found a midas and decided to go in and ask their opinion..
first people to actually take me seriously. They say sure NP lets go for a ride, so one mechanic who ends up being a brake expert for the past 13 years says "definately the back brakes.."
We go back, he offers to take my drums apart for free to see what the problem is and then I can decide what I want to do.. fine, lets do it..
Takes of one side, just a lot of dust in the drum, bearings look good, could use some work tho, but def. not the squeek.
Go to other side... hmm.. The drum wont come off, should just slip off.. after some banging and shit it comes off.. the seal that is supposed to be attached to the one side came off and was eating away at the other side.. basically that squeeking was the metal being eaten away everytime I pressed the brakes. It was really bad, like the bolt heads were half chewed off. He said it's lucky I came in now to do this because potentially if it ate all the way thru it could have knocked my wheel off.
Anyway the bearings were in good condition too but whoever serviced them last did a SHIT ASS JOB because he had to remachine some shit inside there to have the bearing sit right and stuff.. anyway long story short it took him 3 hours and a lot of labour, and they only charged me 1 hour labour for the entire job ($88 total). He showed me how to keep the brake dust out by washing my rims which were filthy from the brake dust, which also added to the squeek
He cleaned everythign inside and put new grease in and it looks like new after he's done...
So I got a great deal and no more squeek. The pads are shit, no doubt, so the last owner was a moron.
Go Midas! Who knew they'd be the cheapest and most honest.