2000th CD Purchased

Twenty years ago, I bought my first CD player and CDs and to celebrate my birthday, I managed to time the 2000th purchase to coincide. 
 
I wanted to make it significant like 1000 was; Earthling from David Bowie which was released around his 50th birthday. 
 
There was much agonizing over it at Waterloo Records because nothing really major got released this week. So then I decided to go with something from the past I didn’t have but it had to be from 1981, 1986 or 1991 which were all milestone years for my music collection; 1981 won out since that’s when I became interested in listening to entire albums. Sadly (or fortunately), everything I really like is already in my possession, especially from 1981; Duran Duran’s debut, Human League, Kate Bush, Adam & the Ants, Damned, Pretenders, Little River Band, Police and Genesis. 

Then I remembered my Mom’s friend Carolyn always had cooler tastes (in many things) than my parents, especially with music she would let my brother and me borrow. Thus, the winnner was a re-mastered copy of Tatoo You which was a memorable loan. Its singles “Start Me Up,” and “Waiting on a Friend” were played to death practically everywhere in my section of the Midwest but they were good songs. Personally, I think Tatoo You is the last album the Rolling Stones actually expended any effort to record. From then on, they’ve been phoning it in with rather dull, uninspiring productions. If it weren’t for the lucrative money they make from touring, the Stones would’ve retired—which they should. 
 
That aside, Somara and I will be picking up my second shelf from the Bookcase Store on Saturday. This place makes really solid, all-pine CD shelves. Not those lame, weak particle-board models you get from Target. How I hate them, especially with how easily they bow when you have a full row of discs. Now I will have two units capable of storing 1100 regular-sized CDs a piece. At the rate my collection grows, I should have enough space to expand for a year.