In my band days, we had a half hour slot on my then local radio station. It was called GWR then, but I think is called something else now. The evening show did a feature on a local band each week, so we managed to get on it one week to plug a 3 track EP that we had just released independently.(Was supposed to have been 4 tracks but ran out of studio time to mix the 4th and couldn't afford any more !). They played all three tracks and filled the rest of the time with band interview & chit-chat. It seemed very cool to the 19 yr old me.
Funny thing was, I worked in a factory at the time that had the same radio station playing in the background all the time and a couple of weeks later I was walking around doing what I was there to do and I heard the DJ introduce this "new" tune that he had taken a liking to after being given it by one of the other DJ's to listen to. It started playing and seemed somehow familiar, but I couldn't quite bring to mind why it seeing as it was supposed to be new and figured that it must be one of those that just remind you of something else..then.....D'oh ! I'd lived and breathed the bloody thing for months, but it took me until the chorus kicked for the penny to drop ! The singer also worked there and nobody would believe it was us on the radio until the next time it was on and he had to sing along to prove it was really him.
I heard it quite a few times over the following weeks at various times, and in the factory the various old (to me) women who worked there took great delight in singing along (read murdering it) once it became known around the factory floor that it was by "our" band. It was quite amusing to see/hear and I did feel just a little bit famous for a little while.
The EP sold enough to recover all the costs and anything over that got spent on tarting up our rehearsal room as it wasn't really worth divvying up 5 ways.