I bought “Sergeant Pepper’s” when I was about 10 in a second hand store. It was a worn out copy, so I got me a new copy a few years later when I had a little more pocket money. That was 30 years ago, but I finally purchased the Beatles mono box last year the day it got released. Since I’ve never ditched a record, I now own three copies.
This (Revolver), but in my case, as Christmas gifts for several young people over the years. Gotta educate the youth of America, you know!
Fables of the Reconstruction three times-- tape, vinyl, CD, in that order. All three used. For Up, also three times: tape, special edition CD, and CD when the first CD was stolen. Everything in their catalogue before that I bought twice–first on tape, then on CD.
Just thought of a couple more:
Switched On Bach - Wendy (Walter) Carlos
Music For Airports - Brian Eno
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Joni Mitchell’s Hejira is one. I bought it on 8-track, when 8-tracks were cheap (and on their way out) at a K-Mart in the bargain bin. (The same kind of thing where now you find the $5.00 DVDs at Wal-Mart.) I bought it on vinyl for home. I bought it on CD when I started buying CDs in the early 90s.
Missed cassette and digital download. 
I’ve bought probably five or six copies of Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue on CD. Why? Because whenever I discover someone who hasn’t heard it, I grab my copy off the shelf and say, “Take this and listen to it a couple of times. If you don’t like it, you can bring it back.” So far I’ve done that four or five times, and I have yet to get a copy back from anyone.
Um, I don’t know how to say this but, the mono box? I’ve suffered through re-recorded or re-mixed stereo versions of Doo-Wop classics the past few days and, though my first copy was Stereo, it was played on a mono record player. Is the mono mix as much better as I think it is? And is it remixed for the limited range of a car radio? I used to have to play with the bass and treble to make 60s stuff sound right I never got to listen to it.
Note to the audiophiles, who often include me: Fuck off. 
I think they brought the mono back because of that ridiculous faded echo when they tried to make those first few albums stereo, so the quality must have improved.
Answering just for myself, not EH, who is probably more qualified.
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First of all, in my defense, 1992 was a very important year for me, and some of the memories of that time are my most cherished.
I’ve bought Army of Lovers’ Massive Luxury Overdose at least three times, due to losses while moving house. It reminds me of my first boyfriend, and of a glorious year at college before everything fell apart, and of Sunday nights at that college town’s gay-on-Sundays dance club, and of several very sweet but meaningless hook-ups.
No, I’m certainly not, it’s just a matter of taste for me. Since all the albums in the mono box were originally mixed in mono (the stereo mixes where done later in a rather sloppy way), I wanted to go for the hearing experience that came as close to that when the albums were first released. I have not listened to the remastered stereo versions, so I can’t compare, but I like the sound of the remastered mono versions (but I am by no means an audiophile).
- The Stone Roses first album. I bought that thing on cassette from a store called Tidal Wave. TW had a No-Risk-Disc display that offered some great music including Big Star and The Sundays and if you didn’t like it after listening, you could bring it back no questions asked. I remember cruising around in my Suzuki Samurai with the top down listening to “Shoot You Down” and having the tape eaten twice that summer. It got replaced a third time in college (the big problem was that the B-Side was considerable longer due to additional tracks released in the US). I finally replaced it on CD and only had to buy it twice after it was scratched.
2)No. Although Graceland is amazing, it doesn’t have “Bridge Over Troubled Water” which is his crowning achievement.
I just thought about The Wall.
When it came out, my grandfather got it for me for my tenth birthday. It eventually warped and scratched from use (hey, I was ten), and was re-bought.
And on cassette.
And then there was the soundtrack (it had a better version of Mother, and a couple tracks not on the album), etc.).
And, of course, the CD.
And then there was the Gold/remastered CD. Had to have that.
And Water’s live version (not sure that was worth it).
And, of course, the Movie.
VHS at least twice.
Then DVD.
Someday they’re going to release it on Blu-Ray. I’ll probably be in line.
I used to DJ at weddings and parties so giving away CD’s was at times good for business.
Most of the stuff was when I played something out of the mainstream.
I gave away a Soundtrack CD from the Cybil Shepherd/Bruce Willis TV show Moonlighting three or four times. (It has Cybil singing a “Blue Moon” cover that just knocks you down - lady actually has a great set of pipes) It also has Bruce Willis singing on it which can be a painful thing to listen to.
Another relatively unknown blues artist and songwriter named Mark Selby has a CD called called " More Storms Comin’ ". He’s written some big name songs for others but hasn’t really broken into his own. (Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Blue on Black; Dixie Chicks - There’s Your Trouble) I bought at least five copies of More Storms Comin’. (4 autographed)
At parties I played a few of his danceable blues songs and gave away the CD to people who would want to know who/what the song was.
I had manged to see him every time he was in the area and bought copies straight from his autograph table. Enough that he recognized me. When I told him that was giving away his CD’s it must have made a lasting impression on him because he still thanked me the last time I saw him even though I quit working the DJ thing years ago.
:eek: If we hadn’t eloped, that was going to be our wedding song! I had no idea it was available!
We just subscribed to Rhapsody a few days ago and their search doesn’t seem to have advanced options (that I can find). Does anyone know how I’d go about finding this?
I bought 4 albums 4 times each:
The Wall
Wish You Were Here
Blonde On Blonde
The Doors (self-titled debut)
I’ve rebought albums a ton in the past- format shifts, eaten cassette tapes, etc. Most of that is moot now that I’ve transitioned to digital.
But the worst reason I’ve ever rebought an album has to be Guns N Roses The Spaghetti Incident. I bought that thing 4 times on CD. Threw it away the first 3, which is not something I’ve ever done before or since. But it was just such a bad album! So, a year or two would go by, I’d start thinking, “How bad could it be? It’s GnR!” So I’d rebuy it. The fourth time, I finally ripped it, so I can not-listen to it whenever I want now.
Howzabout Amazon?
Not a download but you can have the CD mailed to you for under $10.
Awesome – thanks!
There’s lots of stuff I bought on vinyl and then again on CD, but the only CD I can think of that I have bought twice was (dons fireproof pants) Andrew Dice Clay’s first album. And it was completely accidental. I found it in the used record store one day, realized it was something I wanted, bought it right up.
Months, possibly years later, I repeated that exact sequence.
ETA: Oh, and if it counts one of the first 2 CDs I bought was Beethoven’s Ninth (Karajan conducting the Berliner Philharmonker), which I effectively bought again when I bought the complete Beethoven symphonies box set.
Chuck Mangione. Live At The Hollywood Bowl, 1978.
I was there, bought the album, bought 3-4 cassette versions, and at least a couple of the 2-CD sets.
I loves me some Chuck.