First Vinyl Single: Wrapped Around Your Finger – The Police*
First Vinyl LP: Rio – Duran Duran
Feel free to include your first Cassette or CD too, I don’t remember what mine were, and if 8-tracks or downloads were your first purchases post them too!
*I bought my first ever record in a shoe shop, they were selling the top ten chart singles amongst their fine array of shoes for some weird reason! The shoes were comfortable too.
I think the first record I bought was one of the first four Monkees albums. My folks might have bought me a couple to start but I'm pretty sure I bought maybe Headquarters.
But geez, who remembers this stuff? I know I must have bought stuff like InAGaddaDaVida and Steppenwolf Gold, but the most significant LP I remember buying without knowing anything about it was CSNY Deja Vu. IIRC, it was up for a Grammy against James Taylor and Simon and Garfunkel so I had this impulse that it must be good. Ended up guiding my listening patterns for years to come.
Never bought a single vinyl record.
Can't remember my first cassete. It's probably a Now That's What I Call Music! type of compilation album. Everyone and their grandmother had one of those back then.
My first CD was Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Read My Lips. I still have it. I keep like 90% of all CDs I ever bought, neat and tidy in CD storage binders. I throw away all packagings.
First music DVD was Jamie Cullum - Live at Blenheim Palace. I no longer have it. I gave out all of my DVD collections to my friends more than a decade ago.
I had many of the early Now ones with the pigs on the cover. They've begun re-releasing them recently too.
shareReally? That's neat. I don't have many fond memories of cassettes because I never had many. My brother had hundreds and hundreds of them so I would just borrow some of them to listen. But his collections were mostly jazz instrumentals, a few pop music here and there.
He also had many casettes recorded from the radio. Not just music but also radio dramas and comedy programmes, etc. I listened to those too.
I never had any tape recorder either. Only used cheap walkman-like player (not Sony, obviously) that had no record capability. Didn't care about sound quality either at the time. When it broke, I couldn't care less to buy a replacement.
When I got my first CD, my brother already moved out so I never play cassettes ever again since. He ended up throwing away all his cassette collections and had bought even more CDs. Whole lot more than my CD collections. I think he still keeps them, at least partially.
I never really bought cassettes much as a kid, I was mainly vinyl, eventually the cassettes would get bought again on CD much like your brother, but most of my music is on MP3 these days, much less clutter.
shareOh no, MP3 sounds so bad. Try FLACs (or ALACs if you're in Apple ecosystem.) They sounds exactly like CDs, which is great.
shareFirst I ever bought with my own money: Use Your Illusion 1&2. It was a very special day.
That was a CD of course. The first record I would have bought would have been a stack of Zep and Sabbath records at a yard sale back in 94 or so. I didn't even have a record player back then. I just wanted em.
My first album was a Christmas gift from my brother when I was 11.
Elton Johns Greatest Hits.
The first album I purchased was
the soundtrack to Jaws.
I didn't listen to music or the radio outside of some records my parents had.
I did like Broadway and movie soundtracks too.
Also some familiar classical pieces introduced to me by Looney Tunes.
To be fair I do recall buying some second hand Bill Cosby albums at a garage sale.
When I was 4 yo (I'm turning 50 this year), I had a little turntable in my room. I used to sneak into the living room and smuggle my parent's Donovan records into my room to listen to. This was my first ever musical obsession, age 4: https://youtu.be/iab9YKocUcw. This could possible explain a lot. It very quickly removed the mystique behind cursing in my young mind.
I remember the first record I bought myself too, it was the ep that originally contained this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EXX8L_Isp4. There were a couple of years where this was only available on vinyl. I had to get a turntable so I could play it, lol!
My dad bought me (and I wish I had it now) a 78 of Bonnie and Clyde the movie. The entire movie on one album. I think you can get it on Ebay.
shareFirst record that was bought FOR me might have been the first Monkees album back when it was new.
Later I remember buying a 45 of Mama Told Me Not To Come by Three Dog Night.
Odd that I remember having about a dozen records when I was a kid but don't remember specifically how I acquired them.
I mean, my folks might have bought me Bill Cosby or maybe Simon & Garfunkel but not Steppenwolf or In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.
That information is lost in the annals of time.
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PS My first CD was probably the soundtrack from Chariots of Fire.