My sometimes Irish Idee Fixe

As I stood in line at the Best Buy here in Augusta to dutifully buy the latest U2 album I got to thinking back over some of the other times and places I picked up one of their records. Here are the ones I could remember in chronological order:
1) The Joshua Tree purchased at the Idyllwild Pharmacy in Idyllwild, California. Trent McGath
played this album devotionally all summer and when he left to go back to Twin Peaks I
realized I was hooked.
2) Achtung Baby purchased at the Ben Franklin in Fair Haven, Vermont. This is still the single
record of transportation for me - and to think - I almost spent the $7.99 on licorice and such.
3) Zooropa purchased somewhere in the bleak and blighted north end of Pittsfield,
Massachussetts -probably the K-Mart. I can't hear the title track or Stay (Faraway, so
Close!) without thinking of BICS.
4) Pop purchased at the Wal-Mart in Toccoa, Georgia. I can't say if that was the first time I
felt old or the first time I realized I was already too old; but listening to
Miami in my dorm room I knew the spell was broken
5) All That You Can't Leave Behind purchased in Augusta. I always think of my time in
Wenham, South Hamilton, and Benson when I here this one. Listening to Walk On with
white knuckles as I steered the Caprice home to Benson after guarding the College of St.
Joseph's against itself all night as the snow piled up.
6) How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb purchased at the Target on Southern in Tempe,
Arizona. I always think of my drives across the Sonoran desert to visit Josh, Sarah, and
the Tates in California when I hear this album.

I know I bought other albums; but can't say where or when. I'm certainly not the biggest U2 fan in the world or even the family but they've provided a pretty cool soundtrack for several passages in my life. What images will be jogged when I hear a few notes from No Line On the Horizon?