Imagine having amassed over 40 years some 3 million records, I believe most if not all the Vinyl Kind.
You get older and have a hard time caring for it and the last thing you want to happen is for it to be disseminated so you put it up for sale with one request, whoever buys it as to keep it whole.
Read more about The World’s Greatest Music Collection located in Pittsburgh it seems.
Amazing isn’t it.
That’s what I call passion.
Regis Behe of the Pittsburgh Tribune Review in Pine record collector selling ‘history of music’ shares more details about some of the treasure trove contents and its owner, Paul Mawhinney.
Amongst the memories he shared on Recordrama (in 2004), I have to quote this one: "Paul remembers buying 500 copies of a rare album made by Porky Chedwick, the famed local DJ of the 1950s. With the record backed by a funeral home, he remembers buying a casket full of them from Mr. Chedwick at 11:30 p.m. The deal was done in a graveyard, appropriately enough."
To give credit where it is due, found out about it thanks to Joseph McCombs (via the PhoList)
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