Now that I think about it, Hunger Strike was somehow the alternative/grunge song I remember hearing all the time on a station that mostly played music older than that.

The stations I listened to always played lots of new songs by old bands. That probably gave me a skewed perception as to which bands were actually still selling albums. I remember that they played a song from CSNY’s Looking Forward in heavy rotation for a while, but when I listened to the album 20 years later I was literally completely unable to recognize any of it.

I remember it being conspicuous that they did not play anything from Just Push Play, even though they played more obscure new stuff than that, and my friend said that he heard the DJs trashing the album.

“Class Rock” is indeed a really stupid term, but from as marketing perspective I understand why they didn’t got for a completely different term like “vintage rock.” I bet they felt stupid every time they said it.