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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 04:10 PM
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Ebay auction: $3,000,000 for the "World's Greatest Music Collection"
Edited on Mon Feb-18-08 04:12 PM by texas1928
I wonder if it is or not.

http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Worlds-Greatest-Music-Collection_W0QQitemZ140206309501QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item140206309501
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 04:29 PM
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1. I'm guessing only if "great" is used to mean "large."
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brentspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 05:21 PM
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3. Exactly
"Great" to me could only mean mint copies of 1950's Blue Note, Prestige, Clef and Contemporary jazz recordings; mint early 1960's Bill Evans recordings on Riverside; mint original Beatles UK albums; mint early 60's Rolling Stones albums on Decca; mint Elvis Presley Sun singles; mint first press Velvet Underground albums...stuff like that.
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 05:24 PM
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4. I would not want to pay the shipping and handling fees.
That UPS guy is going to freak when he goes to pick up this delivery.
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 09:57 AM
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41. If that's the case, then I've got the greatest ...
oh nevermind.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 05:06 PM
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2. Holy crap! How many iPods would it take to store that collection?
:wow:
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 05:25 PM
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5. The giant one from Scary movie 4 could handle it.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 05:25 PM
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6. I'm glad that SOMEONE is dedicated to the complete archiving of that genius, Rick Astley.
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 05:26 PM
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7. HEY!
I have one of his albums on cassette.
And I ain't afraid to admit it.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 05:31 PM
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8. The sound you are now hearing is that of everyone around you setting their phasers on Shun.
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 05:49 PM
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11. Shun me I don't care.
I like my stuff and other people like other stuff.


I am not a music or movie snob.


:P
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 05:51 PM
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14. I'm not a snob, I'm just right.
;)
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 05:57 PM
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15. To quote Frank Burns....
" SNOT SNOT SNOT"
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 06:16 PM
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18. :)
:toast:
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 05:38 PM
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9. I like the link
to "get $10 back on this item..."
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 05:50 PM
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12. Yeah, I was think "OOOOO, you get 10 bucks back."
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 05:44 PM
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10. I neither like nor trust eBay...
...and yeah, I know I'm in the minority, but eBay can bite me in the same way that Yahoo can bite me.

But Yahoo can bite me MORE, because I really, really, really dislike Yahoo.

Really.

:evilgrin:
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 05:50 PM
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13. Only bought one thing of e-bay and I still wear it.
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 06:03 PM
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16. By my calculations it would take over 285 years to listen to the whole collection.
That's without taking breaks for eating, sleeping, etc..
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 06:04 PM
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17. Just hold play and fast forward down.
Cut it in half.
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 06:16 PM
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19. But, 142.5 years of "chimpmunks" songs would seem like well over 285.
I would blow my head off long before getting through the first thousand.
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 06:26 PM
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20. Just make a compilation tape of your favorites.
Shouldn't take that long.
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 06:31 PM
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21. Guy is located in Pittsburgh
He has owned a record store for 40+ years.

and from what I heard today on NPR it is truly drool worthy.

Millions of 45's. Of course you youngsters wouldn't remember those...

Now get off my lawn and pull up your damn baggy hip-hop pants...

:hi:

RL
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 06:35 PM
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22. Fog off you old fart....
:P


I know what 45's are. I actually have some.

Oh and I would love to have that collection.
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-20-08 12:21 AM
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35. I have lots of 45s, Grandpa.
:P
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 02:16 AM
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37. I wouldn't want it. The good music to crap music ratio is too far swayed toward crap.
I'd love to scoop up the gems of that collection though.
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dropkickpa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 10:00 AM
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42. Record Rama (the store)
Is a wonderland. The guy is REALLY nice, too. His hope is that a museum or some such thing will buy the collection so that it can be preserved. The estimated worth of it is actually something like $70 million, so 3 is a steal.

I hope he gets his wish and gets to retire gracefully. And someplace warm. It's DAMN cold here today.
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qwertyMike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 06:38 PM
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23. Hey
I got the world's greatest music collection:

Every Dylan Album in vinyl: about half of them in Mono
Every Neil Young Album

and a 45 of the Beatles singing "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" in German "Komm Gibt me deine Hand"

and a Scott Joplin Ragtime tune recorded off a Piano Poll he made.

and Travis Tritt

Mick
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 06:41 PM
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25. But he has EVERYTHING
EVERYTHING!!!
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-20-08 12:18 AM
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34. My most obscure 45 is a Capitol release of the "Deacon Andy Griffith"...
...doing two stand up routines circa 1953.

And, yes, it is funny.
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enigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 02:39 AM
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38. "What It Was, Was Football"?
A friend of mine has that and ripped me an mp3 of it; "Love Letter To Juanita Beasley" is pretty funny, too..
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 12:37 PM
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43. Yeah, the flipside of "Football" has his take on Romeo & Juliet.
"Hark, what light through yonder winder shines?"
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 06:39 PM
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24. No need to buy the collection.
Just download every song for free using LimeWire or somesuch. Shouldn't take more that 300 years or so. But think of the savings.
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 06:41 PM
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26. I don't know if you can find everything in that collection.
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 06:57 PM
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27. They are interviewing him right now
on NPR's All Things Considered. Check your local listings.
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 07:07 PM
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28. I am at work.
Sorry.
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 07:17 PM
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29. Go to their website when you get home.
Edited on Tue Feb-19-08 07:18 PM by hippywife
And you can hear the whole interview there.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19174564
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BulletproofLandshark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 07:25 PM
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30. I thought having 16,000 MP3's was impressive.
I can only look on in awe at that collection.
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 07:49 PM
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32. Shit, I don't even come close to you.
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Maestro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 01:00 PM
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50. I have 15,470 MP3
mostly burned from my personal collection, but yes, that guy is a monster! I wish him luck. There must be a few gems in there. How can a Stones album be worth 10K? Must be the only version in existence.
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 07:29 PM
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31. I've been to this guy's store
It was unreal.
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-19-08 07:50 PM
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33. It would be cool to browse through it.
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-20-08 11:25 PM
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36. Minimum bid now up to $3,000,100 -- only 9 hrs left. nt
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 01:17 PM
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44. UH OH
Better get on it.
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PittPoliSci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 02:56 AM
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39. coming from pittsburgh?
i'm really skeptical about some of my fellow 'burghers taste in music. i can only listen to the clarks and donnie iris so much...
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 01:17 PM
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45. Well
As long as he has Rick Astley he is cool.
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Contrary1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 04:13 AM
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40. I doubt it.
My brother probably has the biggest collection. Mainly records, but now he is getting into CD's too. He has so many, the room they are stored in is sinking from the weight.

Hundreds of thousands, many unopened. Some worth a lot of money. From the 30's on. I keep telling him they aren't worth anything unless he sells them, but; he just keeps collecting.

If he dies before his wife, someone is going to get quite a deal. She says she will sell them all to the first serious offer.
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texas1928 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 01:18 PM
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46. Man, he better hope he does not go before his wife.
And what is a serious offer to her?
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Metta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 02:55 PM
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47. This guy has been trying to sell it for years as long as he came with the deal.
He has the reputation, locally, of being a hard nose shmuck who only sees dollar signs. His prices were outrageous and his staff was purposefully rude, reflecting how he is.

All the best to him. All of his money won't buy him any softer karma. That'll be up to him and he'll have to do a lot of front loading before he kicks off.
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Westegg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 05:19 PM
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48. Turned down $28 mil? Now accepting $3 mil?
...I get that circumstances have changed for the man. That the past is not the present, etc. Still, how the heck do you kiss off $25 million? He might have put his grandchildren through college for that! Nobody's lost that much money in Pittsburgh since Henry Frick got snippy with Andy Carnegie. Or since whoever bought the Pirates bought the Pirates.
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vincentpghpa Donating Member (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-24-08 10:16 AM
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49. he didn't turn down anything. 
He didn't turn down 28 million. CDNow (a bmg company) offered
that amount but a week later declared bankruptcy. The library
of congress was supposed to buy it and hire him too for
100,000 a year and the library backed out noting increasingly
scarce federal funding as an excuse.
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