Maybe some or all of the books you needed couldn't be pirated

idk, but yeah photoshop could've been pirated for sure.
Sometimes there are cheaper options for books anyway, like used (as long as they're the correct editions). Obviously sometimes books will be expensive but you weren't studying medicine or anything like that were you? I think the books for the Business Admin degree I started (but dropped out) a couple of years ago were only a couple hundred Australian dollars or so...and I already had MS Office
