The collection includes more than 6 million songs on 3 million records and 300,000 compact discs. If you were to buy the whole thing on iTunes by the song — not that you’d be able to find all of them — the collection would run you $5,940,000 (in that sense, $3 million is a bargain).

Mawhinney says he kept collecting because he believed “someone had to preserve the music … the history,” but that he’s selling now due to “declining health and associated financial concerns.”

‘World’s Largest Record Collection’ for Sale on eBay | Listening Post from Wired.com