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If you love flipping through vinyl LPs at the record store, mark your calendar. A large collection will be available for viewing and purchase soon.
Online music marketplace and discography platform Discogs will begin selling renowned journalist and author Mikal Gilmore’s extensive personal music collection on Friday, July 17th.
In his 50 years writing for Rolling Stone, Gilmore has amassed a collection of more than 30,000 items, including many original records and first pressings, as well as “hundreds of promotional copies, advance releases, test pressings, press kits, and other works of music history,” according to a news release announcing the sale.
The first 1,000 items will go on sale on the Discogs website and mobile app on Friday, July 17th at 3pm ET or noon PT. Items on sale Friday include first pressings of Joni Mitchell’s “Blue” and David Bowie’s “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.” There are also test pressings of Bad Brains’ “Rock for Light” and New Order’s “Movement.”
“The Mikal Gilmore archive is one of the largest and best collections we have ever had the privilege of working with,” Lance Barresi, owner of LA’s Permanent Records, said in a news release. Permanent Records helps distribute Discogs.
“It’s in perfect condition and the amount of mayflies it contains is amazing,” Barresi said. “Among these 17,000 records are more promos and press kits than I’ve ever seen in one collection. The individual notes from some of the people who sent these records to Mikal are also beautiful and heartwarming. Mikal treasures the records very much, and we’re honored to help find them a new home.”
What is available on Discogs?
Discogs has millions of records, CDs, tapes, and videos available from independent sellers. Buyers and sellers can also list their collections on the Discogs database.
While some people are obsessed with collecting vinyl records, sales of new vinyl albums have also increased for the 19th consecutive year, increasing by 9.3% in 2025, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Sales exceeded $1 billion for the first time in decades, and vinyl sales continue to outpace music CDs.
Discogs expects there will be a lot of interest in selling Gilmour’s collection after the recent first online sale of 1,000 records from the collection of late Television frontman Tom Verlaine sold out in less than six hours on June 26th. Discogs will be selling new items from Verlaine’s collection on July 31st (each purchase will come with a certificate of authenticity proving the record is from Verlaine’s personal collection).
Gilmour’s collection includes test pressings of Bad Brains and New Order, first pressings of Joni Mitchell and David Bowie, as well as a first pressing of the Descendents’ “Milo Goes to College” (1982), a promotional copy of Alice in Chains’ 1990 “We Die Young” EP, and a copy of Bowie’s 1977 album “Low” with original promotional materials.
While at Rolling Stone, Gilmore interviewed and reported on artists such as Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Mick Jagger, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, and David Bowie.
In addition to his work as music editor for LA Weekly and the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Gilmore has written books about music and culture, including his 1994 book Shot in the Heart, about his family and his older brother, Gary Gilmore, who was executed by firing squad in Utah in 1977 after admitting to two murders.
Gilmore declined to comment on the sale, but continues to write on Nightbeat Substack. In a January 2026 post, he wrote about how his collection of about 20,000 vinyl records, another 20,000 CDs, and thousands more albums on hard drives and in the cloud had become “problematic.”
According to Discogs, much of the collection reflects the collection of artists Gilmour has featured as part of his work, and “offers collectors a rare opportunity to own records associated not only with the artist himself, but with one of the journalists who helped shape how generations experience their work.”
Mike Snyder is a national trends news reporter for USA TODAY. You can follow him on Threads, Bluesky, and X, and email him at: mike snyder & @mikegsnider.bsky.social & @mikesnider & msnider@usatoday.com.
