http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/09/10/trying-to-sell-the-worlds-largest-record-collection/

"Five years ago, a young director made a documentary about a man named Paul Mawhinney who owns the largest record collection in the world. The short piece told the story of Paul’s struggle to keep his archive alive. In 2008, he had to close his store, Record-Rama, where he sold music and kept the last copies of every record he had collected over the decades for archival purposes. Paul estimated to having close to 2.5 million total recordings and around one million albums in his collection, many extremely rare (including a never publicly released Rolling Stones album)."

Too terrible to even comprehend.

Records are for listening to, not archiving.

Did I read right, that the collection was housed in warehouses that were burned down?

One can only imagine.