A gentleman named Paul Mawhinney is selling his record collection on eBay this week, which wouldn’t be particularly notable if it weren’t “The Greatest Music Collection Ever.” That’s right - Mawhinney has been collecting records for sixty years, and has a warehouse full of more than 3 million albums to prove it. From his website:

Paul Mawhinney bought his first record sixty years ago. It was a Frankie Lane song. He played it ’til the grooves were gone. As soon as he had a little extra money, he bought another record. Then another and another. He loved the music.

Through his high school years, and later during his careers in the military, as a salesman and as a department store manager, he kept buying music. When his collection grew to 160,000 records, his wife gave him an ultimatum: Either he or the records had to go.

Paul stayed; the records went. He rented a warehouse with some retail space, where he did more buying than selling.

Let’s play a game! Name one awesome, life-changing record for you that Paul is probably missing. For me, I’ll say Meat Puppets II. Or, you know, Infinity on High.

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