Word: habitu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weekend evening, the park is crowded with record buyers, traders and tape pirates, who carry a list of merchandise and escort a customer to a private apartment where money and merchandise change hands. The result of this underhanded commerce is a surprisingly timely taste for Western trends. One habitué of the park recently boasted of owning "two Sex Pistols records and an Ian Dury." Another effect is more striking: tolerance-unofficial, of course-of the record deals, and an attempt to give Soviet pop some Western-style spin...