Nah I was never pumped up for school and I never owned a boombox, others had it. By the time I graduated high school it was a war on the bus with two or three boomboxes, hard rock vs hip hop, I lived in a racially mixed community and that was reality, music wise.. Driver had to stop the bus to shut them up once but never stopped..
Sounds like that movie death wish with the boom box wars.. so you didn't like riding the bus?.. the bus driver had no control..