We also had two $5 CD hustlers in my high school in the Napster days. I can attest - The demand was insane. Retail price was really high and $5 seemed to be the sweet spot of affordability.
I remember someone back in the pre-napster days when CD writers were thousands of dollars. They were selling "The Best of Bill" on CD for $15 a pop: it had Windows 95, Visual Basic, Word etc, Visual C++...
I was one of those hustlers from 2000-2002. I was in a junior high with only 90 students, and I was the first with a CD burner. It was best when a clique of girls would come up and ask for the exact same songs, $5/ea...easiest $15 ever. I don't remember who eventually took over supplying the masses, but I was honestly sick of doing it by the time they did.
