Apparently on this day in 1986 it became legal in the Soviet Union to buy a Beatles record. That factoid reminds me of the absolute bananas PBS doc I watched 12 years ago, How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin. Learning the lengths people had to go to in order to listen to Beatles recordings as rightfully flabbergasted me:
9:14pm: the bit about bootlegs being made by recording Beatles songs off Radio Luxemburg and then cutting the recording onto a used x-ray, rolling it up a coat sleeve and selling it is pretty amazing. Brilliant.
I mean these days if it take more than zero seconds to have every single song by every single artist I want then I flip my goddam laptop over in a frenzy of anger.
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