McKay's Acquires 50,000 Used LPs, Enters the Record Store Day Fray

In late February, a Craigslist post advertising

had record nerds across the city triple-checking their bank accounts and evaluating which of their organs they could sell to put up the $150,000 asking price. Larry Woodlee, the owner of the

, hoped to sell the whole business to one interested buyer. Instead,

, a fraction of those LPs have found a home at McKay’s Used Books.

Putting aside Fox’s egregious usage of “vinyls” — as any seasoned record collector will tell you, the plural of vinyl is vinyl — the recently April Fooled local news station reported last Friday that Woodlee struck a deal with McKay’s to offload 50,000 LPs for an undisclosed sum. I can only assume that it was $30,000 in cash or $45,000 in store credit and all the Danielle Steele novels Woodlee could handle.

There’s no indication of what exactly made it into that 50,000 buy, but the news clip suggests a heavy dose of classic rock and country flooding the market, particularly noting multiples of records by Bruce Springsteen, The Beatles and Garth Brooks. All of the records skimmed out of Woodlee's collection will land on McKay's racks on this year's Record Store Day, April 18. In the meantime, if you're in the market for a mystery batch of 200,000 records, I happen to know a guy who's holding.