The man with ONE MILLION LPs and 1.5 MILLION singles
Posted by: Kevin-W on 16 February 2011
http://vimeo.com/1546186This short - and very poignant - film (above) by Sean Dunne is about Paul Mawhinney, who apparently has (or had?) the world's biggest record collection - a million albums and 1,500,000 singles.
Absolutely gripping stuff. Beautifully paced mini-doc. And very sad too. Apparently Paul's "archive" is still in limbo.
Anyone who hasn't seen this before - what do you think?
Posted on: 16 February 2011 by Timbo
Sad that it cannot be saved for posterity as yet, although internet articles suggest that the collection has been picked clean of any valuable stuff. My opinion is that if it is not available anywhere else then it should be preserved. If I won enough money in the lottery I would buy it, house it and enjoy it. But what happens after that......
Tim
Posted on: 17 February 2011 by Derry
Listening 24/7 a million LPs would take about 76 years...
Posted on: 17 February 2011 by BigH47
Considering the vast sums that people pay for art, you'd think a mere $3 M someone would have bought it.
Library of congress springs to mind, or how about the Music Hall of Fame? Y
You would have thought someone would care.
Posted on: 17 February 2011 by MilesSmiles
I think I started a thread on this here a few months back, but without search who knows where it is. ;-)
Posted on: 17 February 2011 by MilesSmiles
BTW, he sold his collection - for $1.5MM if my memory serves me right.
Posted on: 17 February 2011 by ewemon
I would have thought it would have been worth more than that Oliver but it is a huge collection.
Posted on: 17 February 2011 by MilesSmiles
He went down all the way to $3MM and finally took the lower offer. Insiders told me he had a lot of junk and a few diamonds in between.
