World’s Biggest Record Collection to Become Public Archive

Zero Freitas has amassed what could be considered the largest collection of vinyl records in the

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Zero Freitas has amassed what could be considered the largest collection of vinyl records in the world, totaling 5 million. His interest in music spawned from youth became an extensive hunt-and-gather mission through life, and in an interview with BBC he notes that his collection went from 3,000 in high school to 30,000 by the time he was 30. Now at 61 years of age, Freitas is prepared to turn his extensive stockpile into a public, non-profit library for all music lovers. Check out his interview with BBC above.

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