# First album you bought for yourself? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 9, 2007, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342 "2007-05-09T02:06:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/61 "2007-05-09T14:42:57Z")
Either “Close to the Edge,” by Yes or “A Day At the Races,” by Queen I still have both of them, but they are in pretty sorry shape. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/62 "2007-05-09T14:47:18Z")
K-Tel, baby – _Wings Of Sound_. I’m straining my brain at the moment, but the only artists I can remember appearing on it were Blondie, Rupert Holmes and ABBA. ---
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/63 "2007-05-09T14:54:47Z")
The first album I remember buying was George Carlin’s _ **FM & AM** _. The first album I ever owned was a Christmas gift from my aunt. It was either _ **Baby I’m-a Want You** _ by Bread or _ **The Partridge Family Album** _ I’d bought the Carlin LP because I’d seen his act on television variety shows and really thought that his Hippy Dippy Weather man was funny. I had NO IDEA :eek: what I was purchasing. So I dropped the needle and was immediately convulsed in laughter over “Shoot” [GC] "I was fired in Las Vegas for saying “shit.” In a town where the big game is called “crap.”[/GC] Meanwhile, my father in the other room is hearing nothing but a steady stream of profanity coming from his speakers. He didn’t understand at all why I was on the floor laughing. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/64 "2007-05-09T15:12:00Z")
A Night At The Opera - Queen Although I don’t listen to much Queen any more, this was an amazing album at the time. My current tastes find it to be way over-produced, but it’s still nice to reminisce. ---
**Author:** ![Tarkovsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Tarkovsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarkovsky)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/65 "2007-05-09T15:23:13Z")
Spice Girls - Spiceworld. I still don’t know why I bought it. I’d never heard a song by them before (I didn’t listen to the radio/watch TV), but all of my friends were totally obsessed. If it’s any consolation, my taste in music has improved quite a bit since then. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/66 "2007-05-09T15:29:33Z")
Begged my parents for: Songbird, one of those K-Tel compilations. The song I wanted was Somebody’s Knockin’ by Terry Gibbs, but it also had Poco, Ambrosia, Leo Sayer, etc. I still have and still like it. Bought myself: Like a Virgin, by Madonna. Still have it and still like it. **NuttyBunny** , **wheresgeorge04** , I am newly impressed by you! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/67 "2007-05-09T15:37:36Z")
**Meet the Beatles** ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/68 "2007-05-09T15:37:59Z")
I think the first album I owned was Def Leppard’s Pyromania. It’s still one of my favorite albums. Now you’re gonna make me listen to it. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/69 "2007-05-09T16:04:44Z")
My first three were: 1.Magical Mystery Tour 2.Sgt.Peppers 3.Too-Rye-Ay by Dexy’s Midnight Runners ---
**Author:** ![Improvisor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/50afbb/32.png) [@Improvisor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improvisor)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/70 "2007-05-09T16:46:24Z")
_Pride_ by White Lion. Rock On! What can I say… I was young, it was the Eighties, and my older brother was into the hair bands. I don’t think I’ve actually even listened to that album since the late Eighties, but I think it might still be laying around somewhere. Maybe I need to go dig through some boxes and find that tonight… ---
**Author:** ![sparklemotion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@sparklemotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparklemotion)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/71 "2007-05-09T16:53:44Z")
I went to buy Red Hot Chili Peppers **Blood Sugar Sex Magik** and they wouldn’t let me because of the parental advisory sticker. My mom had to come back to the mall with me to buy it. I can’t believe they even enforced that! ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/72 "2007-05-09T16:57:54Z")
[QUOTE=threnodyangelfire] [Olivia Newton-John’s “Greatest Hits” Volume 2.](http://www.onlyolivia.com/music/albums/data/gh2.html) Shut up. 😛 I was only seven and had saved my 50c pocket money FOREVER to get it. [/QUOTE] This was the first album I bought for myself, too. I remembered the picture on the cover and I had to search Amazon to see which album it was. Good grief, 1982. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/73 "2007-05-09T17:03:32Z")
A couple of Santana’s - _Moonflower_ and _Abraxas_. Vinyl, used. This would have been right around 1980, when I first got my own turntable. - Tamerlane ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/74 "2007-05-09T17:12:08Z")
Kiss _Destroyer_ ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/75 "2007-05-09T17:17:08Z")
The Beatles, **Revolver** , on vinyl. Since this was selected by Rolling Stone as the greatest album of all time, one could say that my music collection started at the top and went downhill. First recording came a few months earlier: the Byrds, Eight Mile High, on 45. Second album: The Doors, Strange Days. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/76 "2007-05-09T17:18:57Z")
I’m clearly WAY younger than you guys. \>\_\> The first album I bought for myself was on cassette. The soundtrack to the first Ninja Turtles movie. \>\_\> ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/77 "2007-05-09T17:28:35Z")
[QUOTE=sparklemotion] I went to buy Red Hot Chili Peppers **Blood Sugar Sex Magik** and they wouldn’t let me because of the parental advisory sticker. My mom had to come back to the mall with me to buy it. I can’t believe they even enforced that! [/QUOTE] I love your username. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/78 "2007-05-09T17:37:04Z")
Jim Croce - “You Don’t Mess Around With Jim” Pretty cool for an 8 yo, I always thought. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/79 "2007-05-09T17:59:59Z")
Emerson Lake & Palmer’s “Brain Salad Surgery” on vinyl in 1974. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/80 "2007-05-09T19:53:48Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m so glad it wasn’t The Archies! Um, how about the Monkees? I’d have been 8 or 9. I still enjoy most of the songs on that album. Did you know that the sand dune parts of their opening credits were filmed at Hyperion (LA’s main sewage\* treatment plant)? \*now a Waste Water treatment because the word sewage has been determined to have negative connotations. ((don’t get me started about biosolids)) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342.md?page=5)