[WGH]

That's a lot of vinyl



Wanted: A Home for Three Million Records

The ARChive of Contemporary music is looking for a new home

"Inside its space on White Street, there are shelves upon shelves upon shelves of vinyl records and CDs. Signed Johnny Cash records hang close to nearly 1,800 other signed albums. There are boxes of big band recordings, world music and jazz and original soundtracks. Most of the inventory is stored in the basement below.

"Notably, the archive, which still receives about 250,000 recordings a year, is home to a majority of Keith Richards’s extensive blues collection. (Mr. Richards, of the Rolling Stones, sits on the board of advisers.)

"And now it all has to go, somewhere."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/nyregion/Archive-of-Contemporary-Music-NYC.html

[blazingsaddlez]

That's just nuts. Lets say you had easy access to all the records. Then you spent a total of 10 seconds pulling it off the shelf, looking at the jacket, and then putting it back on the shelf before going to the next record. At 12 hours a day, it would take you around 700 days just to see them all!

I'd sure hate to be on record cleaning detail....