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The Brazilian Bus Magnate who's buying all the world's vinyl records
Posted on 8/13/14 at 8:09 am
Posted on 8/13/14 at 8:09 am
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Excellent profile piece in the NYT.
Excellent profile piece in the NYT.
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In an office near the back of his 25,000-square-foot warehouse in São Paulo, Zero Freitas, 62, slipped into a chair, grabbed one of the LPs stacked on a table and examined its track list. He wore wire-rimmed glasses, khaki shorts and a Hard Rock Cafe T-shirt; his gray hair was thin on top but curled along his collar in the back. Studying the song list, he appeared vaguely professorial. In truth, Freitas is a wealthy businessman who, since he was a child, has been unable to stop buying records. “I’ve gone to therapy for 40 years to try to explain this to myself,” he said.
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The interns can collectively catalog about 500 records per day — a Sisyphean rate, as it happens, because Freitas has been burying them with new acquisitions. Between June and November of last year, more than a dozen 40-foot-long shipping containers arrived, each holding more than 100,000 newly purchased records. Though the warehouse was originally the home of his second business — a company that provides sound and lighting systems for rock concerts and other big events — these days the sound boards and light booms are far outnumbered by the vinyl.
Many of the records come from a team of international scouts Freitas employs to negotiate his deals. They’re scattered across the globe — New York, Mexico City, South Africa, Nigeria, Cairo. The brassy jazz the interns were listening to on the office turntable was from his man in Havana, who so far has shipped him about 100,000 Cuban albums — close to everything ever recorded there, Freitas estimated. He and the interns joke that the island is rising in the Caribbean because of all the weight Freitas has hauled away.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 8:34 am to quail man
Great read.
I couldn't imagine owning all of that. I'll be the single-handedly keeps some record stores in business.
I couldn't imagine owning all of that. I'll be the single-handedly keeps some record stores in business.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 9:49 am to ag3ntpurpl3
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I'll bet he single-handedly keeps some record stores in business.
I'll bet he's more responsible for buying them out completely...
j/k
I read that last week and want a job! I would no longer feel guilty about record buying habits..
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:47 am to quail man
Too long of an article to read right now, but what is his reasoning?
Just OCD or is he going to do something with them?
Thats a fricking shame he's got all of that because I am sure there are a shite ton of gems that people would truly cherish in there. Instead, he's just got it on pallets rotting away.
Just OCD or is he going to do something with them?
Thats a fricking shame he's got all of that because I am sure there are a shite ton of gems that people would truly cherish in there. Instead, he's just got it on pallets rotting away.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:57 am to Lsut81
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Thats a fricking shame he's got all of that because I am sure there are a shite ton of gems that people would truly cherish in there. Instead, he's just got it on pallets rotting away.
that was my initial thought heading into the article, but read it later when you have time and you may change your mind. he's cataloging it and digitizing a lot of the stuff that's never been (article mentions like 80% of music in one country that hasn't been made digital).
but it does seem he's a bit of a hoarder and he does have a number of duplicates (article mentions him having 10 of multiple records but he refuses to part with them because they are "all so different"). i hope he does start to sell some of them back off. no need to have them all in a warehouse…plus, they can warp to shite like that.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 12:55 pm to quail man
I will say the artwork on LP's was really cool back in the day. I think that was a big attraction, sometimes as much as the music.
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