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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.

And then, said Dawson: “The thing that was really hard for the out-of-print book trade was the advent of the internet.”