I'd love to live in the US, you huys got some damn cheap manga! Back here in Sweden we pay about 110 SEK ($18.5) for one english translated volume in our local manga bookstore.
One funny thing is that it's the english translated manga sells better than the swedish translated, even tough the swedish ones are usually pretty cheap ('bout $9).
Anyhow, most of us pays 18 bucks to get one volume, and that's expensive!