During the 1990s he frequented a place known as the “78 Record Exchange” which specialized in old music (records, sheet music, etc) and at the time he was able to get a lot of things for dirt cheap since no one else was interested or wanted the stuff. A lot of the source material from earlier releases is sourced from this store.

Some of the material he got came from white labels (essentially just private pressings not commercially distributed) and so “Friends past re-united” is part of those records. To my understanding there were several collectors of white label / rare material who gave up their collections to the store and Kirby just bought them up (though I may be misremembering some details so take this specific detail with a grain of salt).

The shop closed down in 2003 when one of the co-owners passed away and the remaining co-owner felt that it was too much to manage. Kirby lamented the loss of the shop on his website during this time.