Not to mention his 1000s of rare psych records. When his crew seperates the wheat from the chaff it's going to blow minds.

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

You need to go read other articles about his collection. He has the best collection on earth. Don't know where you got your info.

The best collection in the world resides in Australia.

 

[Frantic]

The best collection in the world resides in Australia.

I meant biggest (but amazing) and we are talking about lps.

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

Okay, I'll allow it's the biggest.

 

[MopTopMike]

With 5 million LPs, I would expect to discover a few rare things mixed with the junk.

It's not about the total amount, it is about the percentage of valuable records (in demand titles that will bring serious collector money) in the load. How many bins of Montavani LPs are there? 250?

I agree with the accumulator title - unfocused with intent to hoard any recording will-nilly does not make for a collection, or collector.

The Sydney Bunker Archive CANNOT be topped

 

[Frantic]

With 5 million LPs, I would expect to discover a few rare things mixed with the junk.

It's not about the total amount, it is about the percentage of valuable records (in demand titles that will bring serious collector money) in the load. How many bins of Montavani LPs are there? 250?

I agree with the accumulator title - unfocused with intent to hoard any recording will-nilly does not make for a collection, or collector.

The Sydney Bunker Archive CANNOT be topped

Sorry guys. I saw a video of him showing off alot of the good stuff. It was amazing. I'll spend a little more time looking for it later. The guy has a lot of money and buys out stores and private collections all over the world. Believe me his stuff is insane. And once again, I am talking about his LP collection. He has 1000s of boxes of 45s too but didn't show any of them off.

 

[HarvestmanMan]

Even if he does have a lot of good stuff, he also has a lot of junk from the sound of it. I gather that the same cannot be said for the likes of collections like the Sydney Bunker.

 

[Frantic]

Even if he does have a lot of good stuff, he also has a lot of junk from the sound of it. I gather that the same cannot be said for the likes of collections like the Sydney Bunker.

LAST TIME....I'm talking about his lp collection!!!!

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

Does he have the Missing Links?