I can't believe that The Fragile is 23 years old today. I have vivid memories of the entire period leading up to the release and in many ways, it doesn't feel like it's been THAT long, though I was in high school at the time and high school feels like a previous lifetime. Also, Broken turns 30 tomorrow, which seems crazy. I wasn't a fan that early, though – I think I bought Broken in summer of 1998. I remember riding my bike to my town's Wal-Mart and buying Pretty Hate Machine, Broken, and Further Down the Spiral at the same time. I absolutely loved Closer when I discovered it in '95, but I didn't buy a NIN CD until I picked up The Perfect Drug single (I made sure to get the 6-track import version that included the original studio version) in '97 and I got The Downward Spiral as a Christmas present later that year. Then my obsession really began and I started to just buy every CD I could find (singles, imports, bootlegs) at Best Buy, Sam Goody, Media Play, etc.