Paul Mawhinney, a Harrisburg, PA business businessman is putting his private record collection up for sale on eBay, which wouldn’t be such a big deal if it weren’t arguably the World’s Greatest Music Collection, consisting of over 3 million records, 300,000 CDs and over 6 million song titles:

Every genre of American music is represented: rock; jazz; country; R&B; blues; new age; Broadway and Hollywood; bluegrass; folk; children’s; comedy; Christmas, and more. No other collection in the world – publicly or privately held – even comes close.

More than half of the recordings in this incredible collection are NEW, with individual records worth hundreds or thousands of dollars each on the collectibles market. Covering many decades of music, the collection includes 78’s, 45 singles and EP’s, LP’s, and CD’s.

At present the collection is stored in a 16,000-foot climate controlled warehouse, where Mawhinney has been busy attempting to catalog the contents of the collection, but, according to his web site “ Advancing age, declining health and associated financial concerns, are forcing the owner of the collection to part with the result of his lifelong passion. It’s not a decision made lightly or without considerable soul searching.” And though he has put his collection on the open market, starting his eBay auction at a cool $3,000,000, Mawhinney is only interested in selling the collection to the right sort of buyer:

The history of 20th century music belongs in a museum (existing or new), or a music library. The collection’s owner is seeking a private collector or a philanthropist willing to buy and donate the collection. A donation would qualify as a tax-deductible event. The collection contains many thousands of duplicate copies, which could be sold individually on the collectibles market to recoup a substantial part of the purchase price. If you’re contemplating creating a museum around the collection, we can help with additional exhibits and design services.

So hey, rich fucks. Need to bury a few million in tax burden in some charitable cause? Why notbuy this record collection for your alma mater and be the coolest alumus in the history of the universe? Even better, if you’re a rich fuck interested in the lulz (ATTN: MARC ECKO), why not buy this shit and put it all on Limewire? Kids who would rather buy bottles of Mad Dog with their allowance than music will thank you for your generosity!

Video Matt’s been on the grind this week for sure, hollering at all badass mofos such as:

Armor For Sleep frontman Ben Jorgenson.

Gabe Saporta of Cobra Starship, who was kind enough to offer up some toothbrushing tips.

Some folks from the mega-rad Peta2 operation, which is certainly timely given this week’s beef recall, the biggest in history

There’s about 23092383 more awesome video interviews and a bunch of live footage of your favorite bands over at the Synthesis YouTube channel, so check that shit out on the SAP.

But really, what worthwhile thing on the internet is SFW? There will be dirty words following the jump, so if you’re the type of person who gets offended easily…seriously, what are you doing on the internet?
Turn this off before you burn your eyes and go back to the warm embrace of mommy or Jesus.
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I’ve been to my share of Sacramento Kings games and even though they don’t really win that much anymore maybe they could have some NBA Hot Cheerleader battle or something since this whole “hot cheerleader” photo thing has gotten the Kings more attention this season then anything else. I’m sure you might have seen
this by now about the lovely (and talented) Kings “dancer” / Cheerleaders. Now people are freaking out on the “internets” about it. I say - let them have fun… I say “right on”.

I’m just wondering where the rest of the photos from this seemingly epic night actually went. In hopes of finding more and in the spirit of sharing we bring you some more photos of the Sacramento Kings Cheerleaders.

So srsly… where are the rest?

So it appears some of the cheerleaders from the NBA’s Sacramento Kings may have enjoyed a little extra camera time. The pictures, some of which may be as old as two years, were surfaced from a photobucket account by blog site withleather.com, but you can view the pictures here. The powers that be within the King organization have taken embarrassment over the situation. Owner Gavin Maloof in the Sac Bee…

“We obviously don’t condone that type of behavior. We’ll deal with it internally.”

Sure you don’t condone that behavior, Mr. Maloof. That’s why you’re the North State leader in double-D cash stuffing. Come on now, if anybody really gives a damn about these pictures, they are in need of a serious reality check. How different are these photos from those of a cheerleader’s swimsuit calendar? Four girls sporting G-strings… Ever see a muscle car magazine at Barnes & Noble? What, champagne bottles? Yowza! Woman on woman kiss? Forget about it.

If you happen to be one of the people that takes offense to these photos, crawl back into the time machine, set the dial for 1955, and get outta here.

Our fashion correspondent Brittany attended MacWorld Expo a short while back, where she met up with a few vendors. Enjoy this clip with Brit interviewing Crumpler’s Lindsay Cousley. He gets super POLITIKAL about his laptop bags.

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