See also: cratedigger

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crate-digger (plural crate-diggers)

  1. Alternative form of cratedigger
    • 1998 April, Scott Sterling, “Localzine: Detroit, Michigan”, in Scott Frampton, editor, CMJ New Music Monthly, Great Neck, N.Y.: College Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 77:
      Serious vinyl collectors will have a minor epiphany at Car City Classics [], where notorious crate-diggers like the UK's Kirk Degiorgio (a.k.a. As One) have been known to close the store.
    • 2003, Fiona McAuslan, Matthew Norman, Sarah Lazarus, “Havana and around”, in The Rough Guide to Cuba, 2nd edition, London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 154:
      A little crate-diggers’ paradise for collectors of Latin and easy listening music on vinyl.
    • 2008, Signal to Noise: The Journal of Improvised and Experimental Music, South Hero, Vt.: Pete Gershon, →OCLC, page 103:
      Long a crate-digger’s grail and never before available on CD, this is one obscurity that really lives up to the hype.