Communist X-Ray bootleg records. A cool story.

[Tiltsta]

An interesting story on the Soviet era record industry, bootlegging, and medical X-Ray plates. I had never heard of this before and found it to be a cool bit of oddball history. Here is the link.

http://gizmodo.com/the-bizarre-history-of-x-ray-records-and-early-music-pi-1621176133

 

[shoeless]

That's pretty crazy, I've never heard of that before. Yet another example of the power of music and the desire to have it, creating innovative, if not bizarre solutions.

 

[Tig]

Da, we invented music pirating.

 

[tiger roach]

There's also a cool link on that page, "A compilation of people fucking up the ice bucket challenge."

 

[Gary Blanchard]

There was I show I watched on TV about the Beatles and the Kremlin, and they talked about these. Very ingenious.

 

[cuffdc]

In Soviet Russia, records listen to you.

 

[Mark Wein]

Thats pretty cool.

 

[dodgechargerfan]

Cool!

 

[jaxn slim]

I want one. Preferably an x-ray of someone's colon full of meat.

 

[OGG]

colon full of meat.

MTR