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

I'm much more proud of that selection.

Aerosmith - Draw the Line & Kiss - Destroyer (8 track - circa 1981)
I got these at a swap meet not long after I was given a low end 70s stereo with a turntable, radio & 8 track built within. The Kiss Destroyer 8 track met a firey death in a friend of mines old van engine caught fire and burned up in college (R.I.P. 1976 - 1991).

Led Zeppelin - II & Houses of the Holy (tape - circa 1983)
I got these two from a cool aunt, the same Christmas I got my first walkman.

U2 - War, The Unforgettable Fire & REM - Reckoning (cd - circa 1986)
I bought all three for $10 bucks a year off a guy who needed cash about a six months before I even had a CD player.

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs & Mission of Burma - self titled (old Ryko one)
These were the first two CDs I bought in college, day I moved into the dorms. Quite a memorable afternoon.

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.

Peter Cetera - Solitude/Solitaire
Huey Lewis and the News - Fore!
Kool and the Gang - Greatest Hits
George Strait - Greatest Hits (vol. 1)
Kool Moe Dee - How Ya Like Me Now
Billy 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.

Not really sure about the 8-track and cassette, though.

1)first cassingle: 'chain reaction' by john farnham
2)first tape: 'honeychild' by jenny morrisson
3)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.

first tape: Please Hammer don't hurt em

First CD I called my own, though my dad bought it. Donald Fagen, Kamakiriad.
I was a weird kid.

(last records bought (ordered, actually): Daft Punk's Homework and Discovery--thanx to y'all out there)

can't remember my first cd or vinyl (i don't have much vinyl anyway).

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)

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)(!).

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!

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).

Sorry, I'm only on the first cup of coffee. That should've read:

Like I said, the first album I ever spent....

Ooh, could you imagine Chipmunks From the Chocolate Fireball??

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.

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)

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No regrets...

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.

First CD: 'Kill Uncle'.

I keep trying to think what was the first lp I bought at a shop with my own money, but it's a tough one. I was buying singles at jumble sales a lot, and I'd get lps as presents, so it must either be Kimono My House or Autobahn. Both of which got my parwnts complaining so much, I had to take them back to the shop (Autobahn) or swap with friends, as we only had one stereo in the house.

Then, I won a nice stereo on a TV show, so could play records in my room, and that was alright. Actually, I did have a small portable record player, good for singles or 78s but not so much for lps.

Anyway, will decide which, later...

the Pet Shop Boys remix album "Disco" on cassette. I played it to my grandma in Tralee whilst she was giving me cigs and bottles of beer when I was 14 years old and she thought it was grand.

Calzino your grandma sounds rad!

Cassette: There were five boys in my fourth grade class of fifteen, and we would gather round a cassette player with multiple headphone jacks, singing along to Def Leppard's Hysteria with all our guts, debating just what it was we were singing ("are you getting it?" no). My cool four-years-older brother had a cassette dub of the album and got sick of it, having moved on to the Green-er pastures of R.E.M.; he gave me his the dub (follow me, don't follow me). I wanted more. On a trip to Florida to visit my grandparents, I was given some spending money, and for the first time I decided to put it toward music instead of a book or a toy. I decided on Pyromania, probably because the cover art looked the most exciting. The cashier at the department store perhaps agreed — much too exciting — and said I'd have to get an adult to vouch for my right to the purchase. My grandfather, a retired bookbinder and opera fan, was unacquainted with the Leps but nonetheless politely told the clerk I was entitled to choose what I wanted. On the same trip, I was gifted an off-brand walkman so I could actually listen to the tape, facing further mortification when my grandmother listened to "Foolin'" (she declared the sound of the unit not bad for the price, though she didn't share this view of the music).

LPI've never remembered this. Vinyl was in its dying days with US music chains in '89, and I was ambivalent about the format. I understood that it sounded better than tapes, but I had the idea that if I touched vinyl I would destroy it. (Evidence included records in the family home with toddler-Jesse footprints on them — the babysitter had fallen asleep, and I must have longed for contact with these magical forbidden objects). I also didn't have my own turntable until I acquired a stacking system a couple of years later, so I felt less ownership of records. I like to think my first was either Peter Gabriel no. 2 or Fear of Music, both of which I bought in 1990, but it might have been a cutout of Hello! I Must Be Going — rarely got past "I Don't Care Anymore" on that one -- or a beat-up flea market copy of Glass Houses.

CD: One of many instances in a lifetime of buying albums I already owned in some other form, this was Songs from the Big Chair (already had a cassette and an LP), also in 1990.

Minidisc: I bought my first unit that plays these a couple of years ago and have one prerecorded title to go with it, Diamond Life.

first cassette - ABBA “Greatest Hits” ca 1976
first LP - Cold Chisel “Circus Animals”, returned to the store for “Hitwave ‘82”
first CD - The Cure “The Top” from a cutout bin around 1987

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.

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.

Purple Rain and Raising Hell were the first tapes I bought, then after my Mom heard them she took them away.

jeez Mom

please hammer don't hurt em

Lol my mom bought me that one

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!!

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, 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?"

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.

TMNT soundtrack

My first CD3 was this:
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I 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.

Pretty sure it was this bad boy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europop_(album)