When I was a teen, I remember going to the store any buying: madona cd, 2 garbage singles, a garbage album and something else. Cost: over 100 bucks. I plunked down the money and went home and listened to my stuff. Spent a whole two weeks earnings on that and had a few cd's. I felt like a chump after that. Swear to god, I never bought another song after that. I learned my lesson in 1996. Before CD players were affordabe, I used to just record songs off the radio on my dual casette boom box. I do the same thing today though it's satellite radio and instead of a boom box, it's a pc.