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

45: Pink Floyd, "Money" or Yes, "Roundabout"
LP, new: Yes, 90125
LP, used: David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
8 track tape: The Beach Boys, Holland
Cassette: Talk Talk, Spirit of Eden
CD: The Loud Family, Interbabe Concern
Paid download, full album: Pere Ubu, 390 Degrees of Simulated Stereo

45: Deep Purple, "Smoke on the Water"
LP: Queen, Night at the Opera
8-track tape: Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits
Cassette: AC/DC, High Voltage
CD: U2, The Joshua Tree
Cassingle: Primal Scream, "Loaded"

45: either the Kingsmen's "Louie Louie" (with the Isley Brothers' "Twist and Shout" on the B-side) or Tom Petty's "Don't Come Around Here No More"
LP: Judas Priest, Unleashed in the East: Live in Japan and Point of Entry (same purchase)
8-track tape: never
Cassette: another Judas Priest album, either British Steel or Screaming for Vengeance
CD: Sinéad O'Connor, The Lion and the Cobra and Frank Zappa, Jazz From Hell (same purchase)
Cassingle: Metallica, "Eye of the Beholder"/"Breadfan"

First CD was Talking Heads "Sand in the Vaseline" comp, first piece of used vinyl was CCR "Cosmo's Factory", first piece of 'new' vinyl was the Operation Ivy "Hectic" EP

first album:
i dont think i bought any of my own, by the time i was old enough i was onto cassettes.
first one i was given was Olivia Newton Johns greatest hits vol2 on my bday when i was 6 or 7.

first cassette: (bought when i was 9, i think)
Madonna: Like A Virgin

first CD
-Nirvana In Utero
-Dinosaur Jr Where You Been
-Judgement Night soundtrack
(purchased all 3 at a Sam Goody near Union Station in LA while on an exchange trip to the States in highschool in 1993)

First cd: Shakespear's Sister "Hormonally Yours"

― paul cox (paul cox), Saturday, February 15, 2003 8:10 PM bookmarkflaglink

Actually my first cd excursion was 3 at the same time as well (dunno why I didn't mention all of them 18 years ago).

The aforementioned Shakespear's Sister, along with Cowboy Junkies' 'Trinity Session' and Curve's 'Doppelganger.'

I bought Chicago 18 on vinyl at age 8 or 9

I wanted George Michael's Faith but I don't think mom was ok with it

No Jacket Required (mistakenly thought it had “invisible touch” on it)

Heh, invisible touch was the first album i listened to on CD, at the local library. I was BLOWN AWAY by the crisp, clear sound. No need to rewind or fast forward!!

I actually purchased a few CD's in anticipation of owning a discman and then had to wait some time to actually hear them. I remember that the first was 'Last Splash', from a vending machine(!!) in a movie theatre somewhere in New Jersey. The novelty of buying a CD out of a vending machine appealed, so did the competitive price.
When I got my discman, I remember that 'Automatic for the People' wad the first thing I played on it, so I must have also had that one beforehand.

These were somewhat uncharacteristic choices, since i mostly listened to older stuff...

I used to buy a lot of used vinyl (because it was very cheap then, and i mostly listened to older stuff) but I can't remember the first.

Nor do i rember the first cassette- it may have been 'Rockin All Over The World' or 'Born in the USA'

xp “I Want Your Sex” probably ruined that dream for a number of kids.

oh yeah.

I remember us watching the Grammys and Color Me Badd was performing and mom was like "oh wow, theyre so good! it's so nice to hear this kind of music again", loving the harmonies, then the chorus comes on "I wanna sex you up".

"THEY JUST LOST POINTS WITH ME!"

xpost as a kid I was obsessed with "Easy Lover" by Phil/Philip Bailey

first dubbed cassette was DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince - "He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper", which might be the first time an album title existed purely to help you distinguish who was which musician

What about "don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player"? :)

That one's kinda misleading tho

was more true of the follow-up, "Shoot Davey, I Can Always Get Another Guitar Player"

At camp one year, this awkward kid took the mic during announcements at lunch and asked if anyone has seen his DJ Jazzy Jeff tape… It became a running joke for the rest of the summer.

He really seems more like someone whose guitar player would be called Nigel.

xp

Nevermind, nigel is the drummer. Even better!

xxpost did he freestyle it?

i.e.

My name is Micah Kushner and I"m here to say
I'm missing my Jeff tape in a major way

First LP: Billy Joel, The Stranger in 1977. So out of step with my classmates who were into Kiss.

First cassette: I bought a mess in 1985 when I got my first portable tape player (Toshiba, I think). It's probably Tears For Fears, Songs From The Big Chair (UK extended version).

First CD: I got a CD player in 1987 and joined the Columbia House to get 7 or 8 for a dollar or something like that. Vaguely recall The Smiths, Strangeways / 10000 Maniacs, In My Tribe, possibly Depeche More, Shriekback and The Stranglers.

First LP: Billy Joel, 52nd Street

First Cassette: Men at Work, Business as Usual

First CD: Sugarcubes, Life's Too Good

First cassette (a double): Iron Maiden - Live After Death

First CD: Meatloaf - Hits Out of Hell

No idea of my first record. First 7" was, I think, Still of the Night.

mmmyeah, my taste has been all over the place forever I guess

first vinyl: the sisters of mercy, the reptile house EP
first CD: john hiatt, bring the family

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)