Wait a minute, those nigggas selling burned CDs in the parking lot were making millions?

[Braman]

What years was this?

And what was your start up cost

How long it took to make a cd?

Yo fam serious question how old are you? No shade. You just ask the most seemingly basic questions

And I read your posts in Art of Dialogue voice.

 

[Capitol]

I remember when some trench coat wearing dude would come into the barbershop and for that split second, the whole world stopped and you didn't know what the fukk he was about to do, then those faithful words would ring out. "CDs DVDs. I got what you need" You would watch as an unfathomable amount of items spilled out from his coat like a waterfall. You take the DvDs home and it's blurry and people walking all through that shyt.

 

[BrothaZay]

Yo fam serious question how old are you? No shade. You just ask the most seemingly basic questions

And I read your posts in Art of Dialogue voice.

29

 

[Majestyx]

What years was this?

And what was your start up cost

i was most active doing it from 2000-2003. i was still doing it for myself in 2004 with xbox shyt. i had the french version of halo 2 like a month before it was posed to drop

 

[⠀X ⠀]

Back in the day, a lot of people were getting money in the street, by selling their own books and cds and what not.

They made a lot of by wholesaling to other street vendors. That used to be a big thing

 

[J-MIL]

I was the cd man in my high school from 00-04

Depending on what music released used to make $300 - $500 a week easy

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

Start up cost was nothing. I think a stack of blank CDs ran about $10. Made that back selling two CDs

And if you went to those computer shows/vendor shows you could buy a crazy amount of good quality blank cds for 30-40$, depending on how desperate the vendor was to get a sale.

I used to know a dude that used to sell them for 4/$20, and put them in the blank envelopes, there was a point where people just stopped caring about the album artwork

 

[BrothaZay]

Same here breh. I was selling burned CDs in the early 2000s and that shyt was easy money. And we didn’t even have the artwork. All we did was take a sharpie and write the name of the albums and mixtapes on the CDs

i was most active doing it from 2000-2003. i was still doing it for myself in 2004 with xbox shyt. i had the french version of halo 2 like a month before it was posed to drop

Back in the day, a lot of people were getting money in the street, by selling their own books and cds and what not.

They made a lot of by wholesaling to other street vendors. That used to be a big thing

I was the cd man in my high school from 00-04

Depending on what music released used to make $300 - $500 a week easy

I was born in the wrong era

I’m assuming almost all of these hustles and even variations of them are dried up by now

 

[BmoreGorilla]

I’m terrible with remembering things in years but one anchor memory is when Jay Z blueprint dropped. Remember it coming out early and everyone wanting it. Was already in it by then. I was early with having a CD burner installed in my computer. I believe my internal burner costed like 150-200 at that time. Then some of my people had a cd burning tower we used for bigger runs. Mainly I was just dealing with single burns though. I found a niche with older people who wanted classic R&B and soul stuff. Would just take orders directly for all the CDs they wanted or find stuff they’d be looking for.

Yea breh those were dope times. My boy had a CD burner and a hook up on the dark web so we were getting albums before they even dropped. And we got all the mixtapes. He don’t have a car so I would drive him to all the barbershops and post up and different gas stations. Plus I would sell CDs on campus. We would split all the profits. We also used to make music back then so we would slide our music into the sleeves we sold CDs in. So people basically got our music for free

 

[Solomon Lurke]

20 min.. Nero used to hold a breh down

run dual burners, 2 cd's at a time

burning cd's/dvds. addicted to porn nikkas would be the main DVD customers. then modding xboxes and burning xbox games.. if you was in a hood, and/or around a college, one could eat pretty decent

Legitimately forgot about the modded Xbox run too

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

I bought a version of Adobe Photoshop from a dude for $20, sh*t worked flawlessly back in like 2002

 

[Majestyx]

I was born in the wrong era

I’m assuming almost all of these hustles and even variations of them are dried up by now

yeah. music is streamed and porn is free.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

And if you went to those computer shows/vendor shows you could buy a crazy amount of good quality blank cds for 30-40$, depending on how desperate the vendor was to get a sale.

I used to know a dude that used to sell them for 4/$20, and put them in the blank envelopes, there was a point where people just stopped caring about the album artwork

That’s exactly how we packaged them

We would sell everything too. I clearly remember Bonecrusher’s album being one of the hottest things for like two weeks

 

[Solomon Lurke]

I was born in the wrong era

I’m assuming almost all of these hustles and even variations of them are dried up by now

There’s always something I guess but yea to me it dried up in the early Firestick era. I legit pulled in decent 5 figures on the side after finding a loophole on an online selling platform.

 

[BrothaZay]

yeah. music is streamed and porn is free.

What about the fire sticc
Thing ? Is that still a hustle ?