« (…) Using micro radio [pirate radio] to broadcast alternative music is just as necessary as it is for alternative politics, since most of what’s aired is utterly awful, overplayed, or both. (…) [people are] unaware that a hit song like Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” has been played almost ten thousand times in four years, and that’s on a single radio station. Those are the problems I’d like to fix. There’s a lot more music out there that deserves to be heard »

[in ’40 Watts From Nowhere – A Journey Into Pirate Radio’, Sue Carpenter]