The Record Collector is owned by Sanders Chase. I've only met him once
so I will refrain from commenting on my impressions of his character,
but there are plenty of people on Yelp who have no shame about such
things.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-record-collector-los-angeles

David Seubert

On Aug 18, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Rod Smear wrote:

> Yes, I know of him. He's on Melrose now. Same old.
>
> rod smear
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Cary Ginell
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 11:53 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] music man murray record collection & Murray
> Gershenz, music collector extraordinaire, is parting with his entire
> music library.
>
>
> I remember the store on Highland. I think it was called The Record
> Collector. It was chiefly classical records, and a good supply of it
> at that. Not the bottom-of-the-barrel stuff that Murray housed. The
> Highland shop did have a few 10-inch jazz and folk LPs, which I
> scarfed up at a decent price because the snob who ran the place
> looked down his nose at them. It was like in the Three Stooges short
> where Moe, Larry, and Curly are thumbing through a stack of hundred
> dollar bills: $100, 200, 300, 400, 500, oh! here's a five," and they
> toss it away.
>
> Cary Ginell
>
>> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:22:09 -0500
>> From: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] music man murray record collection & Murray
>> Gershenz, music collector extraordinaire, is parting with his
>> entire music library.
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>
>> I recall the excitement when first moved to LA at the prospect of
>> going to
>> Murray's. Then I went. Dashed hopes. Only to be outdone by the
>> music shop
>> on Highland at Santa Monica, with a shopkeeper even more arrogant
>> than
>> Murray. I hate to see record (and book) shops close but when their
>> "owner"
>> behaves as these folks have, give me the internet any day.
>>
>> Alan Carrie
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Cary Ginell <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The point differentiating "stock" from "collection" is well-taken
>>> in this
>>> case. To my knowledge, Murray as never been anything but a
>>> shopkeeper. He
>>> has no private collection to my knowledge and really isn't all that
>>> concerned with the finer points of discographical research as are
>>> serious
>>> collectors. He never worked hard to make his a better business. He
>>> just
>>> opened his doors and expected to sell his schlock for whatever
>>> ridiculous
>>> prices he posted on them. He has been reviled in L.A. for decades
>>> as being a
>>> grumpy, mean, brusque, and difficult person. The last time I
>>> visited his
>>> shop was maybe 25-30 years ago, when it was on Santa Monica Blvd.
>>> near
>>> Western, a bad part of town even then. What he's got now is most
>>> likely the
>>> same stuff, only rifled through even further. There may be some
>>> choice items
>>> that he set aside (some of which he has displayed during
>>> interviews), but I
>>> can almost guarantee that they are a miniscule percentage of his
>>> holdings
>>> and certainly not representative of all that is there. If his
>>> business were
>>> doing well, he wouldn't need to find a new profession at his
>>> advanced age.
>>> He could have just dumped what was left and gone off to some
>>> island in
>>> blissful retirement. But creating a new image of himself as a
>>> "lovable old
>>> coot" on TV shows is easier for him and probably earns him a much
>>> better
>>> income than selling records. If these records end up in a land fill
>>> somewhere, they probably won't be missed.
>>>
>>> Cary Ginell
>>>
>>>
>