February 21, 2008 –
Paul Mawhinney’s collection of 3 million vinyl records, amassed over 40 years while he owned a record store in Pittsburgh, was sold on eBay for $3,002,150, on this date. The bid was a sham, it turned out to be an unsuspecting Irishman who said his account had been hacked.
Mawhinney held onto his collection until 2013, when he sold it to the Brazilian collector Zero Freitas.
Mr. Freitas currently now owns over six million records, a collection which he intends to catalogue for public use and transform into a vast listenable archive.
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