Brazilian bus magnate Zero Freitas, who has been buying up vinyl record collections for years. The total number of albums in his collection no one really knows, and he told New York Times Magazine it was around "several million albums."
A Brazilian Businessman Intends To Catalogue His Vast Collection For Public Use
Zero Freitas has been obsessed with music since he was a little boy growing up in Brazil.
Since buying his first record as a teenager, he has steadily built up a collection of vinyl to rival any in the world.
Now in his 60s, Freitas owns more than 5 million records, thanks largely to his fortune built operating a bus company in Sao Paulo.
He buys discs from all over the world and employs a team to process and catalogue them.
Now, in an interview with BBC News, Freitas has explained that the records are to be catalogued with a view to creating a searchable – and listenable – collection.
