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collecting,” he said with a faraway look, adding in his younger years when rock first began his friends were all speeding their weekly allowance on Elvis albums.
His thoughts turned to his mother’s and father’s collections. Before he knew it, he was collecting from his grandparents’ collections and his neighbors.
Over the years, the collection has grown. “I say over 20,000,” he said with a smile, adding his son once started to count the collection as well as himself. All attempts have fallen short of exact numbers.
“Some are rare, some are expensive, some are junk,” Mr. Pierson said of his tremendous collection, adding its growth is only encouraged by his ability to never “pass up a junk store. That’s how 99 percent of all the recordings in my basement came about.
“The only time you have to pay a high price is when another collector has a title or artist you really want. Then, you can
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