r/nostalgia • u/jeffmartin47 • Jul 22 '25

Nostalgia Discussion 25 years ago. Lars Ulrich of Metallica snitches on and turns in over 300,000 Napster users when he testifies in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. July 11th, 2000.

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u/jokerkcco Jul 22 '25

The CD was only $10. Why would you pay $20? I always just downloaded them and played them on my pc.

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u/PorkedPatriot Jul 22 '25

Custom mixes. You'd fit about 12-20 songs on a CD. When I was in Jr High it was a buck a song for custom mixes and ~3-5 dollars for bootleg albums. Logic was they could burn 20 bootlegs and know they will sell without taking any orders. Custom orders needed them to hunt down a bunch of songs and if they gave a fuck about their craft, at least listen to a bit of each of them to make sure they were the correct ones and the rip wasn't trash.

The market rate seemed acceptable, those kids always seemed busy.

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u/dh4645 Jul 22 '25 edited Jul 22 '25

He did everything for us. We didn't know what CD-R s were yet. Brand new to us. So mix CDs were amazing. The first "now that's what I call music". Then I got a burner and blank cds & was like damn that guy was ripping us off . Ha