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TIL Ribs, music recordings on X-rays, to smuggle and distribute prohibited music in the USSR. The films were bought or taken from the trash, cut into 7-inch discs, and the center hole was burned via a cigarette. The quality was awful, the price was low, and could really only be played 5 to 10 times.

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