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10 of the weirdest things that have been pressed into vinyl
From bodily fluids to space dust
Human X-Rays
In the mid-1900s, the underground Soviet group known as the ‘stilyagi’ famously made vinyl out of old human X-Rays.
Leaders of the movement, Ruslan Bogoslowski and Boris Taigin would collect disposed X-Rays from hospital bins to use as templates for pressing pirated music. The two would then hand-cut each out and use a cigarette to burn a hole in the middle.
The ‘stilyagi’ distributed the records on the black market, often featuring foreign artists prohibited by the Soviet government. As they gained popularity, authorities took note and sentenced both Bogoslowski and Taigin to five years of hard labor in Siberia.
