First album you bought for yourself?

[elelle]

@Frylock

I believe that might have been the album “Our Finest Flowers” by the Residents. I was sixteen, had just got my first paycheck, was just starting to understand there was music in the world that I could enjoy, and so decided to go find something at the music store that I liked that I had never heard of. (“Never heard of” was of course a very broad category.)

Shuffling through the "R"s (a randomly chosen letter) I came across an album whose cover art I liked or something. (I don’t really know why I picked it. To be honest, it just seemed to “call to me.” I know that’s silly.)

This was back when a lot of music stores would let you listen to their CDs at little kiosks (do any still do this?) so I took it over, thought the music odd but potentially intriguing. So I bought the CD.

And it has been one of my absolute favorite CDs, by one of my absolute favorite groups, during the entire thirteen years* ever since.

*yeesh

I love this because it echoes my way above post; just a kid, lookin’ around, coming upon a fantastically great artist, by serindipity, and it just changes your direction in life; did at least for me. Zappa, and The Residents, too, just blew the shutters right wide open.

[What_the]

It was either **The Monkees ** Headquarters or The Dark Shadows Soundtrack

[Sarahfeena]

@Kalhoun

I did that with “I Got You Babe”. Played it until my parents wanted to wing it out a window.

My mother claimed that “Another One Bites The Dust” by Queen was killing her plants. I think she just wanted me to never. play. it. again. EVER.

[Kalhoun]

@Zambini57

I love that song.

Blibby bloop blooby, nibby nabba nooby la la la lo lo
sabba sooby sabba dooby abba dabba hey hey lo lo
Chabba woobie dabba doobie abba dabba early mornin’ singin’ song.

Death to Zambini57 . This is gonna leave an indelible mark in my brain.

[Stratocaster]

First? Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player. I still love that album.

By far, I have bought more Beatles than anything else, whether the medium was vinyl, 8-track, CD, cassette, or whatever comes next. (Kay: This is gonna replace the CD soon, so I’ll have to buy the White Album again… Ah…)