your reply rings true... yesterday on the drive home I called the "flagship classic rock station" in town, with "the largest collection of classic rock" and requested Sister Anne, by the MC5... the conversation went something like this:
me: can you play and MC5 song for me?
dj: how old are you?
me: 24
dj: and you like the MC5?
me: yeah, a lot... they rock
dj: we don't play them, they don't fit our format... how old are you again?
me: 24... what do you mean they don't fit your format?
dj: well we suck, ok? you wanna hear something else?
me: yeah how about "gimme danger" by the stooges?
dj: *click* *bzzzzzzzzzz*
me: what the $^#&*?!?!?!?!