Anyone looking for a record collection?

[CasualKiller]

If I only had the money....

http://blog.bowers-wilkins.com/sound...rd-collection/

[4x12]

Originally Posted by CasualKiller

If I only had the money....

http://blog.bowers-wilkins.com/sound...rd-collection/

I know how you feel... its a shame no one made/gave him
a serious offer. There must be TONS of incredible stuff in there.

[un4gvn94538]

wow. that was depressing.
worth 50 mil and asking 3 mil. i wouldnt say no one cares. there are people that do. just not rich enough people.

[citizen]

that guy is ridiculous, i wouldnt buy anything from him

[MrFattBill]

Originally Posted by un4gvn94538

wow. that was depressing.
worth 50 mil and asking 3 mil. i wouldnt say no one cares. there are people that do. just not rich enough people.

Indeed

Originally Posted by citizen

that guy is ridiculous, i wouldnt buy anything from him

Seems a bit harsh

Bill

[ZoetMB]

This is sad. But I think this video is several years old, because I remember seeing something like it before, so I'm wondering what the current status is. Maybe I remember his eBay listing.

I'm surprised that there isn't a University, museum (like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) or a library (like the Library of Performing Arts in NYC) that wouldn't take the collection, but no one would pay $ millions, even if that's what it's worth if you add up all the individual values. (Although the RRHOF could probably afford a $million or two.)

I'm also a little surprised by the numbers of items. Until the advent of cheap digital recording equipment, there simply weren't that many releases. If you add up all the songs to ever make the pop charts, r&b charts and rock charts, it's fewer than 10,000 singles. I realize there were many more records than made the charts, but 1.5 million unique singles and 2.5 million albums of presumably only American releases? If you look at the historical catalogs of the majors (Columbia, RCA, etc.) and important independents, like Atlantic, Motown and Chess, there's a few thousand items in each. So the numbers are a bit hard to believe if they're supposed to represent unique items.

A few other stats that make me doubt the numbers:
- if he bought records 7 days a week for 40 years, he would have had to purchase almost 240 records a day to cumulate 3.5 million records (1.5 million singles and 2.5 million LPs). Even if this was over 50 years, he still would have had to purchase over 1300 records a week.
- if you figure 5 LPs to the linear inch he would need 70 racks, each five rows high and 100 feet long to store just the LPs. Figuring 10 singles to the linear inch, he would need another 13 racks, each 10 rows high and 100 feet long to store the singles.

But I do feel sorry for this guy because he feels this has been his life's work and I would assume that there wasn't enough business to keep the store going and no one seems to want his collection. He's gotta be wondering why he bothered.

And I wondered why I've only been able to sell about 90 of my LPs.

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And as an aside: I can't find the post and I'm not even sure if I posted it to Blu-ray.com or some other Forum, but recently I stated that J&R in NYC got rid of their vinyl. But as it turned out, that was only for a week, while they reorganized the store. Vinyl is back and it looks to me like they have about 6000 albums. Sorry if I caused anyone panic, consternation or confusion.

[CasualKiller]

The Ebay auction was 2 years ago. It was a disaster, there was a buyer for the 3 million asking price, made big news. After a couple of weeks the guy never paid, claimed someone "hacked" his account, it left the owner in the vid with a $43,000 dollar listing fee owing.