Record-Rama was the name of a Record and CD store in Pittsburgh, PA. It was founded by Paul Mawhinney, who over the years built the world's biggest record collection. Record-Rama was founded by Paul Mawhinney, himself a collector of vinyl records, and a significant help in restarting David Bowie's career by getting RCA boss Tom Causy to re-release the album Space Oddity in 1972 after its initial release in 1969 failed to hit.

Mawhinney started the shop after his personal collection reached the many thousands. It was his wife who told him to get rid of the records, or start up a business around them. In the years that followed, Mawhinney built the world's biggest record collection.

He also cataloged records in a directory he released called the MusicMaster. The first edition was released in 1982, and it came in two volumes; one listing by artist, the other by title. Record-Rama closed in the Summer of 2008, during the global credit crunch.

Mawhinney stated that he'd been squeezed out of business by the recording industry and large retailers who can sell compact discs to the public for less than his wholesale costs. Mawhinney started his record collection in 1951. The first record he ever bought was Frankie Laine's "Jezebel".

He built his collection into the thousands before he founded Record-Rama. After he set up shop, he decided to keep one copy of every record he sold in the shop, thus the final copy of anything was kept and archived. By the time the store closed in 2008, the collection stood at more than three million items and was valued at $50 million.

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