Oct 27, 2026 · 9 min · 6 segments
Wanna hear something weird about forbidden music in the Soviet Union? In this classic Weird Tech, Spooktober continues with Tegan telling Rae a Cold War story about records being bootlegged on…
Tegan JonesHost
Rae JohnstonHost
So really tense standoff between the Soviet Union and the West in general, but particularly the USA.
And so basically the Soviet government was super obsessed with controlling everything citizens would see, hear, think, particularly when it came to their consumption of Western culture.
And so this is how there ended up being the rise of something that is sometimes called bone music.
So really tense standoff between the Soviet Union and the West in general, but particularly the USA.
And so basically the Soviet government was super obsessed with controlling everything citizens would see, hear, think, particularly when it came to their consumption of Western culture.
And so this is how there ended up being the rise of something that is sometimes called bone music.
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