You guys must have had some heavy import duties or something. I was buying $9/CD for the older releases and $19.99 for new releases. My parents gave me $20/week for lunch, and I'd skip lunch and save that money to buy a new CD at the end of the week. My parents were far from wealthy.

Once I got into electronic music, things did get a bit more expensive because of the damn "import" stickers coming out of Europe.