I never knew you could get acoustic guitars for 1000 or less?
Anyways, I would recommend starting off with Acoustic. Then as you learn, you will have some area of interest. If you keep with strumming and plugins, you'll stay with acoustic and it will do good. If you think of lead, then you should move on, as learning lead on acoustic is not good, maybe destructive. All this will come after you learn the basics.
What you should do is you should listen to songs of the genre you are interested in. And try humming tunes along with the songs. You should not leave listening to songs ever if you are to learn guitar well. Thats for developing an understanding of scales, octaves, etc. Basically it will supplement and strengthen whatever you learn on the guitar.
And after you've learnt a bit, grab opportunity of stage performance as soon as you get it, very crucial.
Maybe I'm going too far but I am a budding guitarist as well, and I was excited.
