weinerdog Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Fascinating article. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/magazine/the-brazilian-bus-magnate-whos-buying-up-all-the-worlds-vinyl-records.html jtcohenour and shamrocks 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shamrocks Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 wonderful read, thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maneatingcow Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 One of many benefits of rich guy life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrewest Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 How many test presses tho? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3arl Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Do you think he owns a copy of Deja? Cus that's the rarest of them all. docdasuess 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrangerwithcandy Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 How funny would it be if he owned a Crosley? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimescore Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 That's who keeps sniping me on eBay... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiatorhums Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Nice read. I couldn't imagine having a collection so big that interns are needed to catalogue it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesewoodenideas Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 It's a bit sad to be honest. 30% of his collection are doubles and I bet he has hardly listened to a fraction of it all. The idea of saving music is a good one but surely he should start digitizing these and/or make them available for future generations rather than risk them all getting lost in a fire etc. Also I'd love to be this crazy rich. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team Avatar Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 yeah thats crazy but I don't know what the fuck I'd do if I had a huge room full of millions(?) of unorganized records. it'd be like when you have a pile of pokemon or magic cards and you try to put them in binders but about an hour later you get hungry and never come back distinctlydustin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batman Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 this sounds like the plot of a wes anderson film distinctlydustin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCandless Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 I think it's just a rich hoarder. I can understand getting thousands of records you like/might like but this is just hoarding on a rich persons scale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Family Friendly Rap God Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 That picture makes me cringe. openupyourskull and TheGhostOfRandySavage 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stampface Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Who wants to go to Brazil and liberate these poor records? You never know what could be in it with no orginization. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarzioo_ Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 I can't see on my tiny phone screen but is he standing on them?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Family Friendly Rap God Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 I can't see on my tiny phone screen but is he standing on them?? YES!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCandless Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 YES!!! Of course he's standing on them, god forbid they actually get used for what they were made for. I think he's irritating me. Like the guy in the office who would take a massive handful of biscuits and just leave them on his desk to go soggy. TheGhostOfRandySavage 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3arl Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 It's a bit sad to be honest. 30% of his collection are doubles and I bet he has hardly listened to a fraction of it all. The idea of saving music is a good one but surely he should start digitizing these and/or make them available for future generations rather than risk them all getting lost in a fire etc. Also I'd love to be this crazy rich. Of course he's standing on them, god forbid they actually get used for what they were made for. I think he's irritating me. Like the guy in the office who would take a massive handful of biscuits and just leave them on his desk to go soggy. I think it's just a rich hoarder. I can understand getting thousands of records you like/might like but this is just hoarding on a rich persons scale. Did you guys read the article? The plan is to create a large public music library with lots of listening stations so that everyone can enjoy this music that would otherwise be thrown away and lost forever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarzioo_ Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 He is scrooge mcduck and he probably swims around in them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarzioo_ Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Did you guys read the article? The plan is to create a large public music library with lots of listening stations so that everyone can enjoy this music that would otherwise be thrown away and lost forever. Now I feel bad for not reading the article . If that's the case then it's pretty cool of him. But still, seeing him stand on them hurts my heart or something. Idk.Edit: I love your username. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCandless Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Ahh I feel silly now. I read it but read it whilst working. I thought it said someone else did that and he was reluctant to do it but starting to with some duplicates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SBarry Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 How funny would it be if he owned a Crosley? I was bored so I photoshoped this, enjoy. I made his shirt read "I (Peanuts Crosley) Zay Zay" grizzlyfoz and McCandless 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsersen Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Did you guys read the article? The plan is to create a large public music library with lots of listening stations so that everyone can enjoy this music that would otherwise be thrown away and lost forever. Which you and I both know is never actually going to happen. I think on some level, he knows that himself...but waxing poetic about "saving music" and public service projects is a lot better than accepting the fact that you're a hoarder suffering from some sort of mental illness. His interns catalog 500 records a day - one of his buyers estimates that it would take 20 years to go through the current collection. And that's assuming that he stops buying more records...every purchase just adds to the timeline. Take the lot he bought at the beginning of the article - 3 million records in late 2013. At 500 a day, that's an additional 6000 days (or ~17 years) of work added just from one purchase. God only knows how many he had before that, and how many more he's bought since. The math just doesn't add up. The article does a really good job of trying to paint him as a passionate collector who's trying to do right by the music. The irony is that in his attempt at saving these records from being lost to history, he's ensuring that the majority of them will suffer that exact fate. He's 62, and when he dies, no one in their right mind is going to try to take on a collection of this size. Most of these albums are going to continue to sit in warehouses, forgotten, until they end up in some Brazilian landfill, never seeing a turntable again. It's just sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
distinctlydustin Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Thanks for the read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silversurfer91 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 I think the story of Paul Mawhinney is more interesting than the rich Brazil guy's: But also, what is even more intriguing is that Pittsburgh is also the home of Jerry Weber, who is another huge record packrat: Must be something in the water there.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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