― 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
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 17 February 2003 17:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― christoff (christoff), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
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
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 17 February 2003 23:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 17 February 2003 23:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Monday, 17 February 2003 23:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 23:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 23:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
...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
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
― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 08:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
This is why I avoid ILM.
― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 08:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
CD: Michael Penn, "March"
(cringe)
― mosurock (mosurock), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 09:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 11:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― alexfack (alexfack), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kevin brady (groeuvre), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/6EXADT7.jpg
― warm smell of burritos (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:47 (nine years ago) link
whoa hueg, sorry
Beatles 1967-1970Doors, 13
I must have been 9 or 10, so 1977-1978
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:58 (nine years ago) link
Bonnie Tyler - Faster Than the Speed of Night
― jmm, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 00:17 (nine years ago) link
LP: Beatles, White AlbumCD: I wish I had a better memory of this, but I think it was Philip Glass, Songs from Liquid Days (lol)Vinyl single: Cramps, "Faster Pussycat"/"You Got Good Taste" (7" picture disc on New Rose) (I was not a single buyer)8-track tape: something by Neil Young I think?
Don't recall any prerecorded cassettes or CD singles
― rockist popist papist (WilliamC), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 00:27 (nine years ago) link
the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
this is what we do. do. do. do.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 00:30 (nine years ago) link
haha Blind Man's Zoo was one of my first elpees.
My first CD was Michael Penn's March.
First CD single: "Lovesong."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 00:34 (nine years ago) link
cassette: men at work, business as usual
lp: possibly thriller, but i'm not sure
cd: rust never sleeps
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 00:36 (nine years ago) link
lp: Chicago 18
cassette: Candlebox - s/t (shut up)
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 00:48 (nine years ago) link
First LP was either Goofy Greats or the Hair movie soundtrack (which my parents inexplicably let 6-year-old me listen to). First cassette was Rush's A Farewell To Kings. First CD was a bootleg of the Who's 4/5/68 Fillmore East show. That's the only one of these I still have.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 01:17 (nine years ago) link
Oh weird mookie, my first CD was that Men At Work album, followed closely by the first Gin Blossoms album
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 01:25 (nine years ago) link
Continuing the Men at Work theme, I saved my allowance for weeks to buy my first new record, the Business as Usual LP in the spring of 1982. Before that I had bought a couple of used records, notably Judas Priest's Hero, Hero.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 01:40 (nine years ago) link
I think my first tape was Diver Downfirst 45 was "Eye of the Tiger"first LP was Thriller10K Maniacs was my first CD
― warm smell of burritos (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 01:56 (nine years ago) link
it was either the marshall mathers lp or the third foo fighters album (i bought them within a couple of days of each other), which is unfortunate as i can't pin anything of biographical or genealogical interest onto either of those albums
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 02:35 (nine years ago) link
first 2 LPs bought in a Manchester shop c.1975/76: Black Sabbath - Paranoid and Led Zeppelin - IIpretty great start and I first listened to them loud on headphones!
soon after I bought some Beatles cassettes: Revolver and Magical Mystery Tour - one of these actually in Liverpool I think! (the other prob in Stockport) most Beatles albums I'd already home taped from friends. I also bought Led Zep's live The Song Remains The Same (cassette or LP?).
I bought some Roxy albums from other kids at boarding school (in Staffs) during 3rd Form (1976): Siren and Viva!. strangely I didn't learn of Eno and hear the first 2 Roxy albums until 1980, though I did also hear someone else's copies of Stranded and Country Life and in 1977 Bowie - Heroes, which made a strong impression (side 2 ambient weirdness!).
first artist I followed/bought contemporary was Ferry: Let's Stick Together and In Your Mind.last album I bought in England before I left Dec '77 was Never Mind The Bollocks, October release I think.
that's pretty much my record collection until Jan 1980 when I got a part-time job and could afford to buy LPs every week.
― Paul, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 03:08 (nine years ago) link