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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