When people used to press bootleg recordings onto X-Rays to pass around Soviet Russia
See the original posting on Boing Boing
Brian Heater of TechCrunch has a fascinating post on his SubStack about “music on ribs” â when people in Soviet Russia would rip audio onto discarded X-Ray printouts in order to share them with friends:
It’s difficult to say whether Philo was first to discover that the soft, pliable nature of X-rays made them â if not ideal, then at least suitable media for pressing records.