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Article: WFMT's Tait puts new spin on collecting
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 9, 1988
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The movers thought they had seen it all.
And they had, so to speak. At least they were looking at a lot
of it - hundreds of boxes of phonograph records, 6,000 or 7,000 LP
albums.
But there were more, 30,000 or so.More records than a teenager's
distraught parents had ever feared existed. Enough records to stock
a record store or a radio station. More records than most people
would want to listen to in a lifetime.
Close to 40,000 classical music records, give or take a few
thousand and not even mentioning the CDs and tapes. LPs, 78s,
60-year-old records that weighed half a pound, two-year-old records
that weighed a few ounces.
More records, the movers decided, than they ever cared to ...