Worlds Greatest Music Collection Could Be Yours

Wow.

Do you reckon he's backed it up on an external and that's why he's selling? Balls to "ill health".

http://www.thegreatestmusiccollection.com/customers/107122712115807/images/3-1.jpg

His database isn't even complete yet: http://www.thegreatestmusiccollection.com/whoownsthecollection.html

Not Joel Whitburn then.

(Enter US $3,000,000.00 or more)
Get $10 back on this item

http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2003/04/28/story6.html?page=1

He got any reggae?

that is a fascinating article.

kind of impossible for someone to buy the whole thing and MOVE it. you know? it would cost millions to move and house somewhere else. dude should just let the library of congress have what they want and then sell the rest in pieces.

^^^ This. Also, why sell it on eBay, with no reserve? Surely this collection could command more in its niche market. The eBay description, in fact, says that it's market value is estimated at 50m, so why take a (relatively) nearly-complete haircut on eBay?

To be clear, I'm in no way doubting the legitimacy of the sale or seller. I just don't understand the venue chosen to sell the stuff.

if you read through that Pittsburgh article he seems tired and frustrated, maybe he just said "fuck it".

Best bit:

He 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, Mr. Mawhinney remembers buying a casket full of them from Mr. Chedwick at 11:30 p.m. The deal was done in a graveyard, appropriately enough.

Damn goths everywhere

My favorite part of this story is that Aunt Rachel from Family Matters is a close friend and associate and is somehow involved in the sale.

Digital preservation would be fine were it not for the fact that CDs have a life-span of just 15 to 20 years. In a few short years, the information on your CDs will just begin to disappear. Forever.

People really have to stop saying things like this.

the good news is you don't have to pay all at once - every month a few titles will ship to your house - your credit card will just be charged for the ones you keep - apparently the collector keeps them in his Columbia House

Along the way, he has collected plenty of memories and bad feelings. Looking into a display case, Mr. Mawhinney eyes an autographed photo of Tom Hanks he received after helping the actor in development of the film "That Thing You Do" about an Erie do-wop band of the early 1960s.

he hates tom hanks is why

this guy is a bro but at the same time this is like my nightmare scenario re: the record collecting rabbithole.

My favorite part of this story is that Aunt Rachel from Family Matters is a close friend and associate and is somehow involved in the sale.

-- jaymc, Monday, 18 February 2008 18:52 (Yesterday)

what what??

and we have her e-mail address now!

i feel like anyone buying this would be a waste of time and money. donate or sell it to the smithsonian or the library of congress or something, so everyone can benefit from it.

My question:

Dear jpaulhenderson5a4e,

With a record collection of this magnitude, I seriously doubt Mr. Mawhinney has gotten laid more than a few times. I'm willing to suck his cock an estimated 3 million times in exchange for the collection. Do you think he would be interested? Thanks so much!

- xxxxxx

His answer:

Dear xxxxxx,

He's been laid enough to have a bunch of children and grandchildren. Are you a man or a woman? If you're a woman, you can suck my cock 3 million times and I'll see what I can work out on the records.

- jpaulhenderson5a4e

Anyone else look closely at those pics to try to read some artists names?
The first one I saw was "Perry Como" ... probably a few hundred Como LPs at least, and even more for Nat King Cole and Bing Crosby. Man, it would be pretty painful to comb through all the easy listening sludge this guy has.

At least he has a giant Coltrane section in the same pic.

But WHY is he showing off that Nat King Cole record I've found in dollar bins everywhere??

Imagine paying $3m for all that stuff and it was all easy listening, nu-metal and jam bands.

Nothing but Mantovani.

gonna need to rent a uhaul

this guys should just hire someone to sell all this stuff off in smaller batches if he cant be bothered wtf

I thought thread was going to be about this

Sorry, this link is simpler.

you could spend hundreds, even millions of dollars collecting these songs individually. but with time/life's greatest music collection, all the greatest hits of the 20th century can be yours in one convenient collection

"So many of today's popular tunes were actually written by the Great Masters, like these familiar themes..."

Someone message the seller and ask if it's all melodic music

Someone already did...

"Pardon me for being skeptical, but does the collection really have "everything," including things that are modern and far outside of the mainstream? Does it include post-rock and black metal and noise and shoegaze and oi! punk? he got owned

At first I thought Rachel was the grandmother but now I remember. Aunt Rachel was hot! I'm keeping her adress.

I'm not bidding unless he throws in a bust of Beethoven.

Q: I think I speak for thousands of artsy, and cute silly people who have had religious experiences with this(or I could be speaking for myself, who knows), but this just might make the value of the collection for all these people go from something to nothing (or vice versa): Do you have Tool - AEnima LP? And while on the topic, any other LP's by Tool? Any particular signed ones?

Q: Hi Mr. can I pay in 10.000 comfortable monthly installments? Thanks Feb-13-08
A: Get a life.

LOL at world's greatest music collector telling someone to get a life

LOL

LOL at two guys with almost identical names LOLling one after the other.

More eBay questions, plz. I don't have an eBay account.

Q: do you have the gorilla biscits 7" with b-side warzone labels that are pretty rare on yellow vinyl?
A: Now is the time for me to rise to my feet, wipe the spit from my face, wipe these tears from my eyes. I will be heard.

"This is a NO RESERVE auction. High bid wins."

22 hours to go, 0 bids. So if someone were to bid, like, $250 and they're the only one, they win? Sweet. (not for the seller, obviously)

Oh! Starting bid! Okay. Me r dum sometimes.

22 hrs to go.

Q: Can pigs swim?
A: To the best of my knowledge, the pig is the only mammal that can't swim. Now go home; your mother is worried.

piga can so swim - i just saw it on tv the other day wtf

can you guess the question i asked?

You asked about the raer Chaka Caan records?

this guy sucks my left nuttock, he is sitting on four million skated copies of vaughan meader first family and herb albert whipped cream and other delights.

pigs swimming http://youtube.com/watch?v=pNwYaUGRhs0

Q: I am simply interested in 'Here comes the Hot Stepper' by Ini Kamoze. Would you be able to separate this classic from the collection and sell it to me? Thank you. Feb-19-08
A: Sorry. NOTHING will be removed from the collection.

Someone else asked about the seeming lack of "Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs" from the databse,. ... (MarDigbot?>>>?)

17 hours 28 minutes left and no bids.
Considering that everyone with a computer potentially has access to whatever music they want, his timing might be off by about eight to 10 years.

I kinda feel sorry for him :-/

don't.

The auction is generating a significant amount of media interest, which may have been the actual intent. Selling your $50-million record collection may prove difficult through an eBay auction, but after the newspaper and online articles, a lot more people know its up for sale.
A lot cheaper than taking out ads.

i feel sorry for him. this is not a collection, it's an accumulation.

do you know what he has?

this is not an accumulation, it's a disorder.

http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/rt_schwarzenegger_070521_ms.jpg
SNAHTA TOOMAH !!!

he's already tried to sell it off at various points throughout the year. my employers flew out to check it out and felt it wasn't much and was way too expensive. i think the person who said there was four million copies of vaughan meder and herb alpert isn't too far off the mark...plus whoever mentioned shipping the dang thing is OTM. wtf are you really supposed to do with it once you've won it?!

ooooh tell us moar !!!

Q: is local pick up a possibility? I live in West Chester, PA.... how many trips do you think it would take, and what size Uhaul would be required to use.... how soon would I have to pick them up... I would need to make arrangements for a home for them.

i think the person who said there was four million copies of vaughan meder and herb alpert isn't too far off the mark...

He was on npr yesterday and they mentioned him buying "tractor-trailer loads of records being returned to the manufacturer" and that he wasn't choosy. His example of the records' values was having a hundred copies of ZZ Top's first single. Pretty cool, sure, but maybe not $3M worth of cool.

He did mention that his favorite song out of all of it was "Let me love you" by George Goodman & the Headliners. Apparently a hit only in Pittsburgh and Baltimore, according to him.

"He did mention that his favorite song out of all of it was "Let me love you" by George Goodman & the Headliners. Apparently a hit only in Pittsburgh and Baltimore, according to him.

-- city worker"

sounds like doo-wop, that shit was and is huge in pittsburgh.

2 hours, 27 minutes to go

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyer_brothers

disposophobia!

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/images/200802/20080220sm_record1_500.jpg

Is that "Relics" I see?

Ah, 30 minutes! I'm winning!

TRUE DOM TRUE

(lol just about to post that pic)

yeah has anyone mentioned there's 30 minutes left and 5 fake bidders? poor bastard.

That LP he's looking at is (I think) that very rare Rolling Stones 'promotional' LP of the sixties.

5 mins!

Looking at the spines in that pic, lots of examples of multiple copies of the same record.

yeah. On the left, it looks like Electric ladyland. on the right, Holly Johnson's "Bang" maybe.

But if you go around the corner it looks like this

do you mean this?

Congratulations to "jopsoup" who now has a $3M record collection to go with the Olympus xD card he bought for £5.95 in December.

According to his discogs.com profile (http://www.discogs.com/collection?user=jopsoup) he already has a copy of "Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)" by Scatman John so, I dunno, maybe he's gonna want to put one of the copies back on eBay?

That LP he's looking at is (I think) that very rare Rolling Stones 'promotional' LP of the sixties.

-- Mark G, Thursday, 21 February 2008 13:52 (1 hour ago) Link

that picture would be funnier if he had been using one of these

http://www.abledata.com/product_images/images/02A0590.jpg
http://z.about.com/d/jewelry/1/0/p/4/using_loupe1.jpg
http://www.the-private-eye.com/images/aboutTPE/student2-using-loupe.jpg

http://www.ilxor.com:8090/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=141&threadid=900

Yeah, almost certain it's this one:

http://991.com/newGallery/Rolling-Stones-The-Promotional-A-419206.jpg

See, this auction is saying "OMG! It's full of stuff as rare as THIS!!"

(that LP is on EIL for £1,500)

Isn't everyhing on EIL £1,500 minimum?

Popsike had one sold for £950, and that one had no sleeve.

The auction is generating a significant amount of media interest, which may have been the actual intent. Selling your $50-million record collection may prove difficult through an eBay auction, but after the newspaper and online articles, a lot more people know its up for sale.
A lot cheaper than taking out ads

Looks like Mojo thought the same (or reads ILM threads very closely : interview

LOL U LEARNED NOTHING FROM THE VU ACETATE BOONDOGGLE:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08054/859659-388.stm

http://vimeo.com/1546186