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Before the availability of the tape recorder and during the 1950s, when vinyl was scarce, people in the Soviet Union began making records of banned Western music on discarded x-rays. With the help of a special device, banned bootlegged jazz and rock &lsquo;n&rsquo; roll records were &ldquo;pressed&rdquo; on thick radiographs salvaged from hospital waste bins and then cut into discs of 23-25 centimeters in diameter. &ldquo;They would cut the X-ray into a crude circle with manicure scissors 