Today's the day! Here is your chance to own a piece of Mikal Gilmore's vinyl record collection. His record collection includes over 20,000 LP and another 20,000 CDs! Mikal's collection was acquired by Permanent Records last year, and Permanent Records is now selling the entire collection on Discogs. Collectors will surely want a shot at buying a few pieces from this collection.
The Collection will be sold in small batches starting today, Friday July 17, 2026 at 12pm Pacific Time. Good luck to everyone!
For over forty years, Mikal Gilmore was one of rock journalism’s most soulful voices, profiling giants like Bruce Springsteen and Kurt Cobain for Rolling Stone. But for Gilmore, music was never just a job—it was a lifeline. His career as a critic is deeply intertwined with a heavy, painful personal history. He is best known for his devastating 1994 memoir, Shot in the Heart, which explored his family’s traumatic legacy and the 1977 execution of his brother, Gary Gilmore. Throughout his life, music served as his ultimate escape and emotional shield from that darkness.
To cope, Gilmore built a massive physical sanctuary: a staggering collection of 40,000 records and CDs that eventually came to dominate his home and his relationships. He wrote candidly about this lifelong obsession on his Substack, Night Beat, describing how he clung to his music through heartbreak and severe illness, before finally making the difficult decision to let the physical collection go.
