Whelp now I gotta listen to both again so I can send my mind back to the early aughts and remember having to save money for months then wait till we could get to a big enough city that sold music!
No. No you absolutely did not spend that much on a single. Surely?! I'm not American but singles couldn't cost that much then. Maybe your mum told you in her explanation how much an album cost and you conflated the figures over time?
My memories are fuzzy here but I'm genuinely not sure. Pretty sure I paid for it with a $20 bill but I haven't been able to find contemporaneous price listings for it. Either way, it still felt like way too much for effectively one song
In England, singles would be about 3 or 4 quid, sometimes 99p if the label felt like pushing it... Plus you'd sometimes get 7 or 8 tracks, what with b sides (even on CDs). Years later prices climbed as sales fell. Maybe you bought an import? Which is pretty deranged, even for a 10yr old, so so sorry
I think realistically, whatever the actual cost was, I basically paid full CD price for a single because they knew that was the only song off that album that anyone in the US cared about
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Also, Japanese CD Singles are a lot of fun!
At the very least, you'd get to experience their song "My Console"