The World's Largest Record Collection

[dana_b]

Anyone have a spare 3 million?

I would love to know what is on that 1880s record.

[Scuba]

1. Interesting, thank. n/t

[Stuart G]

2. Thanks For Posting, k and r..

We are very interesting people...this country.
There are many of us who collect stuff..he is one of em.

[Evasporque]

3. I wonder if he has this one...

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. Aaargh! My ears!!!11!!

I had no idea what that was, so I went to YouTube.

Gaack, I feel like I RickRolled myself!

[dana_b]

6. well, I guess you "requested" it,

and he warned you - in a way.

[Skittles]

13. LOL

Ken Snyder and his daughter seem like pretty cool folk

http://communistdanceparty.blogspot.com/2007/09/ken-by-request-only-complete-story.html

[progressoid]

14. I grew up about 10 miles away from this guy.

sreisly.

I don't know him except through the internets lore.

Sadly, I've probably run across this album in Goodwill stores without realizing its value. Apparently they fetch a nice price on eBay.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

15. Yes, and worthless without

[Brother Buzz]

7. That's not a collection, it's a hoard

Now, a collection I'd love to possess would be Doctor Demento's. If I couldn't nab that one, I'd settle for R. Crumb's eclectic 78rpm collection.

[SecularMotion]

9. or Joe Bussard's collection

http://vimeo.com/album/126383

[Brother Buzz]

10. Absolutely!

I totally loved Joe Bussard's Down In The Basement album. So, like, if I can't have his collection, I'd settle for an evening or two with him and burn a couple of CD's.

[usrname]

8. Apple should buy them

digitize them and put them up on iTunes for all of us. I think a number of the albums are pubic record, given how old they are. If not, pay the labels a flat fee to allow duping.

Put it as a special playlist in iTunes, "Paul's Record-Rama archives"

[dimbear]

11. Early records............

Because the early technology was so limited, the early records are necessarily mostly treble. They just couldn't reproduce any bass with their tiny reproducers. That's why so many early records are tenors of one sort or another. Other popular topics: people laughing like maniacs (fact) and ethnic humor.

[thelordofhell]

12. David Bowie should buy it

The man in this video, Paul Mawhinney, personally made RCA re-release Space Oddity in '72(the album flopped in '69), thus creating David Bowie's entire career.