that shit is absurd! i just want to see that for myself...

i love this q and a on the page:

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...more Feb-19-08
A: Sorry. NOTHING will be removed from the collection.

Is that bigger or smaller than itunes?

Woohoo... beat the Vegan on this story. WAHEY.

"Woohoo... beat the Vegan on this story. WAHEY."

Sounds like someone wants a cookie.

ha. just saw this on ateaseweb.com/mb.

Roughly five times the size of the entire iTunes catalog.

Touch them up and go, uh-oh
Ch-ch-chang-chang

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MS8UHOFk-KI

Unfortunately, 1/2 million of that collection are copies of Spin Doctors' Pocket Full of Kryptonite

No Daft Punk comment?

i want a complete listing, otherwise there is no way i'm buying this collection

my record collection is better

I bet all the vinyl is scratched.

Are there any Air Supply LPs in the collection?

This is so funny cause it is so NOT news. Most people in the record collecting market know of Paul Mawhinney. He has been trying to sell this collection for a while now. It is definitely not the greatest collection but it is for sure the biggest. I have seen lists of what is in this and while it is very expansive he is missing a lot of really rare records. As you can imagine there is a lot of shit in it as well as he did buy every piece of crap he could get his hands on. As you can see from the Ebay auction he has no bids. What he had been asking for in private circles was met with no takers so now he is trying this. Bigger when it comes to record collections does not mean better. Paul Major(from Endless Boogie) for example has a much smaller collection but it is worth far more than this guy's.

Oh and Jason, yeah you may have beat Vegan in posting this info but the difference is no one reads your blog

Damn anon 1:37. Zing!

http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Worlds-Greatest-Music-Collection_W0QQitemZ140206309501QQihZ004QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

>>Paul Major(from Endless Boogie)

what's he got???

">>Paul Major(from Endless Boogie)

what's he got???"

He is actually one of the leading rare record collectors in the world. His collection is phenomenal.

"He is actually one of the leading rare record collectors in the world. His collection is phenomenal."

Then why is his band terrible? Does he listen to his record collection? He can probably learn something.

what?! Endless Boogie is good.

rare and expensive does not = "good" to your average indie kid. Thomas Edison talking into a cone doesn't go well with Vampire Weekend.

From his website:

"If you started listening to the music in this collection on the day you were born, and listened every minute of every day, by the time you finished, you'd be 57 years old. That's a lot of music. And it's a lot of history."

I don't know how old this guy is, but unless he is really old and hasn't done too many other things with his waking hours, there really is no way that he could have even heard everything in his collection, let alone really get to know many of the records, right?

THE ANTHEM

Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from France and from London.
But I was there.

I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the Internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Tokyo and Berlin.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered eighties.

But I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge, but I was there.
I was there.
But I was there.

I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1974 at the first Suicide practices in a loft in New York City.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Daft Punk to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.

I used to work in the record store.
I had everything before anyone.
I was there in the Paradise Garage DJ booth with Larry Levan.
I was there in Jamaica during the great sound clashes.
I woke up naked on the beach in Ibiza in 1988.

But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.

I'm losing my edge.

I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody. Every great song by the Beach Boys. All the underground hits. All the Modern Lovers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import. I heard that you have a white label of every seminal Detroit techno hit - 1985, '86, '87. I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.

I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your computer out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.

I hear that you and your band have sold your guitars and bought turntables.
I hear that you and your band have sold your turntables and bought guitars.

I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.

But have you seen my records? This Heat, Pere Ubu, Outsiders, Nation of Ulysses, Mars, The Trojans, The Black Dice, Todd Terry, the Germs, Section 25, Althea and Donna, Sexual Harrassment, a-ha, Pere Ubu, Dorothy Ashby, PIL, the Fania All-Stars, the Bar-Kays, the Human League, the Normal, Lou Reed, Scott Walker, Monks, Niagra,

Joy Division, Lower 48, the Association, Sun Ra,
Scientists, Royal Trux, 10cc,

Eric B. and Rakim, Index, Basic Channel, Soulsonic Force ("just hit me"!), Juan Atkins, David Axelrod, Electric Prunes, Gil! Scott! Heron!, the Slits, Faust, Mantronix, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, the Swans, the Soft Cell, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.

You don't know what you really want.

Why buy it when you can just download it?

I bet there are at least two, maybe three tracks in that collection that can't be downloaded...

endless boogie rocks!

endless boogie and all of the stupid cokehead matador people who play in that band suck..which is why the only shows they play are opening for bands on matador.

LCD sound system is one of the worst comedy acts i've ever heard.

who ever sayd This is so funny cause it is so NOT news. Most people in the record collecting market know of Paul Mawhinney. He has been trying to sell this collection for a while now. It is definitely not the greatest collection but it is for sure the biggest. I have seen lists of what is in this and while it is very expansive he is missing a lot of really rare records. As you can imagine there is a lot of shit in it as well as he did buy every piece of crap he could get his hands on. As you can see from the Ebay auction he has no bids. What he had been asking for in private circles was met with no takers so now he is trying this. Bigger when it comes to record collections does not mean better. Paul Major(from Endless Boogie) for example has a much smaller collection but it is worth far more than this guy's.

Oh and Jason, yeah you may have beat Vegan in posting this info but the difference is no one reads your blog

youre fool rong he got bids sold it 7 bids over shore kool person lot lolly bread bet its cerlib bid bought it

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