This is amazing.

Paul Mawhinney is a Pittsburgh man who owns the biggest record collection ever - it's made up of 3 million records, 300,000 CDs and a whole load of other recordings in other formats. And after years of buying and adding to the collection, he's now selling it. WOW.

The collection is currently up for sale on eBay but from Mawhinney's official website, it looks like he's looking for an institution that can maintain the collection in tact since it appears that it is one of the most complete musical collections ever. There is a hole load of history and WHY the collection is important, over at Mawhinney's website. I hope he finds the right person to take on his passion. This looks like the sort of thing Paul Allen should be picking up to add to his already extensive music collection - I could see this as an integral part of the the Experience Music Project.

And just for fun, here's a clip of Rob, the protagonist from High Fidelity talking about deleted Smiths singles. I hate this character. Both in the book and in the movie. He's such an asshole but this is the sort of obsessive thing that leads to 3,000,000+ record collections.