• pikmeir@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is literally the 80s version of holding up your phone to record a video of a music concert.

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      1 year ago

      The difference is in Poland in the 80s it was hard and expensive to buy music so it might be the only option for them to get it.

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        Yeah, and you can tell just by the look on his face that this is serious business. He’s just got to hope nothing going wrong while it’s recording. I’d be so nervous about something breaking in the machine!

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          Or some guy walking up to him “HEY BUDDY, GOT A CIGERETTE I COULD BORROW???” “DAMMIT ASSHOLE!!! GET OUT OF HERE!!!”

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      In communist Poland some things you could only hear and record live, because that was harder for censors to stop. Even then there were censors backstage crossing out forbidden lyrics from the sets. However they would often get ignored as an act of defiance, especially at punk rock concerts.

      But there was no way to officialy distribute these kinds of materials and doing so could land you in jail.

      So unless you had some kind of underground source, your best bet would be to go to a concert and record it.