What do you expect for 50 cents a pack?

5 seconds sound clip from the Cruising movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:09:05 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- Registrar's office. Good morning.

- Yes, I'm trying to locate a student, Stuart Richards. He's in the department of Music and Speech.

- Is he enrolled in the summer session?

- Er... yes, I believe he is.

- Would you wait just a moment, please?

- Yes.

- Hold on. The last address I have on Stuart Richards it's 140 Claremont Ave., Morningside Heights.

- God, what is this? Sheep shit?

- What do you expect for 50 cents a pack?

- I didn't realize things were getting that rough.

- I think my old man's about to draw the line again. He turned me down on a car. He doesn't understand why I'd want a car to do research in a library that's right across the street from where I live.

- So what are you gonna do?

- Live within my meager means and continue my thesis on the roots of the American musical theater.

- All in the way of buying two more years before I have to go out in the world.

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