If you’ve read about the growing vinyl revival (if you read Tone Deaf regularly, it’d be kind of hard to escape it) and you’re interested in compiling your own record collection, there’s a Craiglist seller in Dunkirk, New York who could probably get you started.
As FACT reports, a Dunkirk man is selling the entirety of his late father’s vinyl collection in one job lot. The price he’s asking for is a mere $350,000, or roughly about the cost of a one-bedroom apartment in Melbourne, provided it’s close to public transport.
While that may sound like a hefty sum, it actually works out to about a $1.40 a record. That’s because the seller’s father’s record collection comprised a total of 250,000 records, of which the seller estimates 160,000 are 45s with the rest being 12″s and LPs.
If you’re worried about forking out a few years’ salary on what could in all likelihood be a bunchy of scratched up LPs in worn-out sleeves and marred by water damage, you have no cause for concern. The seller has assured potential buyers all records are in “good to vg to mint” condition.
The one issue you will have is taking inventory of your monstrous new vinyl collection, because even the seller doesn’t have a freaking clue what he’s actually selling. “I can’t really say what’s in here but everything you can probably think of. Colored vinyl, etc,” he writes.
He just really wants to get rid of the records, which stands to reason, as you can imagine keeping 250,000 records in storage would be kind of a drain on one’s funds. If you’ve got a spare $350,000 lying around, you can get more info over on Craiglist.
Just FYI, the seller has said he won’t be responsible for any shipping, so it’s up to you to organise the convoy or Hannibal-style elephant army that will be marching these things into your loving arms. We sense a reality show in the making here.
While 250,000 records is pretty impressive, we’re not convinced it stacks up to some of the other mammoth collections we’ve written about, like the collection officially considered the world’s largest, one which needed a special complex built just to house it, or these from a series of famous films.
