Creativity Quote by Guy Picciotto

File sharing is framed here not as theft, but as infrastructure: a scrappy broadcast system for a culture that can’t count on mainstream transmitters. When Guy Picciotto calls it “our radio,” he’s tapping a very specific musician’s memory of how scenes used to spread - late-night college stations, mixtapes, zines, word-of-mouth. Radio wasn’t just a delivery mechanism; it was validation, community, and a shared calendar of what mattered. By swapping in file sharing, he’s arguing that the internet’s gray-market channels inherited that role for bands outside the promotional machine.

The intent is pragmatic, almost resigned: this is how people actually discover us, whether the industry likes it or not. The subtext carries a quiet rebuke of gatekeeping. If traditional radio and major-label marketing won’t make room for your music, audiences will route around the blockage. File sharing becomes less a moral question than a cultural workaround.

Context matters: Picciotto comes from punk and post-hardcore ecosystems built on DIY ethics and anti-corporate reflexes. Those scenes have long treated exposure as currency, sometimes more valuable than direct sales. The line also captures an early-2000s reality, when peer-to-peer networks were both a threat to old revenue models and a massive discovery engine. “Our” is doing heavy lifting: it draws a boundary between the mainstream and the marginal, and it claims a kind of legitimacy for informal distribution as the scene’s public airwaves.