História de verdadeiro amor

Uma coleção de mais de 2.5 milhões de discos assim como o primeiro vinil, esta é a colecção de Paul que têm um valor estimado em 50 milhões de dólares.

Entretanto encontrei esta noticia, uma pena ter que fechar por estes motivos, mais do que uma loja, um museu.

"A Pine record collector who hoped to sell his vintage vinyl for at least $1 a record has instead, bitterly, closed up shop.

Paul Mawhinney locked up his Record-Rama Sound Archives for good on Thursday, saying he's been squeezed out of business by the recording industry and big-box retailers who can sell compact discs for about two dollars less than his wholesale cost.

Mawhinney stopped buying CDs in 2002 and sold off his 300,000-disc collection in recent weeks. But efforts to sell more than a half-million albums, a million more 45 rpm singles, and thousands of tapes foundered. One buyer went bankrupt while another on eBay turned out to be bogus.

The 68-year-old started collecting records in 1951 when he bought a Frankie Laine single called "Jezebel."

(in Pittsburg Tribune Review)