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kleinbl00  ·  3477 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How to pirate a vinyl record.




elizabeth  ·  3477 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You beat me to it! My dad loves to talk about the times he bootlegged the Beatles on the bones.

kleinbl00  ·  3477 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Okay, well that's awesome. I only heard about this a couple months ago and I'd love to know how they were made. The article I found doesn't really go into depth.

elizabeth  ·  3477 days ago  ·  link  ·  

He didn't make them actually, just had to buy them near the гум in moskow. They even got scammed a couple times. For what he tells me, the process sounds very similar to buying weed. It all died out in the beginning for the 70's tho because of magnetophones because people just started recording directly from the radio.

Here's the process illustrated in a russian series:

Edit: looks like Hubski doesn't acknowledge youtube time stamps, skip to 18:53

Not sure how accurate it is but it looks pretty dope.