Supercollectors: Why We Collect

Monday, February 13, 2012

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Collection of 8-track tapes (JMaz Photo/Josh Mazgelis/flickr)

Supercollectors

Supercollectors is our series about people with unusual collections of music and music-related stuff.
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“ To me, he's the guy you meet who's got a two-bedroom apartment and 30,000 records crammed into it.
— Susan Sliwicki, defining "Supercollector"

Today, we launch our weeklong Supercollectors series. We ask Susan Sliwicki, managing editor of Goldmine magazine, about the impulse to collect.

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Susan Sliwicki

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Art Elder from Houston TX

To help better understand collectors and collecting, I recommend my book, "The Art of Collecting", available on Amazon.com for $25. The book includes an entire chapter on "Why We Collect" and others that include helpful hints for good collecting habits. Collecting is all about the passion you feel for the object.

Please note that all author's royalties and publisher's profits are being donated to a scholarship fund operated by the International Paperweight Society Foundation.

Feb. 14 2012 10:38 AM

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zachmattheus

To my knowledge, Craig Kallman of Atlantic Records has a record collection that rivals just about anybody on earth. According to some articles around 300,000.

Feb. 13 2012 02:56 PM

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dboy

...lemme get this straight:

Men collect and women dust???

Feb. 13 2012 02:53 PM

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