Vinyl Fetish

Vinyl FetishBack in the day, a stag party record like Humpingville U.S.A. ("small-town hicks getting their kicks") was akin to a mink-phallus necklace--less than desirable and extremely hard to find. Which, of course, is what makes it a precious collectible today. Over the past five years, a growing number of collectors have bid on obscure sleazecake LPs as if they were Monets and Van Goghs. "It's hard to believe that these were ever made," says Matthew Glass, a New Yorker wh...