Happy birthday, CDs!

Who else feels old knowing that the first CD (Billy Joel's "52nd Street") was commercially released 30 years ago today?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2012/10/01/162062347/the-cd-at-30-is-feeling-its-age

If memory serves, the first CD I ever bought was the "Use Your Illusion" set, back when they came in those big packages:

 

And they are already obsolete.

 

First three CDs I bought:

Pearl Jam's "Ten"
Violent Femmes Greatest Hits
Spin Doctors "Pocket Full of Kryptonite" (embarrassing)

 

First three:

1. Vs.
2. Blind Melon
3. Judgment Night soundtrack

 

First three:

1. Appetite for Destruction
2. Best of the Doors
3. Rocky III soundtrack

 

You're right. It's a fine record if you just ignore "Two Princes." Actually has some decent tracks aside from that one.

 

R.E.M. "Automatic for the People"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "What Hits"
Metallica's Black Album

 

Like other things, anything beyond my first from that long ago is a little fuzzy in my memory.

Mine was U2 - Rattle and Hum

 

My first was Big Audio Dynamite's "No. 10 Upping Street." I had "52nd Street" on 8-track!

 

Mine was Peter Gabriel's "Security."

 

First two:

1. Red Hot Chili Peppers "BloodSugarSexMagik"
1(a). Queen's Greatest Hits

 

First one I saw was The Joshua Tree in 1987 which was a prize in a promotion the music mag I was working for was running. Didn't know anyone with a CD player and all the review copies we got of albums were vinyl. Pretty sure the first one I bought was The Clash's debut.

Anyone looking for more info on the history of the CD is urged to check out Appetite for Self-Destruction by Steve Knopper which traces its development. Can't recall if it explains why they cost so fucking much when to buy when the production costs were a fraction of what it cost to make a vinyl album.