Cratedigger

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.

Our audience tends to be what I would call ‘crate diggers’—people who like digging for new stuff.

A little crate-diggers’ paradise for collectors of Latin and easy listening music on vinyl.

Long a crate-digger’s grail and never before available on CD, this is one obscurity that really lives up to the hype.

But it was a chance encounter with Gilles Peterson, an influential U.K. radio personality and cratedigger with a knack for discovering raw talent, that helped move his [José James's] career into high gear.

The Beehive is half of a two-room shop that also contains Casbah Records, where cratediggers can flick through stacks of vinyl records while their friends or partners try on clothes next door.