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What's interesting, 1980s was the heyday of Russian Rock tape albums. Soviet government did actually go after artists for doing live concerts (on the grounds o
by thriftwy 3y ago
What's interesting, 1980s was the heyday of Russian Rock tape albums.
Soviet government did actually go after artists for doing live concerts (on the grounds of illegal enterpreneurship†), but not after tape recording stuff. You could duplicate as many tape albums as you wished in specialized tape copying booths, as well as at home if you had the hardware.
† You are probably wondering whether there was "legal" enterpreneurship option in the late USSR. Basically, nope, not before Perestroika kicked in.
- citrin_ru 3y agoEven before cassette tapes become available people in USSR recorded and copied music at home using reel-to-reel tapes. LP vinyl record was the most produced media back then but it was state controlled - even is some music was not outright censored it was not published in large enough numbers if state official though massed should not listen a particular music genre or a record. I wonder of people outside soviet block copied musing at home using reel-to-reel tapes (in non negligible numbers)?