The World's Largest Record Collection

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Nice! but I imagine 50% + is junk. He should just sell the rarities one by one, that Rolling Stones record would sell easy and he'd have fun watching people fight over some of the rare ones instead of trying to sell it wholesale.



Dean..

He ain't helping his efforts by putting his fingerprints all over the discs.

The clip is from 2008, I was told he finally sold his collection for $2MM.

He had some extremely rare recordings as part of his collection, not just the one he showed in the clip.

That's a collector for you, have to have one of each even if it isn't great. 60 Minutes did that segment on him. It is great fun.

and I thought Michael Och's Archive was worth talking about.......(reportedly 100,000 - although I doubt if there is an extensive John Denver section in the Ochs archive).

but it often amuses me how many of these 'serious collectors' can listen back on a t/table that has the pitch stability of a she-wolf on heat.

even so, I'd love to know whether he has those Tubby Hayes titles I'm looking for.......

actually, it'd be interesting to see who could come up with the longest list of records he didn't have.

100,000 records? Wow.

Edgar Fruitier, a French Canadian actor who also hosts a Classical Music show on CBC radio, has a collection of 50,000+ LPs and CDs (he had 50,000 back in 2002 and never stopeed adding to it.) His is almost 100% classical.

Of course, 40 hours/week times 52 weeks only amounts to 2,080 hours...

Claude