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Known as "wyatting" about 15 years ago in the UK, in honor of Robert Wyatt, when they installed the first digital jukeboxes with millions of unskippable songs, some used the opportunity to select the densest, most obnoxious material, which obviously included Mr. Wyatt's most obtuse pieces... and boy did he have some doozies.
At some pub after a runway show, where designers and models were partying it up, some bloke selected the entirety of Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music". The party dissolved pretty soon after the "tunes" started.
Cultural guerrilla vandalism at its' finest.
I would have just played Warm Leatherette a dozen times.