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08-26-2008, 12:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Mid Hudson Valley, NY | | | Anyone spare $3,000,000
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This is very sad. World's largest vinyl collection worth 50 mill and the guy can't even get $three for it! http://www.vimeo.com/1546186
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08-26-2008, 12:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | | Wasnt that listed on ebay last year?
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08-26-2008, 12:21 PM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | yep |
08-26-2008, 12:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Northern Ontario | | | Oh well...my vinyl days are over, same with cassettes.
I will buy the CD, if I like the artist/album. But I find these days most of my listening is done through YouTube.
Shame though...seems like bad timing on the collection owners part, 10 years ago he might have gotten the full 50mill, but he sat on them too long, and they will soon be ready for an antique store. |
08-26-2008, 12:28 PM
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Originally Posted by joeinsprings  yep | +1
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08-26-2008, 02:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NY, NY | | | He should start grabbing them and putting them on ebay with a .99 NR bid. He could do that every day and still have more music than a conservatory.
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08-26-2008, 02:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Netherlands | | Brangelina should buy it and make it into a museum 
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08-26-2008, 03:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: México City | | | That's amazing, but I don't see anyone spending that much money... |
08-26-2008, 05:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Indianapolis | | | Something is only worth as much as someone would pay for it. Its basically worth nothing. I heard the guys health is declining too. To bad he passed up an offer of like 5 times what he wants now a few years ago. Even with the slight bump that vinyl is getting back, it will never be what it once was, and no one is gonna pay that. |
08-26-2008, 05:19 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College Station, Texas | | | good luck getting a million |
08-26-2008, 11:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Mid Hudson Valley, NY | | | When you consider how much music is in that collection that is no longer available it's a shame that there isn't some way to keep it all together.
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08-26-2008, 11:49 PM
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Owner: BassStringsOnline.com | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: LA California | | | cassettes in no way should be related with vinyl...
listning to music on vinyl is a whole other world.. |
08-27-2008, 12:36 AM
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Originally Posted by SLaPiNFuNK cassettes in no way should be related with vinyl...
listning to music on vinyl is a whole other world.. | A much much richer world...
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Originally Posted by THand Really, what I keep thinking is:
put "getting drunk with GE" on bucket list:D | Taking parts donations for another Drunk Rock bass. FS/FT Montreux Little Buffer Ben Lindsey Jazz |
08-27-2008, 08:48 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Mesa/Boogie - Shop Manager/Tech, SF Guitarworks | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | Bah. I'll just download it all for free. |
08-27-2008, 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Benjamin Strange Bah. I'll just download it all for free. | Only a certain % is available to the public. |
08-27-2008, 09:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Austin, Texas | | | If'n I had 3 mil to spare. I would totally buy this.
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08-27-2008, 10:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Quebec | | | Of the 83% of the records from 1947 to 1966 that he has that is not available to the public, 98% of it probably sucks and 1% of it might be relevant to some rabid subculture collector somewhere. If it hasn't passed the test of time, there's a good chance it wasn't groundbreaking: people still listen to Edit Piaf or Duke Ellington. Their thousands of imitators ? Not so much.
I have an uncle who has around 50,000 vinyls (signles + LP). Pretty much all of it is country and a huge portion of it is self-produced, French Canadian country. Artists that nobody has ever heard of. Artists that ripped off Enlgish speaking artists (there was a huge industry for this in the 60's). Artists that sold 35 vinyls in their entire careers.
His collection is a very tiny fraction of what this guys has and it is still bloated with unimaginative crap. Believe me, some of these records are not worth the price of the vinyl they are printed on because nobody is willing to pay for it. It might be extremly rare, but my molars are the only exact specimen available on Earth from Billyray and you don't see me selling them on eBay.
He might be better off sorting the valuable records, selling them one by one and then donating the rest to the Library of Congress or some other institution because right now, he doesn't stand a chance: nobody wants to pay for 2 millions records when all they want are the 100k valuable ones. |
08-27-2008, 10:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Mid Hudson Valley, NY | | | I think that misses the point. Yes there will be a lot of stuff that doesn't hold much aesthetic value, but as history it is all important because it speaks to a much larger and richer cultural picture.
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08-27-2008, 10:14 AM
|  | You don't want to do that. Trust me. Forum Administrator | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: atlanta ga | | | just because someone considers something unimaginative or unaesthetic doesn't mean it shouldn't be preserved.
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08-27-2008, 10:24 AM
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Originally Posted by john turner just because someone considers something unimaginative or unaesthetic doesn't mean it shouldn't be preserved. | But it also doesn't mean it should be preserved. Sometimes it's important to allow certain works to be forgotten. Packrating and be a dangerous habit - as evidenced by this guy's record collection. He's stuck with thousands of records, and for what? | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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