The Beatles Red Album. The records were red vinyl. I still have it, and the matching Blue Album, as well.
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?
Green Tambourine (by the Lemon Pipers) was my second album. I think it was $1.27 at the Thrifty Drug Store.
Pretty sure mine was Let’s Get Small by Steve Martin
or possibly Saturday Night Fever
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. 
First album I bought for myself: Synchronicity (on cassette).
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.
C’est Si Bon!
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…
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).
Queen’s A Night At The Opera, on vinyl.
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:
You’re selling yourself short… that album’s a classic.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
I think I love you.
I just watched the new “Making Of Apostrophe/Overnite Sensation” DVD last night.
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.”
That was my first one too.