PORTLAND, Ore. -- There’s an old groove coming back around at your local Fred Meyer -- vinyl.

The LP record new and rereleases started showing up at many stores last week next to the CD bins, to the shock of many music collectors young and old.

In the bins at Fred’s you can find the latest by REM, The Racontuers, Bruce Springsteen, Radiohead and reissues by the likes of Metallica and the Beatles.

And Fred Meyer spokesperson Melinda Merrill said that it all started by mistake.

It turns out REM’s latest release, Accelerate, had an option for distributors to ship it on vinyl or CD and someone hit the wrong button -- so the vinyl showed up at all stores. Some clerks decided to make room for them -- then they started selling.

Several current artists are releasing new albums on vinyl -- the last Elvis Costello and the Imposters album, Momofuku, was at first put out only on record, before it was available digitally and then on CD.

"It's bizarre, man," former record store owner Ryder Greene said. "It's like vinyl is coming back and destroying CDs, which are the 8-track of the future."

“(The new releases) are manufactured better than older records,” said Dewey Mahood, used music buyer at Music Millennium. “They’re bigger, heavier.”

It appears the trend towards digital music and away from CD buying has many going for the rawer tones of vinyl, and converting to MP3 with the advent of USB turntables and converters. Of course, it never left the world of DJ clubs and hip-hop, with a high-end market cropping in recent decades up for turntables and accessories to scratch and mix.

"We talk about this backstage; as musicians it comes up a lot," Jack White told the boston Globe. "(It's) not just the sound quality, but the artwork, the experience of holding something tangible in your hands."

The Associated Press reports in the past year 858,000 LPs were sold compared with 553.4 million CDs, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The overall trend for CD sales has been down from 1.5 million in 2000, AP reported.

“I was totally shocked,” to see records at Fred Meyer’s Mahood added. “It’s definitely back. It’s more interesting that so much is being reissued and re-presses, feeding the collector’s market.”

Still, music experts aren’t going as far as to say vinyl could take over again.

"Except for collectors, most people could care less though," Greene said. "Most people will just download all thier music."

Merrill said now they stock about 20 titles at 60 stores. And they plan to expand perhaps as soon as later this month. A turntable model with a built-in CD burner should also be in stock by fall.

"We will definitely continue to sell vinyl."