goddammit I need to buy a decent turntable SOON! I still haven't played my Zooropa LP I've had it like 2 years now, went nuts when I found it, took ages looking through all sorts of record shops. Good to know it really is better than the CD
Ha! You gotta go for it.
Zooropa was actually the one where I sat the fence for a long time. See, my parents didn't buy us a CD player until 1993, so even when I got
Achtung Baby, they ordered it for my birthday from a record shop in Philadelphia, and got it imported on LP. I had previously frayed the cassette tape, which, for
AB, you could find in K-Mart or really anywhere.
But with
Zooropa, I bought the CD the day it came out. Unfortunately, during 1992, I went to the great length of buying every U2 album before
AB, as they quickly became my favorite band. Had never heard much of their material before
AB. So I had everything on vinyl,
Boy to
AB. Then, when
Zooropa came out, DJ culture was thriving, and lots of people were buying vinyl. But not so with rock music. Vinyl seriously almost went extinct in pop and rock releases around 1993. I remember the buyer at Repo Records, near Villanova University, told me that
Zooropa could be ordered on LP, but it was expensive, because they had to get it from Brazil or Korea or something like that. For a 16 year old kid, it was out of my price-range. I waited until I was out of the house and earning my own income to get it on LP, as well as Passengers and
Pop.
But that's my personal history, as if anyone cares. Now I'm such a freak, I have most on both CD and LP, except the first two albums they released in the 2000s. Not interested in those at all. Bought
Atom Bomb on LP only and never listen to it. So glad this new one moved me, personally.