WAUKESHA — "My name's Albumman Compton and I have over 23,000 albums and 38,000 autographs."

That's not a nickname — it's his legal name. Born Jim Compton, he officially changed it to Albumman Compton in 2005 because of his deep love for music and album collecting.

"Well they just started calling me Albumman cause I had the albums," Compton said.

A collection that fills an entire attic

Albumman lives in Waukesha, where his attic houses more than 20,000 records. The space is literally covered from floor to ceiling with vinyl. Not one bit of space is available. The roof and entire floor are covered in albums like wallpaper. Albumman has basically every record from every major band or artist from the 1950s to the 1990s, plus a few modern ones too.

Many of the albums are signed by the art

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