What Was The First Album/Cd You Purchased For Yourself?

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first cassete was Queens Greatest hits when i was 13. I think the first CD was Public Enemy "It takes a nation of millions"

― Michael B, Sunday, 16 February 2003 15:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Cassette: Guns 'n' Roses, G'n'R Lies

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

Vinyl: I went halfsies with my sister on Duran Duran's Rio.
Cassette: Cupid & Psyche '85 by Scritti Politti
CD: Substance by New Order

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Sunday, 16 February 2003 15:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

It wasn't Ames, it was Jamesway.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 16 February 2003 15:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Googling for "Jamesway" I found this.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 16 February 2003 16:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

cassette: hits blitz compilation
CD: Roll With It single.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Sunday, 16 February 2003 16:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

First LPs - Electric Light Orchestra _Face the Music_ and the Doors _13_ (best of). Geez, this was probably 1981, mebbe 1980. Guess that says a lot, huh?

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

Cupid & Psyche 85 - Scritti Politti. I was fourteen.

― JoB (JoB), Sunday, 16 February 2003 17:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Like I said, the first I event spent my own (allowance) money on was DRESSED TO KILL by Kiss on a big, fat vinyl platter in `75 or `76 or so. The first single I got, I believe, was "Run Like Hell"/"Empty Spaces" by Pink Floyd in `79/`80. My older sister brought most of the music home, and had some decent taste for a little while (she'd procured albums by Queen, Parliament, Brass Construction, the B-52's, Blondie and the Police). My dad lived in England for a bit, and after befriending someone from Epic/CBS records, sent us home a crate of new vinyl, including the first albums by the Clash, the Vibrators and...er...Boston. The first cassette I bought was probably.....either KINGS OF THE WILD FRONTIER by Adam & the Ants or JOE'S GARAGE ACT I by Frank Zappa (after hearing it constantly at camp courtesy of a Zappaphile counselor). Actually, it *MAY* have been CHIPMUNK PUNK by Alvin & the Chipmunks, just to hear their version of "My Sharona."

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

"Like I said, the first I event spent my own..."

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

Actually, it *MAY* have been CHIPMUNK PUNK by Alvin & the Chipmunks, just to hear their version of "My Sharona."
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).

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

That would be celestial!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 16 February 2003 17:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Or infernal... Yeah, definitely infernal.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Sunday, 16 February 2003 17:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

(tapes) 12 years old, same day..It takes a nation.. and Straight out of Compton

― Hayden (Hayden), Sunday, 16 February 2003 19:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

The first record (vinyl) I bought was Yes's "Drama" (to replace the old tape copy I had of it). It was 1990 (I only would have a CD player at home 1 year later) and I was 12 yrs old.

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Sunday, 16 February 2003 22:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

This is a tricky one, since my first true purchase was actually a mistake...

First Vinyl: The Cars - 'Panorama', but only because I was in this crap department store ('Towers', I believe), and I asked some other kid where I would find the cool song that had something to do with cars. He handed me this album. I was quite upset when I discovered it didn't have my song, although I came to appreciate it years later.

First 7": Gary Numan - 'Cars'. This was obviously the song I wanted, which I bought the next day. Sorry, Mr. Okasek, you didn't quite cut it with this kid.

First cassette: Duran Duran - 'Seven and the Ragged Tiger', I think.

First CD: I bought 3 CDs in 1989 via mail order right after I got my first player, which included: New Order - 'Substance 1987' (not bad), New Order - 'Technique' (still OK), and The Cult - 'Sonic Temple' (Ouch. That hurt)

― Rob Bolton, Sunday, 16 February 2003 23:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

First long-player I bought was on cassette and was Rage In Eden by Ultravox. The last time this question came up I think I tried to convince myself that it had its good points but on reflection I was wrong. Still wouldn't mind hearing it again though.

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 16 February 2003 23:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

first LP: "private dancer" by tina turner. first cassette: "wow" by bananarama. first CD: i guess it was probably "forever my lady" by jodeci.

― di smith (lucylurex), Monday, 17 February 2003 00:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

"You bought a CD player in the late 80s?"

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 lp purchased with own money: The Sylvers - "Something Special" (Capitol, 1976). It had the hit "Hotline" and at the time I couldn't quite decide between that and the Glenn Campbell album that had "Rhinestone Cowboy."

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

Either Ratt's Out of the Cellar or Night Ranger's Midnight Madness.

― Mean Guy, Monday, 17 February 2003 01:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

First 7" single was Black's "Wonderful Life".
First 12" single was Pixies' "Here Comes Your Man" if memory serves.
First CD single was The Mock Turtles' "Can You Dig It".
First CD album was The Cure's Seventeen Seconds.
First vinyl album was probably something hugely ambarrassing by Chris de Burgh.
First cassette album, magnificently, was this:

http://www.ukcollectibles.co.uk/Images/now7tapeb.jpg

No regrets...

― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 17 February 2003 04:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

10 points if u can spot the uncut journo
on the back !

― piscesboy, Monday, 17 February 2003 13:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

You must be out of your brilliant mind, piscesboy.

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 album prob either 'Off the Bone' by the Cramps / 'Hall of the Mountain Grill' by Hawkwind / 'Psychocandy'.

First CD: 'Kill Uncle'.

― Rayas Blancas, Monday, 17 February 2003 14:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

first 7": Too Shy by Kajagoogoo
first LP: Rhythm of the Night by DeBarge
first CD: the Stone Roses by the Stone Roses

― willem (willem), Monday, 17 February 2003 14:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

first tape was now 26
first cds were (cough) jagged little pill and everything must go and the bends,all with vouchers on stephen's day...
first mp3 was walk on the wild side

― robin (robin), Monday, 17 February 2003 15:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

IN THE WAKE OF POSEIDON, King Crimson. It was new. I was, I think, 12.

― matt riedl (veal), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

First vinyl album I bought was either Born in the USA or a two-fer of Who Sings My Generation or Magic Bus: The Who on Tour. I think it was Born in the USA, though. That would have been 1984. First CD was definitely Born to Run, which I still have, & which I bought in '85.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

Those Who LPs were packaged together, that should be an "&" instead of an "or".

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.hln.org/images/sports.jpg
followed by
http://www.grandroyal.com/beastieboys/lyrics/album_covers/bboy_licensed_to_ill_cover.gif

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

First anything: Duran Duran, "Hungry Like the Wolf" 45, purchased at Wal-Mart, Starkville, Miss., 1982.
First full-length on cassette: Men at Work, Cargo, purchased for road trip with father and younger brother to Six Flags. Father bought the Big Chill sdtk. Brother bought something with the Chipmunks, though not the Chipmunk Punk one, which he purchased later).
First full-lenght vinyl: U2, "Joshua Tree" via record club.
First CD: there were 4, purchased via record club: INXS, X; Enigma, MX???; B-52s, Cosmic Thing; and another that slips my mind.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 17 February 2003 17:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

First Album:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc900/c991/c9914039f65.jpg
First 8-tracks:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc800/c843/c843597bqm7.jpg http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc800/c830/c83074v29nm.jpg http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre100/e189/e18975nz9oa.jpg
First 45rpm Single:
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:3JNl9A1wLG0C:www.blondie.ausbone.net/pics
First Cassette:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd700/d739/d739482t38d.jpg
First 12” Single:
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:yKiRUqEB_FMC:www.djlex.com/img/coverart/
First CD:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc800/c847/c847636l0gb.jpg

― christoff (christoff), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

10 points if u can spot the uncut journo
on the back !

That would be Jim Irvin, singer in Furniture, I believe! Also played surreptitious guitar on a handful of early Gay Dad tracks, if memory serves...but I'm sure he doesn't want to talk about that.

― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Jets - S/T. On vinyl.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Queen - The Miracle

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 17 February 2003 23:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

lp - 1999
cassette - slippery when wet
cd - help!

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 17 February 2003 23:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

cassette: PE--Apocalypse '91
CD: Van Halen--F.U.C.K. (hangs head in shame)

― oops (Oops), Monday, 17 February 2003 23:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Probably Destroyer by Kiss. It was 1976. And my 13th birthday. Just after that I got Manfred Mann's The Roaring Silence, Supertramp's Crime of the Century and soon the whole back catalog of Genesis except Nursery Cryme. Plus Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 23:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

Europe 'The Final Countdown' was the first album (a cassette), Level 42 'Running in the Family' was the first LP I bought, James Brown 'Greatest Hits' was the first CD. The first two I bought when I was 11, the CD I bought a year later. First MP3 downloaded? Now there's a humdinger, perhaps there is a use for artifact after all.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 23:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

T.Rex's 'Electric Warrior' was the first LP
(must've been in 75-76, payed full black market price for it too: was no other price round these parts back then)

...what was the first cd that i bought myself, that i honestly cannot recall; cd's given by musicians started to appear in the corner of my shelf a few years before i bought a cd player or any cd's m'self

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 02:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

subquestion:

did you buy aforementioned LP/cassette/CD specifically in anticipation of answering questions on threads/in conversations such as this one?

Well did you? Come on now.

― Charlie (Charlie), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 02:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bad Reputation by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts when it was first released. (I was already a Runaways fan.)

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 08:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Damn, I'd say for about 85% of you I would have been your cool older sister.

This is why I avoid ILM.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 08:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

album: Duran Duran, "Rio"

CD: Michael Penn, "March"

(cringe)

― mosurock (mosurock), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 09:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

first cassette album = De La Soul 'Three Feet High & Rising'
first cassette single = De La Soul 'The Magic Number'
first vinyl single = 808 State 'Pacific'
first vinyl album = Altern 8 'Full On...Mask Hysteria'
first cd single = no idea! something from '94 tho
first cd album = ditto

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 11:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

First record: Beatles' Revolver. I bought it for "Eleanor Rigby" & "Got to Get you Into My Life" .. .. But "She Said She Said" and "Tomorrow Never Knows" changed my life forever.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

First cassette album owned - "Kylie" by Kylie Minogue, first cassette album bought - "Love & Kisses" by Dannii Minogue, first 7" single bought - "Help!" by Bananarama/Lananeeneenoonoo (French'n'Saunders'n'Kathy Burke, oh yes), first cassette single bought - "More Than You Know" by Martika, first CD single bought - "Venus As A Boy" by Bjork, first CD album bought - "To Bring You My Love" by P J Harvey. First vinyl album was probably Elastica, for the flexi.

― alexfack (alexfack), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

This is a crap thread, you can only post once...shit too late !

― kevin brady (groeuvre), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

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