This is about a vast archive of records in the US. It got me wondering how many of these huge collections there are in the world. I’m sure there was a piece years ago about a vast private collection in a warehouse somewhere (South America somewhere perhaps?), and aren’t there institutions such as the BBC who once claimed to have every record issued? I know Elton has or had a huge collection, and I’m sure there must be other megarich people with similar stashes.
Think you have a large collection…?!
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Wow, Staatsburg, NY. Used to live just a few minutes away. Had no idea. It’s a nice part of the world
He deserves a place in heaven just for releasing O Superman.
The recording industry should be funding this, but I doubt that they will.
I’m fascinated by collections like this.
How something goes from buying a few singles to a collection like this, which needs dedicated space, support via philanthropy, etc. with the concern being what happens to it when the person currently tasked with managing it dies.
There’s a comment BTL in that article, which mentions a reasonable sized collection of music, memorabilia and merchandise and wonders what will become of it when he’s no longer around.
I’m not assuming that there are people here with a collection like the one in the main article – or maybe there are! – but what to do with it all.
One expensive item, like a guitar, will sell but what’s anyone to do with hundreds of albums, books, movies and so on. When does a collection get so big that it becomes too expensive and/or too big for anyone else to buy as one lot?
Does it even matter? Is the pleasure eventually in the collecting and not the collection?
Never mind about the sheer size of a collection, how much time and effort was expended in accumulating it or how expensive it’s become to maintain. Will anyone else be interested in keeping it as one lot, once it’s become available?
The obviously built those NYC lofts well to support that weight.
I have a wall of Kallax units at one end of my garage and I think the other end is about an inch higher.
Marty Willson-Piper has a similar hobby. He’s just moved the whole thing from Cornwall to Portugal and I believe has more copies of The Court of The Crimson King than anyone else in the world.
https://www.indeepmusicarchive.net/
“No one else is saving it”?
I was rather under the impression that “everyone else is saving it”.
I’d be more impressed with an ability to hone a private collection down to a specific core.