# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/81 "2007-05-09T19:55:57Z")
The Beatles Red Album. The records were red vinyl. I still have it, and the matching Blue Album, as well. ---
**Author:** ![AHoosierMama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@AHoosierMama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHoosierMama)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/82 "2007-05-09T20:08:00Z")
I remember getting a John Denver Greatest hits album for my 6th or 7th birthday, along with a K-tel compilation that had My Green Tamborine on it (I nearly played the music right off that poor 'ol record). But the first one I went out and bought myself was AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. What was I thinking? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/83 "2007-05-09T20:15:19Z")
[QUOTE=AHoosierMama] I remember getting a John Denver Greatest hits album for my 6th or 7th birthday, along with a K-tel compilation that had My Green Tamborine on it (I nearly played the music right off that poor 'ol record). [/QUOTE] **Green Tambourine** (by the Lemon Pipers) was my _second_ album. I think it was $1.27 at the Thrifty Drug Store. ---
**Author:** ![Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/84 "2007-05-09T20:25:16Z")
Pretty sure mine was **Let’s Get Small** by Steve Martin or possibly **Saturday Night Fever** ---
**Author:** ![Foxy40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Foxy40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foxy40)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/85 "2007-05-09T20:32:55Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] The first actual record I bought was a classical music collection called “Music America Loves Best”. Still love that music. I think I was about 10 or 11. The first non-classical album I bought for myself was a tie, because I bought at the same time: Depeche Mode “Some Great Reward” and Sting’s “The Dream of the Blue Turtles” (yes, on vinyl) [/QUOTE] The Who. Who Are You. It cost $4.99 if my brain is working. I blasted it out my back window for weeks until the neighbors complained. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/86 "2007-05-09T20:51:35Z")
First album I bought for myself: _Synchronicity_ (on cassette). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Unkempt\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@The\_Unkempt\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Unkempt_One)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/87 "2007-05-09T21:28:32Z")
Unplugged by Eric Clapton. I bought this on cassette back in 1992 when it came out. I now have this album on my ipod and listen to it at least once a month. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/88 "2007-05-09T21:56:23Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud] The first LP I ever bought with my own money was Stan Freberg’s _A Child’s Garden of Freberg_. I was eleven years old, and although I had other records that family members had bought me, I craved this Freberg collection with a childish but intense passion. My parents disapproved, so I saved money from my allowance for over a year and finally bought the record for about three dollars. Played it very softly in my room so that my parents wouldn’t know about it. Best three bucks I’ve ever spent. [/QUOTE] C’est Si Bon! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/89 "2007-05-09T22:00:07Z")
I have no idea as to the identity of the first album I ever bought but I’m pretty sure it was from the Gold Mine Records & Comics shop about 10 blocks from home. Just thinking about it brings back memories of the smell of all those old album covers…🙂 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/90 "2007-05-09T22:04:22Z")
I’m pretty sure it was _Steppenwolf Live_. 1970. The first 45 was probably something by The Monkeys back in 1965 or 1966 (or thereabouts). ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/91 "2007-05-09T22:10:52Z")
Queen’s A Night At The Opera, on vinyl. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/92 "2007-05-09T23:04:33Z")
Y’all are either way cooler than I was as a kid, or there’s some selective editing going on here! Mine was Michael Jackson, **Thriller**. The LP cover that opened up into the “sexy” pic of Michael wearing all white and lounging with wildlife. Tigers, I think it was. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/93 "2007-05-09T23:54:50Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Y’all are either way cooler than I was as a kid, or there’s some selective editing going on here! Mine was Michael Jackson, **Thriller**. The LP cover that opened up into the “sexy” pic of Michael wearing all white and lounging with wildlife. Tigers, I think it was. :smack: [/QUOTE] You’re selling yourself short.. that album’s a classic. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/94 "2007-05-10T00:10:02Z")
Frank Zappa’s **Apostrophe** An odd purchase, and not even in a record store, it was in dime store, the only one in a rack full of assorted LPs. I’d bought 45s, but this was my first album purchased. I had no idea who Zappa was. My early teeny self just liked the way he [looked](http://www.google.com/musicl?lid=sOC0Kp0Gh1F&aid=w6gEd0PaSsM&sa=X&oi=music&ct=result) on the cover, and song titles like “Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow”, “St Alphozo’s Pancake Breakfast”, and “Stinkfoot” had a certain kid appeal. Little did I know. That was a life changing day for this wee lass, lemme tell ya. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/95 "2007-05-10T00:12:58Z")
I think the first album I ever bought was Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Greatest Hits. Used. For a quarter. I think the first time I went to the store and paid my own money for a brand-new LP, it was _Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat_. The cantata version. ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/96 "2007-05-10T00:28:53Z")
CD: They Might Be Giants-Flood, I think. Cassette: I’m pretty certain it was True Blue. I remember saving up for it for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/97 "2007-05-10T01:09:03Z")
_The Thin Red Line_ by Glass Tiger, and it was a red cassette. Probably nobody outside of Canada knows who they are. It would have been 1986. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/98 "2007-05-10T01:23:55Z")
[QUOTE=elelle] Frank Zappa’s **Apostrophe** [/QUOTE] I think I love you. I just watched the new “Making Of Apostrophe/Overnite Sensation” DVD last night. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342/99 "2007-05-10T01:42:09Z")
**The Chao Goes Mu** , records were $10 that long ago? :eek: Music wasn’t something I “got” until I was a freshman in high school. My whole childhood I only asked for one record, which I was given, because there was no other music I really wanted to hear on demand. But when I was fourteen it suddenly clicked and I decided I liked music after all. I joined BMG’s music club so I could buy my very first cassettes: Nirvana “Nevermind” Red Hot Chili Peppers “Blood Sugar Sex Magik” Mister Big “Lean Into It” shut up Later on my first CDs were REM “Monster,” Aerosmith “Get A Grip,” and Nirvana “Live From NY.” ---
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[QUOTE=Terrorcotta] I used my allowance to buy the album ‘Meet the Beatles’ in the grocery store no less for something like $1.77. Yup, it was a new release. [/QUOTE] That was my first one too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album-you-bought-for-yourself/403342.md?page=6)