He's gonna hoard them in warehouses until something happens to them (fire or whatever), or until something happens to him, at which point they will probably get destroyed or something cause there's no way for the right people to get to them anymore as opposed to when they are in record stores or discogs/ebay etc. At record stores and discogs/ebay, the good ones are pointed out and available, not lost in a stack of millions of crappy ones.
By "good ones" I mean the ones that you like/want and by "crappy ones" I mean the ones that you don't like/want. Not trying to diss millions of records.
Dude is out of his mind. The idea of having a library with listening stations is cool, but beyond that, what is the point of trying to get every record ever made?
He's gonna hoard them in warehouses until something happens to them (fire or whatever), or until something happens to him, at which point they will probably get destroyed or something cause there's no way for the right people to get to them anymore as opposed to when they are in record stores or discogs/ebay etc. At record stores and discogs/ebay, the good ones are pointed out and available, not lost in a stack of millions of crappy ones.
I would imagine every record dealer in São Paulo knows this guy and if something were to happen to him **cough cough** they would be chomping at the bit to get to his records.
Seriously though, it just sounds like he needs a lady friend to get his mind off records.
I think the guy has his heart in the right place...but I'm not sure if it's the best approach. Everyone seems to have mentioned the problems I see with it...The idea of consolidating a huge cache of history in one location (potential for total loss accidents) is what scares me the most.
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I would imagine every record dealer in São Paulo knows this guy and if something were to happen to him **cough cough** they would be chomping at the bit to get to his records.
This just made me day dream of an imaginary record collectr0n who-done-it murder mystery film...that would be awesome. I wonder what it would be called...
"Stackhouse does not want one of each Wallach card. He wants every single one of each card, and he is appealing to the general public to help him corner the Wallach Market by sending him all of their Tim Wallach cards. You can learn more about it at the site Stackhouse has set up at timwallach.blogspot.com, and if you have any spare Wallach cards of your own -- which is to say, if you have any Wallach cards of your own -- you might as well send them to him. He is asking politely, after all. For now. He was nice enough to talk to me about his quest."
He's gonna hoard them in warehouses until something happens to them (fire or whatever), or until something happens to him, at which point they will probably get destroyed or something cause there's no way for the right people to get to them anymore as opposed to when they are in record stores or discogs/ebay etc. At record stores and discogs/ebay, the good ones are pointed out and available, not lost in a stack of millions of crappy ones.
I would imagine every record dealer in São Paulo knows this guy and if something were to happen to him **cough cough** they would be chomping at the bit to get to his records.
Seriously though, it just sounds like he needs a lady friend to get his mind off records.
Yeah but will those record dealers in san pablo know which polka records to save? This dude's got me irked.
He's gonna hoard them in warehouses until something happens to them (fire or whatever), or until something happens to him, at which point they will probably get destroyed or something cause there's no way for the right people to get to them anymore as opposed to when they are in record stores or discogs/ebay etc. At record stores and discogs/ebay, the good ones are pointed out and available, not lost in a stack of millions of crappy ones.
I would imagine every record dealer in São Paulo knows this guy and if something were to happen to him **cough cough** they would be chomping at the bit to get to his records.
Seriously though, it just sounds like he needs a lady friend to get his mind off records.
Read this when I got home yesterday.
Was glad to hear Mawhinney and Murray got rid of their records.
If you read all the way through you will see that he does have some good collected record and does know his out of control.
Let's be clear, Joe Bussard has a collection, this guy has an accumulation.
A bunch of interns entering random records into a database is not archiving. Wiping them with a cloth is not protecting.
My local shop (Platter World in Garfield NJ) is going out of business because the owner died. His daughter is trying to get rid of his personal collection and inventory of half a million that took him 75 years to accumulate. She keeps the shop open on weekends and everything is a flat price ($3 LPs, $1 45s) but expects to have to recycle whatever is left at the end of the summer. I let her know about this Brazilian guy and she's checking it out.
In the meantime, it's a great place to dig and she's really trying to move as much as she can, so go if you can. Plenty of 12"s, jazz, rock, pop, soul, across the board.
Man, like in order to preserve these 'irreplaceable artifacts' that Zero is SO attached lets bring them to a place where the humidity is bound to hover around 90% for at least half the year. And for good measure lets wrap them in plastic tarps and stick them inna dank warehouse with a leaky roof. And then, well I think nothing says love like standing on them. GTFOOHWTBS.
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Definitely not "saving" or "archiving" all those records though... Amassing them. Sure. Crazy $$ to be spending on it too!
That said, part of me likes this a lot.
He's gonna hoard them in warehouses until something happens to them (fire or whatever), or until something happens to him, at which point they will probably get destroyed or something cause there's no way for the right people to get to them anymore as opposed to when they are in record stores or discogs/ebay etc. At record stores and discogs/ebay, the good ones are pointed out and available, not lost in a stack of millions of crappy ones.
I would imagine every record dealer in São Paulo knows this guy and if something were to happen to him **cough cough** they would be chomping at the bit to get to his records.
Seriously though, it just sounds like he needs a lady friend to get his mind off records.
This just made me day dream of an imaginary record collectr0n who-done-it murder mystery film...that would be awesome. I wonder what it would be called...
"Stackhouse does not want one of each Wallach card. He wants every single one of each card, and he is appealing to the general public to help him corner the Wallach Market by sending him all of their Tim Wallach cards. You can learn more about it at the site Stackhouse has set up at timwallach.blogspot.com, and if you have any spare Wallach cards of your own -- which is to say, if you have any Wallach cards of your own -- you might as well send them to him. He is asking politely, after all. For now. He was nice enough to talk to me about his quest."
Exactly who I thought of when I read the article.
Yeah but will those record dealers in san pablo know which polka records to save? This dude's got me irked.
Read this when I got home yesterday.
Was glad to hear Mawhinney and Murray got rid of their records.
If you read all the way through you will see that he does have some good collected record and does know his out of control.
Let's be clear, Joe Bussard has a collection, this guy has an accumulation.
A bunch of interns entering random records into a database is not archiving. Wiping them with a cloth is not protecting.
Who here has sold to this guy?
Should I quit taking records to Goodwill and start selling them to this guy in lots?
In the meantime, it's a great place to dig and she's really trying to move as much as she can, so go if you can. Plenty of 12"s, jazz, rock, pop, soul, across the board.