this guy is not a pack rat ...hes a muthafuckin LEGEND!!!

Its organised and clean and properly stored and easy to find each record. Seems like he's living the dream to me.

I have 1500LPs and 2000 45s and it feels like a lot , this collection has blown my mind wow

I use to go to Record Rama when it was in Etna Pa. / Pittsburgh. I would look at all the Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Dave Clark Five for as long as my dad would let me. I have always been a big record collector my who life. I go for more CD's now. Running out of room for records. I need my own house.

im so proud love u pap.

yo i feel sorry for him and the only thing i can say is most of the people who appreciate this cant afford it and the ones who can afford this dont want it

Awesome that he is an Elvis fan. Elvis was all over this video. Two thumbs up!

I love records and Mp3s. Someone told me his uncle had over fifteen thousand records. I have some albums, and singles, but not that many. Awesome collection.

he looks good for his age this is a man who has class when it come to records.

record heaven wow ! ! ! !

I wish I had that kind of space. My modest collection of 50,000 or so records is already filling up 4 houses.

Man if I was a music artist or celebrity I would have a giant music room built and buy this man's collection.

I work as a professional forensic audio engineer and am fairly surprised to see how much of the, "archive" is stored and how he handles the materials with his bare hands, casually allowing the dirt and oil from his fingers to contact the media. Not a single roll around trolley in the place, either.

wow amazing from La Paz-Bolivia

For the love of god, put your records (at least the valuable ones) in sleeves.

This man is a hero.

Great Video, The Owner that show seems cool! He is like a walking Google for Vinyl!

Awesome...Congratulations my brother.Love u're collections.I myself is a records collectors too.But trust me,i don't own as much as records that u own.U have spectacular collection ya ;) Keeit up & god bless u - . Amo from Malaysia.

And after all these years, the man is still touching the grooves with his fingers.

I hope all your records find happy music lovin' homes!

This man's record collection should be in the Guinness World records for the biggest record collection in the world.

Spent hours and hours there. He showed me around the archive area once. By then, I'd sadly be the only customer in the store for hours.

That archive is my dream xD

Absolutely incredible!

i envey this guy this guy is awsome.

magnifique

I have such a masive respect for this man, and i really hope his coll. finds a new home etc?

If we open a museum, it's got to be right there or next door. Moving that many not only hard, its impossible.

His collection is valued at $50 Million GEEGEE

oh my god!

@audiolabguy I agree that he handles the records wrong(a true archive of any kind requires the use of gloves, no exceptions). Likely the trolleys/carts were parked in a side work room where sorting is done. I've worked on many documentaries (mostly shooting film not video), and it's common to prep a location before shooting. If for no other reason, they may have parked the carts out of view to allow for easier dolly or SteadiCam shooting. Perhaps the Smithsonian will buy this archive...

A fiend of mine had one of these huge collections. He lost it all in a house fire.

record drama,i feel for this cool old cat.i feel this could easily happen to me if i had access to all he's had access to.i wouldnt be able to stop,i know that much.

From Frankie Laine to..............Everybody!

after 10 years I have about 500 albums some quite rare. I am jealous.

No outer sleeve for Rubber Soul??

O_O wow thats of records

will someone please step up and buy this collection... If nothing else the National Archive should step up and but these... The National Archive said a few years back that only 17% of the music from the late 40s to the early 60's are on CD... We need this collection...

@rlholo True, true. I took the question literally. If he meant his response to be about sentimental value, then I totally understand. However, he did mention dollar value on the record, and I don't recall anything about sentimentality, which makes me think he meant his response as to monetary value. I have no qualms... his collection is awesome, it just struck me that he didn't have more jaw-dropping items to show in those rows and rows of records.

I wonder what reggae LP,7,10& 12 inches he has ????

GOOD FOR YOU PAUL - you deserve to retire - this is a wonderful legacy you've built !

If i were to come by fortunate enough to buy Record Rama i would pay a good amount n then ask paul mawhinneys wife to donate that to charity !😊😊

Is this still in PA?

Lotta Pablo Cruise there

I just hope record-rama doesn't become a record-drama ;)

Dude this guy again, I am surprised the DJ's haven't hit him up yet

@filibusted Plus he said Rubber Soul was "semi-rare." Not at all. I have to say I was a little disappointed that when asked about what record he'd want to run out of a fire with, it's one that's only worth a few hundred dollars. He has one of, if not THE biggest collections on the planet, and no Blue Note jazz from the 50s that routinely fetches well over $1,000 on eBay? That's just one example, but just saying it seems to imply he has a lot of fairly average records. Does anyone know otherwise?

@ToiletBomberAlpha You are right that it may be a further loss for American culture, not that the entire archive is only American music. Perhaps organizations like the Perringer and Ochs archives will join together to raise the money to save this collection. It is so much more than just Paul's legacy. Some of the music may be in the public domain now, most of it copyrighted. Hard to do all of the licensing to make it available to the public in an archive/library.

Years opon years ago no(about 18 now) i came across a collection of DEAN MARTIN, ENGLEBIRD HUMPERDINK , MEL TORME , ELVIS, FRANK SINATRA and a few others.....ALL SITTING ON THE FREAKING GARBAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i could'nt believe it, i don't know if anyone took any but if they didn't.....ALL THAT GREAT MUSIC WENT STRAIGHT TO THE DUMP...wow.

Yay 200,000 copies of Ray Conniff, Mantovani,Vaughn Meader and Firestone Christmas lps zzzzzz

Did Zero end up buying all of this??

@Ranckow I'd volunteer 3 months a year to help run the archive.

I wonder if Paul knew a Jim Danas of Queens, NY, who was another avid record collector.

@dimebagdave77 I agree. In fact, it's a bit insulting to his legacy for them to lump him in with all of the disfuncional hoarders by calling him a "pack rat". That really blows! He is an archivist. There is nothing physically "pack ratty" about his archive. Notice that we didn't see any old food or a million cats hanging around. The man was serious, though I wish he'd handle the records with gloves on. Sadly, most of the 16-25 year olds don't have a clue about the value of this archive.

the crazy guy who is trying to have every record released who lives in Brazil bought them all :)

What prog rock bands do you like?

@HunterMann I do!

If I had the money, I would pay 4.5 million dollar for this!

does he have 78s too he said he has them computerized does that mean he record all the records as mp3s or just the titles that will be good if he made mp3s of them all that will be alot of songs because lps has about ten songs and 45s has two songs bye now

Kinda crazy he's blind too. He really knows that places by square inch.

@ThePentagram9 and A Day In The Races :)

@knewknew I doubt that there are warehouses full of hand-picked LPs and 45's. Remember, most of the archive is single copies of records. It's not a warehouse with 6,000 copies of the same John Denver or Carpenter's LP. What surprises me it that vinyl collectors like Eddie Vedder and Neil Young have not bought this archive. I know an old DJ in the Caribbean who has about half a million LPs in his home archive. When a collection gets that big, it requires a staff to keep up with it.

In the meantime, discogs has become the go to database for records (meaning Paul missed a real chance, as discogs now sells 6 million items per year) and while such a large collection is eyebrow raising at first, real collecting is all about quality over quantity.

@rlholo Just watched it again... He was actually asked about the value, so never mind on that point. Maybe he was coming from a place of sentimentality. Anyway, it's just something that struck me.

If i looked through these i'd probably find 1 record i wanted. Would be like looking through a huge charity shop finding orchestra, ,Xmas comps and other rubbish.

I saw another video of Mr. M,and he is losing his sight.Must find a buyer .:o*(

interesting...this meticulous guy has a teddy roosevelt tribute record from 1881? The year TR was first elected to the New York State Assembly? And it's on the first flat record ever pressed? That wasn't invented until 1887? That wasn't marketed in Europe until 1889? That wasn't marketed in the US until 1894? Fascinating that an "archivist" would mess all that up. Probably from 1901, when TR took office.

Wonder if he had overseas records such as the Quarrymen (the legendary Beatles were known by this name before they became famous with their other namesake). Or record by The Wynners from Hong Kong, another famous group from the 70s.

this fellow has over 3 million LP`S & out of all those , guess what LP shows up at 2:36 in ?! [Thanks to Tom Conway for bringing this STORIES "AU" sighting to my attention!]

@pablos778 Muy interesante su pensamiento sobre la cantidad de discos ,las horas y años tras años para escuchar ellos... que cosa! Espero que este archivo pueden sobrevivir, si no es compra de un solo persona, quizas hay 60 inversionistas con 50 mil dolares cad uno? Viva los discos de acetate!

People who have$ don't give a fuck and people who gives a fuck don't have$.

@gorrilatape im 12 i want it but i dont have 3 million dollars or any where to put them

what is that reason?why do u think its a joke?i know he's a little eccentric but i feel he's a kindred spirit to me.

Pongamos que todos los discos que tienes sumen un total de 1 millon de horas de duración, eso significaria que deberias estar escuchando 114 años musica sin parar para escucharlos todos. Obsesión no devoción.

MAN CAN I BUY SOME OF YOUR 45S AND 33S DO YOU TAKE MONEY ORDERS

(4:03) I have Betals - Rubber Soul in vinyl. I bougt it in pawn shop for $15.00 when I whent home to look at it and play with it I found that it has some writing on the jacket and the sleve and I found out that the record has has been stolen from a radio studeo. And I'm not kidding or blowing smoke(lyeing, don't know what I'm taking about ) I bleve that the album i have is werth $25.00 I think.

His collection is estimated at 50 million, but he is selling it for 3 million

l like vynyl guitar .I want buy .

He sold whole collection to Brasil. It is true or not?

Almost as big as Bananas Records in St. Petersburg

@ToiletBomberAlpha In my opinion, the archive is worth more than the sum total of the estimated re-sale or the current collector's pride guides. The Archive as a single item is easily worth that $50 mil, even though there were no bids at the $3 mil asking price. When I see the silly blin-bling cars & cribs of today's big music stars, it's is absurd that none of them are educated nor cultured enough to value The Archive. Perhaps we need 60 serious investors, at $50K each...

@vinylgal89 i was saying that because i wouldnt ever be able to afford it ever especially this age (well im 13 now)

How are you going to show up to this collection & ask for an album like "Rubber Soul"? An album that is common to find in the average collection next-door. Ask for some obscure titles, hell even some Can.

Also, not impressed. An original 1977 UK pressing of "Never Mind the Bollocks: Here's the Sex Pistols" w/Submission 7" and poster easily go for 1-2k in Near Mint condition. Pulling out the Elvis seemed to cater to what most people would expect instead of what was actually the most rare.

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Wow. Has he listened to all of those records?

I wonder if this dude has any hip-hop or skramz

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@HunterMann I'm 14 and I know this collection is godly. This guy is legendary!

Sean Dunne's 'The Archive' portrays Paul's collection with much higher value and meaning than this...

Hi I got like 800 hundred discos and I whan to sell

great stuff but he might need to do a little more research on the tribute record to Teddy Roosevelt that he says is from 1881. TR was Prez in the 1900's so not entirely sure he's got that all right.

I give this show concept a thumbs up.. the host is a bore

QUITE THE DIFFERENCE

Wouldn't you like to be him.

Can somebody tell me why this guy is going to sell his massive, priceless, invaluable record collection...just because he's going to be 70 years old? I would keep the collection and enjoy it until I took my last breath. Then, someone else could have it. Can anyone explain?

I'm surprised a rich famous musician doesn't buy this collection like Bono or Paul McCartney or a movie star. 3 mil is nothing to them,for this. I would buy it in a second .Maybe it's just full of crap, in bad condition but I doubt it?I would imagine theyre are tons of gems in there.There are a lot more rare records worth more than $400-$600!...even a first Nirvana pressing will cost $1000.( I could never afford that by the way). I love records but i believe it should be broken up and sold. Mus

You have less subscribes than most though 😆

He lost credibility when it was discovered that he seriously overstated the value of some of his discs.

Pity it's just crappy Elvis records