These old records, still cult items in Nashville's used-record stores, are full of vocal gymnastics: soaring, bizarrely pronounced vowels ("time" as "toime"), sung in a jolting, elastic tenor.

There are probably a billion LP's out there that will end up in used-record stores, thrift shops and garage sales.

Tom Null, the label's executive vice-president and supervisor of the CD release, has his own "Casino Royale" story: used-record store, five years ago, two bucks.

Elisabeth Esselink, a k a Solex, writes and sings whimsical chronicles of the everyday bohemian life, set to samples from obscure LP's at the used-record store she runs.

I sold all my Stones albums to a used-record store for credit.

They buy and sell through an informal network of used-record stores, mail-order houses, magazines and, more recently, Web sites.

They do for used-record stores what R. Crumb and Harvey Pekar do for used comic-book stores.

A used-record store refuses to buy his mother's LP's.

Ms. Fenyvest says Jeff is a "recluse" who likes to poke around in the city's used-record stores.

To get the music, I had to go out to used-record stores, and I was paying up to $30 dollars per record.