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Not everyone wants to pay tons of money for something. If you're just a hobby programmer, and just want to mess around with code, I say use the express versions. Unless you want to pirate VS2005.
/me shrugs
The express versions of Visual Studio 2005 are cut down versions for hobby programmers, who don't need some of the things in Visual Studio. Microsoft also give them away free.