World's biggest record collection

I remember reading about him. If you're into stories of record collectors, there is a great book (also blog) called "dust n grooves" by a brooklyn based author that is an excellent read.


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No one would have enough time in a lifetime to listen to this collection. :weird:
 
If you assume 40 mins per LP of music and he has 6 million records, so that would be 240 million mins of music. Given that there are 525,600 mins per year, it would take 456.6 years of continuous listening to listen to that collection (for one person of course and not factoring of course time to change albums from one to the next) :D
 
IMHO, this is not a collection in any meaningful sense. He has bought truckloads of crap and is now standing on them! A collection implies some sort of curation, a sense of what is important and meaningful. Hundreds of copies of some schlocky 1980s rock album pressed in the hundreds of thousands does not make ones hoard a collection. I'd far prefer a collection of a thousand well selected and well preserved albums to 100X that of flotsam and jetsam which this guy seems to have amassed. Just my opinion but I could be very wrong!
 
Hey, I like Flotsam and Jetsam!

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Wntrmute2 said:
IMHO, this is not a collection in any meaningful sense.
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I agree. I've read alot about this person. He is not collecting, per se. He's archiving. Big difference. Sort of a "library of Congress" for records.
 
skolis said:
I agree. I've read alot about this person. He is not collecting, per se. He's archiving. Big difference. Sort of a "library of Congress" for records.
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He's not archiving yet either IMHO as that would mean he is concerned with sorting, documenting, maintaining and providing a resource. This is better described as hoarding. Once he gets to work unpacking, cleaning and organizing that "hoard" I'll be more generous.
 
Yes, and he is interested in specific pressings to create a historical archive of music from diff parts of the world.


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I read somewhere, that this collector of memories ( his words) wants to make them available to the public and he's taken on 17 interns to help him do it.
At a stage-lighting company also owned by freitas, they clean and dust, photograph the covers and painstakingly catalogue each one at the rate of about 500 records a day, he says.

They've catalogued 250,000 - a drop in the bucket.
 
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