Doing a quick bit of maths for you, saying roughly 60 million Brits are in the UK, 1,200,000 bought HTDAAB, thats 1/50. So with 80,000 on the Isle of Man, there should be about 1,600 U2 fans around!
Forgive me for being nosey but I noticed your prized U2 possession was a free CD with the Sunday Times? This wouldn't happen to be the one with Ground Beneath Her Feet on it? As that was the CD that got me and my brothers into U2 in the first place
Yes it is. Same sort of situation for me. I remember playing the Beautiful Day vid on some crappy old computer my brother had found. That and Elevation on my Now 49 cassette. I dont know why, but I just decided to buy ATYCLB, which was weird cos I didnt buy albums, I only ever got compilations like the Now tapes. I was actually really embarassed buying it.
I still listen to the live I Will Follow off there a lot.