Who Pressed Records onto Human X-Ray Vinyl?

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Who Pressed Records onto Human X-Ray Vinyl?

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The USSR banned lots of music after WWII, but young Soviet culture hounds called stilyagi bootlegged black market records onto discarded X-ray sheets. Learn about these bone records in this episode of BrainStuff.
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