Granted this is somewhat belated, I suppose it is still relevant. This documentary about the indie record stores is quite interesting, hence my reason for showing it.
As it has been apparent for the last couple of years, record stores, especially those that are not chains, have been vanishing left and right. This documentary (available here ) highlights a few of the affected stores nation-wide, and includes commentary by several well known musicians including Thurston Moore and Ian Mackaye.
I feel as though the film is not only entertaining, but offers insight into lesser known pieces of information about the music retail industry. Unfortunately the time has expired, but during the week of Record Store Day, the documentary was available for free streaming on pitchfork.com
Check out the trailer for this video and be sure to support its creator this July 27th when it hits stores everywhere.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
A fraction of the price
So many of you may have already heard, considering this particular video is 2 years old; this man had an incredible record collection, that just recently sold. It made national news briefly as one of the largest if not the largest ebay sale EVER. It is a record collection consisting of somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.5 million records, give or take.
After seeing that, I'm left to wonder: will I ever have that many records? How many did this guy actually listen to? And, who bought this pile for such a deal? Irish bidder, loaded, I'm thinking Bono...
It's amazing to me to think that not only did it go for an extended period of time with little to no interest (I realize that is a lot of money and physical space), but that there was no interest from a museum or government. According to the statements made in the video, there is only a small percentage of that collection released outside of now extremely out of print vinyl. It is a piece of history and art to say the least.
Another interesting point is the sheer volume of music that is in that collection. Consider one Million LPs and 1.5 million 45's, if the average LP play time is 40 minutes, there is approximately 76 solid YEARS worth of music in the LPs alone. Thats music 24-7 for 76 years.
The equation:
1,000,000 records x avg 40min per record = 40,000,000 minutes
40,000,000 minutes/ 60 (min per hour)= 666,666.67 hours
666,666 hours/ 24 (hours per day)= 27,777 days
27,777 days/ 365 (days per year)= 76.1 years
Read more about it here:
http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/02/worlds-largest/
and here
http://www.xomba.com/record_collection_sold_on_ebay_for_3_million_dollars
The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.
After seeing that, I'm left to wonder: will I ever have that many records? How many did this guy actually listen to? And, who bought this pile for such a deal? Irish bidder, loaded, I'm thinking Bono...
It's amazing to me to think that not only did it go for an extended period of time with little to no interest (I realize that is a lot of money and physical space), but that there was no interest from a museum or government. According to the statements made in the video, there is only a small percentage of that collection released outside of now extremely out of print vinyl. It is a piece of history and art to say the least.
Another interesting point is the sheer volume of music that is in that collection. Consider one Million LPs and 1.5 million 45's, if the average LP play time is 40 minutes, there is approximately 76 solid YEARS worth of music in the LPs alone. Thats music 24-7 for 76 years.
The equation:
1,000,000 records x avg 40min per record = 40,000,000 minutes
40,000,000 minutes/ 60 (min per hour)= 666,666.67 hours
666,666 hours/ 24 (hours per day)= 27,777 days
27,777 days/ 365 (days per year)= 76.1 years
Read more about it here:
http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/02/worlds-largest/
and here
http://www.xomba.com/record_collection_sold_on_ebay_for_3_million_dollars
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