a different random thought

[tvguy]

I was watching something about the fall of the USSR and came across this description of how illegal rock and roll music was smuggled into the USSR during the heyday of R&R on XRay discs which they cut the grooves into, (which, somehow I never had heard of) and found it intriguing.  You could just roll up the film and tuck it into your sleeve. Which is pretty cool.  The buyer would buy 'bones' or 'ribs' from the seller.  Just thought it was interesting, because I don't think I've ever seen this. I'm guessing people are familiar with this, but I wasn't.

I just recently read about this somewhere. Or maybe it was mentioned on American pickers.

I don't think I've ever heard of it before.

I hadn't either but Just within the last week or so I did... somewhere