― Neudonym, Sunday, 16 February 2003 06:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Sunday, 16 February 2003 06:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ess Kay (esskay), Sunday, 16 February 2003 07:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
I got my first CD player in 1987 for $250. A Yamaha component that finally had a belt go limp, and when I could find a replacement I got a Sony portable.
― nickn (nickn), Sunday, 16 February 2003 07:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Sunday, 16 February 2003 07:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickn (nickn), Sunday, 16 February 2003 07:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
Peter Cetera - Solitude/SolitaireHuey Lewis and the News - Fore!Kool and the Gang - Greatest HitsGeorge Strait - Greatest Hits (vol. 1)Kool Moe Dee - How Ya Like Me NowBilly Ocean - Suddenly
and six other albums that were comparitively very bad. But those were the ones that I listened to over and over and over. I have no idea if this explains anything about my current tastes or not.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 16 February 2003 07:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
Not really sure about the 8-track and cassette, though.
― Arthur (Arthur), Sunday, 16 February 2003 07:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Sunday, 16 February 2003 07:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
1)first cassingle: 'chain reaction' by john farnham2)first tape: 'honeychild' by jenny morrisson3)first cd: 'august and everything after' by counting crows
what the hell was i doing buying all this music i didn't like? 1)dunno 2)the lead single from it was #1 on the charts at the time and everyone at school used to sing it 3) to please my auntie because she provided the cash for it. the music i really liked was naughty and had swearing in it (eg. u2 "don't let the bastards grind you down) or 'bad thoughts'. i thought she would like it because david letterman did.
― minna (minna), Sunday, 16 February 2003 07:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 16 February 2003 08:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
first tape: Please Hammer don't hurt em
― TB, Sunday, 16 February 2003 08:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― george gosset (gegoss), Sunday, 16 February 2003 08:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
First CD I called my own, though my dad bought it. Donald Fagen, Kamakiriad.I was a weird kid.
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 16 February 2003 10:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 16 February 2003 11:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
(last records bought (ordered, actually): Daft Punk's Homework and Discovery--thanx to y'all out there)
― J. Sot (J. Sot), Sunday, 16 February 2003 12:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paul R (paul R), Sunday, 16 February 2003 14:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Sunday, 16 February 2003 14:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
can't remember my first cd or vinyl (i don't have much vinyl anyway).
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Sunday, 16 February 2003 15:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
Cassette: Guns 'n' Roses, G'n'R Lies
CD: Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (in 1989, bought the same day I got my first CD player)
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 16 February 2003 15:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Michael B, Sunday, 16 February 2003 15:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
Wait, I'm wrong about this. I was buying cassettes before 1989. I remember buying tapes at the big Ames (was it Ames?) superstore on the way upstate when I went to visit my brother at his group home. I was into metal then, and I bought whatever I thought was cool on Headbanger's Ball.
In 1988, bought on the same day: Metallica's Master of Puppets and Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation (which I learned about from a metal magazine)(!).
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 16 February 2003 15:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ernest P. (ernestp), Sunday, 16 February 2003 15:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 16 February 2003 15:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 16 February 2003 16:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― naked as sin (naked as sin), Sunday, 16 February 2003 16:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
First CDs - Peter Gabriel's _So_ and Kate Bush - _The Hounds of Love_ back when twenty-two bucks was an unimaginable amount to spend on a single LP worth of material.
First single would probably have to be World Destruction _Time Zone_, but i didn't call anything a single if it was bigger than 7" wide.
The only time i've ever bought a recorded cassette was when friends and i were on a roadtrip through Australia and our stash of tapes had gotten stale. Bought a Split Enz greatest hits and Talking Heads _Naked_. This was the summer of 1990. Gas went up to 1.65 a litre!
― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Sunday, 16 February 2003 16:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― JoB (JoB), Sunday, 16 February 2003 17:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
The first compact disc I bought (in `89 or so, after forsaking my turntable) was CHIPS FROM THE CHOCOLATE FIREBALL by the Dukes of Stratosphear (ala XTC).
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 16 February 2003 17:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
Sorry, I'm only on the first cup of coffee. That should've read:
Like I said, the first album I ever spent....
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 16 February 2003 17:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
Ooh, could you imagine Chipmunks From the Chocolate Fireball??
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 16 February 2003 17:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 16 February 2003 17:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Sunday, 16 February 2003 17:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Hayden (Hayden), Sunday, 16 February 2003 19:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Sunday, 16 February 2003 22:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Rob Bolton, Sunday, 16 February 2003 23:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 16 February 2003 23:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― di smith (lucylurex), Monday, 17 February 2003 00:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
I lucked out on this one. My mom won a raffle and the prize was an RCA CD player. It was my stereo CD player up until around mid 2000 when the motor went out. It took a beating and I would love to know exactly how many hours of music it actually played.
― earlnash, Monday, 17 February 2003 00:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
first 8 track tape with own money: Foreigner - s/t (Atlantic, 1977)
first cassette tape with own money: Billy Squier - "Don't Say No" (Capitol, 1981)
first CD with own cash: the Cure - "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me" (Elektra, 1987)
― dandy don weiner, Monday, 17 February 2003 01:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mean Guy, Monday, 17 February 2003 01:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.ukcollectibles.co.uk/Images/now7tapeb.jpg
No regrets...
― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 17 February 2003 04:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― piscesboy, Monday, 17 February 2003 13:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
My first LP was 'The Very Best of David Bowie' with my Xmas money in 1980.
First 7" was 'What you're proposing' by Status Quo.
― James Ball (James Ball), Monday, 17 February 2003 14:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
First CD: 'Kill Uncle'.
― Rayas Blancas, Monday, 17 February 2003 14:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― willem (willem), Monday, 17 February 2003 14:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin (robin), Monday, 17 February 2003 15:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― matt riedl (veal), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
first cassette - ABBA “Greatest Hits” ca 1976first LP - Cold Chisel “Circus Animals”, returned to the store for “Hitwave ‘82”first CD - The Cure “The Top” from a cutout bin around 1987
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 25 July 2021 07:48 (two years ago) link
First CD - First CD I can remember going to the counter and purchasing in some sort of a music store (possibly with gift money of some sort?) was a collection of music from The Disney Afternoon at the age of 8. Though before that there were a few instances in which my parents were buying CDs from Columbia House during some sort of sale and would ask me if I wanted anything, and I got Michael Jackson's Bad, Dangerous, and maybe a few Disney soundtracks out of that.
First Cassette - Didn't buy a lot of cassettes for myself. Mostly used blank cassettes for making mix tapes or fake radio stations. The only cassette I can remember buying was from a local musical/sketch comedy group called The Backscratch Brothers which I bought at age 10.
First LP - Didn't start buying vinyl records till my mid 20s. Picked up a few random albums at thrift stores and garage sales around the time I got my first record player and those included Percy Sledge's Greatest Hits and a Collection of German Beer Drinking Music. First LP I picked up that wasn't used was a reissue of Pixies' Doolittle.
― MarkoP, Sunday, 25 July 2021 14:52 (two years ago) link
first LP: Born in the USA, sometime in 1984
first cassette: License to Ill, very late 1986/early 1987, right after I saw the video for the first time
first CD: Physical Graffiti, in late 1990 because a friend accidentally ordered it from Columbia House so I bought it off him for like ten bucks. I didn't have a CD player yet but was saving up for one.
― joygoat, Sunday, 25 July 2021 15:27 (two years ago) link
Purple Rain and Raising Hell were the first tapes I bought, then after my Mom heard them she took them away.
― JacobSanders, Sunday, 25 July 2021 15:35 (two years ago) link
jeez Mom
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 July 2021 16:19 (two years ago) link
please hammer don't hurt em
― brimstead, Sunday, 25 July 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
Lol my mom bought me that one
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Sunday, 25 July 2021 21:38 (two years ago) link
Can only recall first CD, Hammer's too legit to quit, which was a pissoff when i discovered the tape had 4 or 5 extra songs including the Addams Family song!!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Sunday, 25 July 2021 22:19 (two years ago) link
I'll take a stab at this.
first 7" single: "I Was Made For Dancin'" by Leif Garrett ('78/'79)
first LP: Eat to the Beat by Blondie, or possibly Some Girls by The Rolling Stones ('79). I *thought* that the Some Girls I bought was the controversial original version with celebrities on the cover, but upon further investigation I think I had the 2nd version with the celebrities removed.
first cassette: this is difficult to say... it would've been '80/'81... maybe Emotional Rescue by the Stones. I remember being conflicted in '80-'83 about whether to buy vinyl or cassettes. What tipped it toward cassettes was acquiring a Walkman, plus the fact that many cassettes came with bonus tracks in those days.
first 12" single: "Diamond Girl" by Nice & Wild ('86). I also had "Into the Groove" by Madonna which was '85 but I must have bought that later bc I'm p sure "Diamond Girl" was first.
first CD: I bought my first batch of CDs in early '87, among them Hatful of Hollow by The Smiths, Street Life - 20 Greatest Hits by Roxy Music (both UK imports), and A Date with Elvis by The Cramps. In hindsight The Cramps seems like an odd choice w/which to explore the exciting new world of digital clarity, but what can I say. Once I started with CDs I never again bought a prerecorded cassette, unless it was a self-produced cassette by a local band or something. But 2nd hand vinyl was abundant and cheap in the late '80s/early '90s so that's when I loaded up on old vinyl from the '60s onward.
first 3" CD: "Balloon Man" by Robyn Hitchcock ('88). Tbh the only other thing I remember owning in this format is "Little Jackie Wants to Be a Star" by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam ('89), which I still have.
― Josefa, Monday, 26 July 2021 00:20 (two years ago) link
Josefa, we woulda hung out spinning records in the 80s. I still have that Robyn 3" CD!
My teenage boys answers to these questions: "BUY music?"
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 26 July 2021 01:23 (two years ago) link
Oh wow! I lost my “Balloon Man” somewhere along the line. I had high hopes for the 3” CD single format but it fizzled out as quickly as it appeared. I don’t even have the necessary adaptor to play my Lisa Lisa one anymore.
― Josefa, Monday, 26 July 2021 01:35 (two years ago) link
TMNT soundtrack
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 July 2021 01:50 (two years ago) link
My first CD3 was this:https://img.discogs.com/B4FtYiTlNOES2xTytgerNsoFik8=/fit-in/600x586/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1851158-1295114039.jpeg.jpgI owe to it the mindblowing discovery that Peter Gabriel had been a member of Genesis! I also eventually bought all the parent albums represented, over the course of about fifteen years.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Monday, 26 July 2021 02:35 (two years ago) link
Pretty sure it was this bad boy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europop_(album)
― treeship., Monday, 26 July 2021 02:36 (two years ago) link