it's polyphonic!

Cool kids would compose their own monophonic ringtones with the built–in composer utility.

Linkin Park - Numb
Darude - Sandstorm
Metallica - Enter the Sandman
Safri Duo - Played a Live

The 99c ringtone I purchased was Candy Shop by 50 cent. It wasn't even an MP3, it was a polyphonic version.

I lost the phone not long after.

The 99c ringtone I purchased was Candy Shop by 50 cent.
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- True, I normally have violent, physical reactions to other people's taste in music.
- What? You don't want to lick the lollipop?
Was it a Nokia 3200? I swear that was the phone for polyphonic ringtones.
- Loads of them had it.
  Source: made games for ol' phones back in the day.
- It was definitely a Nokia. You were mad to use anything else back in the day, although I did move to Windows Mobile before the iPhone and then Android were released.

The worst were those scam ringtone subscriptions that were hard to cancel.

I didn't buy any ringtones but I did buy and finish mega man 2 on my razr.

I never did it though

I grew up in the mp3 era, like fuck I was going to pay actual money for my phone to play a short sound clip when I got a call.
Instead I spent money to get a USB to whatever proprietary connector the phone had (that was specific to that phone), found a converter that would do wav -> whatever weird format ringtones needed to be in, figured out where in the filesystem that file needed to be, and then I had my FF7 battle music ring tone.
And these days, despite it being a lot easier, I just haven't bothered setting a custom ringtone. Where did I use to find the time to care about that shit?

I think I bought like one that I used for years. 2 max.