What was the first album / CD you bought?

JazzGuitarGimp · Post by **JazzGuitarGimp** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 7:43 am

What was the first album / CD you bought with your own money? Mine was Abbey Road by the Beatles in 1969. I was 10 years old... It's still one of my all-time favorite discs, alongside Dark Side Of The Moon.

rp · Post by rp » Sat Aug 29, 2015 9:55 am

JazzGuitarGimp wrote:What was the first album / CD you bought with your own money? Mine was Abbey Road by the Beatles in 1969. I was 10 years old...

Let It Be in 1970, I was 10 years old.

At the local downtown Woolworths. Whether it could be called my own money... LIB should be my first LP, before that I'd buy a single every week w/ my allowance. They had a plexi box with holes to put your hands through to flip through the singles then you'd call a Woolworth matron in a blue shop smock to open the box for you. Seems like a thousand years ago like a b&w newsreel with Herbert Hoover waving.

deeder · Post by **deeder** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 10:45 am

After my Dad bought me Paranoid/Black Sabbath, the very first vinyl I bought myself was In Rock/Deep Purple.
What a gold era...

Leo_Gnardo · Post by **Leo_Gnardo** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 11:03 am

Believe it or not I had no turntable to play any records on for 14 years after my first "plug n play" with its accompanying stacks of 78 RPM red disks, one favorite was Burl Ives croaking out "Jimmy Crack Corn." On the west coast there was another youngster who enjoyed the heck out of that record, later he took the stage name "Captain Beefheart." But that was the 50's friends, and kid music.

Second year in college I was in with a couple of apartment mates that had stereos, one of 'em in the livingroom, and another a portable GE suitcase type I could haul into my room. September 1972 I finally threw down for some plastic platters, first one was Hot Tuna "Burgers." Still a favorite.

Not long after that, Beefheart & the Magic Band "Mirror Man", couldn't get away from that scratchy cracked & crazed Burl Ives voice...

cbass · Post by **cbass** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 11:39 am

I think the first tape I ever bought was black Sabbath paranoid I had 5 older brothers so I'd usually steal theirs

JoeCon · Post by **JoeCon** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 12:11 pm

Well the first 45, remember those, I bought was Satisfaction by the Stones.
It was summer of 65 so I was 13...

sliberty · Post by **sliberty** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 12:19 pm

I won a CD in a radio contest before I even had a CD player. I answered a question about a Jefferson Airplane album, and won a copy of Long John Silver.

Later when I had gotten a player, the first CD I bought was Who's Next.mi still think that was a great choice.

John_P_WI · Post by **John_P_WI** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 2:34 pm

Don't remember the first album, i still have something like 400+ that are never listened to, first cd was Dark Side of the Moon then Bridge of Sighs etc...

brewdude · Post by **brewdude** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 2:44 pm

In 6th grade I won queen's "news of the world" on a radio give away.

In 7th grade I bought "back in black", "get the knack", and the first Pat Benetar album... I never listen to any those tunes on purpose anymore.

Post by **HeeBGB** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 3:16 pm

Fist Vinyl I ever bought for myself was Boston's first album and Aerosmith Rocks. Up until that point I would just listen to my brothers stuff.

I couldn't tell you what my first CD was. Maybe Ry Cooder's Bop 'Til You Drop?

boots · Post by **boots** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 4:07 pm

Probably the first record I bought was Elton John "The Bitch is Back" because it had a bad word in the title. But the first REAL album was Bachman Turner Overdrive "Four Wheel Drive".

Phil_S · Post by **Phil_S** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 4:58 pm

I'm reasonably sure it was a 45 rpm single. I'm thinking it was Please Please Me, though it could have been I Wanna Hold Your Hand. First LP was likely Sgt Peppers. $3 was a lot of money to blow on a record. One had to choose carefully.

LeeMo · Post by **LeeMo** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 5:11 pm

CCR Green River on cassette.

Gibsonman63 · Post by **Gibsonman63** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 6:42 pm

On vinyl, it was Bachman Turner Overdrive's Four Wheel Drive album. I believe my first 8-track was Aerosmith's Toys in the Attic. I had one of those portable 8-track players that looked like a detonator box. The handle on top was to change tracks. I carried that thing everywhere as a young teen.

David Root · Post by **David Root** » Sat Aug 29, 2015 7:01 pm

First one I remember was Axis-Bold as Love. It was a stereo LP, I had to special order it at the store, they only stocked mono. This was 1967 remember, and in England, which was VERY backward out in the sticks, where I lived, (not in London) even at that late date.

Later on it turned out it was a first pressing and worth $$$. But I lost it in a move somewhere along the line.

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