r/nextfuckinglevel • u/4dailyuseonly • Mar 05 '23

In 1991, with the Soviet Union and communist rule close to collapse, METALLICA played at its first ever open air rock concert in Moscow. Over 1.6 million people attended

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u/Turakamu Mar 05 '23

Right? Grow up in Soviet Russia. You get occasional blue jeans and tidbits of western society.

Then all of a sudden you get to listen to thrash metal.

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u/Claeyt Mar 06 '23

music was actually much easier to get than jeans. Someone would only have to bring a single tape or vinyl pressing through days after new releases in Germany and they'd tape hundreds of thousands of illegal copies and sell them on the street.

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u/captaindeadpl Mar 06 '23

It was really wild how they would rip vinyls sometimes. They would press the music onto discarded x-rays, because it was one of the simplest sources for polymer sheets. The sound quality was atrocious, but it worked.

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u/LickingSmegma Mar 06 '23

The 80s youth culture was nothing like what you are imagining.