Sorry if this is a little late but have been out of town.  I am not sure what my first cd was.  I had over a hundred before I ever bought a player.  I would never had made the jump had my collection of vinyl not been destroyed by fire.  I worked at sound exchange in both Austin and Houstion during the late 80s and early 90s.  I think many of the early stuff was trendy college stuff (chili pepers, pixies etal) and punk.  It was surprising how often we would get extra cds in the deliveries.  We could not return them because there was no record so we were allowed to keep them.  The fellow store rats drifted toward the "cool" stuff (at the time) so  I went for all the stuff no one else wanted.. .zorn, sun ra, spoken word by bukowski, la vey, etal.  grey area stuff with no contact label and classical.  What I would do to be back there......

I think my collection is between 3 and 4 thousand.  CDs are everywhere although seperated by "style" (what ever that means).  I am out of space due to philosophy books and cds (I won't mention dvds).  Now I have this collection (not part of my counted legit cds) of burned cds (bill hicks downloads, 365 music downloads)  I am not even counting those.  I now average 3 cds a week  due mostly to time constraints.  I want to be able to truly listen to something rather than just add it to the piles.  Although if I  make a stop somewhere that has a good stores then I stock up (mostly Austin rip 33 degrees and Sound Exchange although San Francisco is always good to me at Subterranean(.org for those buying on line but bad search engine).

I should sell some but can not part with many.  Has to have at least two "songs" that I like but even that rule is static,