In the 1950s and 60s, foreign music was censored in the Soviet Union. So bootleggers made illegal records out of old X-ray film: the jazz on bones.

Dmitry Rozhkov [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

This is not even the oddest material used to make a record. Some American companies printed working records onto cereal boxes – like the jazz on bones they only worked a few times before (presumably) disintegrating. Mad Magazine once issued a cardboard record as well. The country of Bhutan once printed functional records onto postage stamps. They played the national anthem, folk tunes, and a little history of the country.

• Ribs (recordings)
• Cardboard record
• Postage stamps and postal history of Bhutan

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The Generalist

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