Mingering Mike
I first heard about Mingering Mike in an issue of the magazine waxpoetics. The story goes that two crate-diggers Dori Hadar and Frank Beylotte found a very large collection of home-made LPs (with hand-drawn LPs DIY-shrink-wrapped and even vinyl-replacement cardboard discs with grooves drawn on them) at a flea market in Washington. There's a selection of these artefacts by the imaginary Soul Star here at Mike's site.
Hadar and Beylotte initially broke their story at a long-deleted thread at The Soul Strut Forum, home of the heaviest Funk, Soul and Jazz collectors; deleted because the two had pangs of remorse about making Mike's stuff available before establishing contact with him. However, now with Mike discovered and firmly on side, a whole book of his work has been issued. It's a beautifully put together, quite fascinating document.