Whilst the number of recorded pirate radio stations was in the hundreds, only a few have been notable enough to be remembered.

Australia's only recorded pirate, Black Jack Anderson, frequented the archipelago in the 1830s.

With the fake weather sounds, the fierce recorded pirate yells, and the canned singing, the Black Vulture put-put-putted out into Pirates Cove.

The industry, worried that DAT would enable recording pirates to make perfect copies of compact disks, worked out an electronic protection plan that satisfied neither consumers nor manufacturers.