Counterfeit records are like counterfeit money: They're designed to look like the real things in order to fool the consumer. Music fans tend to favour bootlegs because they offer material ...
Although the terms can be subjective, bootleg records are not to be confused with counterfeit ones, which are exact duplicates of previously released recordings meant to trick people into paying ...
In 1946 two enterprising music lovers in Leningrad, Ruslan Bugaslovski and Boris Taigin, figured out a way to copy records. The original music was smuggled into the country, often by sailors.