More than 20 years ago, a little movie called Pump Up The Volume hit theaters. Key to the plot is something that is now completely alien to anyone born the same year the film came out: a pirate radio station. The core of the story, though, is no less relate-able or important than it was then: a high school kid looking for answers, looking for acceptance, looking to be heard. The world was different then... Back before the Web hit it big at the end of the 90s, there was no easy way to be heard. Every now and then, someone would cobble together the equipment to pump out a few watts of broadcast power (against the law, mind you) and share some of their favorite music to whoever tuned in. Or, maybe, they'd hit the local copy shop and make a few dozen copies of a roughly put together magazine composed of original writings and some other stuff they'd … Continue reading →