Listen to me Xray

This is crazy, apparently many bootleg records (78s?) were copied using Xray film in Communist era Russia. These inventive sound junkies utilized used Xray film to carve copies of recordings from the West for their listening pleasure.

Laws were passed in the Soviet Union to make the production and distribution of these one sider acetate-like recordings, and this era of sound enjoyment was effectively over in 1959.

Here on Street Use the whole story is told.