TIL that in the USSR, when foreign music was banned, bootleg records were made on old x-rays pulled from medical trash. These were called “ribs” and “bone records”.

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1. The center circles were made by burning it with a cigarette and they were crudely hand cut around the edges.

   I just bought a bone record of Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire for my dad for Christmas. He’s not going to have a clue what I’m handing him.

   I also got myself The Doors’ Five to One because I can’t not have one too!

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2. Banning foreign music doesn’t exactly exude national confidence – what a strange thing to do.

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