Muscle of Love by alice Cooper,
The Wall. I was probably 11, and was pretty sure that this was absolutely the coolest album that ever existed. I’ve since revised my opinion, but back then (remember that disco was still very popular) I couldn’t believe how great that double album was.
hug
I love anyone who loves Sinead.
Edited to add: currently in the CD player in my car is a mix of my favorite Sinead songs. I could sing that stuff all day. Saw her in concert in 1990.
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.
Simon & Garfunkel, Sounds of Silence. I still have it.
The Doors. I still own it, although it is worn thin.
The Beatles, Rubber Soul. My sister and I went together on it. The first album I remember buying for myself was the original Crosby, Stills & Nash. I paid $1.50 for it, full price. Man, those were the days.
Olivia Newton-John’s “Greatest Hits” Volume 2.
Shut up. 
I was only seven and had saved my 50c pocket money FOREVER to get it.
Vinyl: Tony Basil’s “Mickey” single (this was, btw, the only vinyl I ever owned.)
Tape: Either the Rocky soundtrack or Tone Loc’s “Loc’ed After Dark” (don’t remember if my mom bought me the Rocky soundtrack or I bought it)
CD: Steve Miller Band’s “The Best of 1968-1973”
My first record would have been A New World Record - ELO.
I never bought albums. I went straight to CDs. My first purchase was a CD of William Byrd’s three masses.
I used the word “album” intentionally because it doesn’t specifically imply a medium. Albums are released on record (vinyl), cassette, CD, etc.
Neither does record (an abbreviation of recording).
Which is why I said “vinyl” right after in parentheses. I hear the term “record” to mean an album on vinyl more often than to mean any other medium, though.
(For example, what medium does a record player play?)
The first vinyl record album I purchased for myself was “Beatles '65”, at the Moffett Field NAS PX. I think it cost $2.50.
I bought four records at once:
Styx: Kilroy was Here, The Grand Illusion
Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells, Ommadawn
that got the ball rolling. I still have 400 vinyl record albums
Another Beatle buyer here. The Red album, in my case, on cassette. This was in 1983, I think. I would have been 11.
My first CD was the White Album. That time it was a conscious decision of “What will my first CD be?”
Vinyl – Elvis’s Golden Records. 1956 or 1957, somewhere around there. I still have it. Or rather, my daughter does. She takes better care of vinyl than I do.
Album 1 - Mini Pops
Album 2: Thriller
Album 3- Duran Duran
Dark Side Of The Moon.
I had no idea what I was buying. I was 15 and under the impression that as a teen-ager, I was supposed to be really interested in music and spend any spare cash on cool record albums.
I bought it because I liked the cover.