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“In the beginning, the novel had nothing to do with perfume, I just liked the title — which I jacked from a 1950s out-of-print lesbian pulp novel,” she says, “but then I started collecting all this niche perfume knowledge and I knew I had to put it into the book. Once the book came out, I had all these new ‘fraghead’ followers, some of whom have become friends and my perfume obsession just continued.”

The session yielded “This Close to You,” a long out-of-print album originally released in 1977, which will hit streaming services on Friday.

Still, with its out-of-print obscurities and several unreleased live recordings, the compilation reaffirms just how unusual the music that Grubbs and O’Rourke made during their five-year run still is.

But as a kinesiology student at Fresno State, he was handed an out-of-print textbook that told him he had it all wrong.

An elder musician might be priced out of EBay auctions for his own out-of-print records.