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Wasn't 1999 the peak of the price gouging from the record labels? It was like $20-25 for a new album for a ton of the major record labels from what I remember.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_price_fixing
My budget for CDs maxed out at $16. After that, I had to moved to Napster.
I'm pretty sure I owe my career in computers to the high seas. Napster led to irc, which led to the endless rabbit hole of many a sleepless night in the chat rooms of the 90s.