Yeah, you had to be there. The earliest thing I remember hearing when it came out from them was Joshua Tree, but then in order to stay relevant, they basically reinvented themselves as 'the biggest rock stars in the world' with Achtung Baby and Zooropa, Bono being Biggest Rock Star of Them All.

Achtung Baby was actually the first album I remember being released on CD in a Digipak case. Fuck those things, they were garbage.

That said, U2 were actually smart in that they figured out early that mp3 and streaming would eventually take over and worked it into their contracts in the mid 90s which is pretty forward thinking.

Yeah, you had to be there. The earliest thing I remember hearing when it came out from them was Joshua Tree, but then in order to stay relevant, they basically reinvented themselves as 'the biggest rock stars in the world' with Achtung Baby and Zooropa, Bono being Biggest Rock Star of Them All.

Achtung Baby was actually the first album I remember being released on CD in a Digipak case. Fuck those things, they were garbage.