# First album. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 3, 2014, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296 "2014-04-03T22:32:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![80sMusicfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/2acd7d/32.png) [@80sMusicfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sMusicfan)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/1 "2014-04-03T22:32:29Z")
what was the first album you ever purchased with your own money? Since mixed tapes don’t count granted I was a little bit older my first album I ever purchased with my own money was Judas Priest Turbo. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/2 "2014-04-03T22:39:08Z")
Simon & Garfunkel: **Sounds of Silence** ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/3 "2014-04-03T22:39:23Z")
I was obsessed with the song **Indiana Wants Me** , so I spent $3.69 for [this](http://www.bsnpubs.com/motown/rareearth/522.jpg). Still have it. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/4 "2014-04-03T22:40:31Z")
I’m pretty sure my first vinyl LP was the Blues Brothers soundtrack. (I wanted to get the Star Trek soundtrack but the record store didn’t have it.) Either that or the J. Geils Band live album that came out after _Freeze Frame_; not sure which came first. My first CD was Talking Heads’ _True Stories_. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/5 "2014-04-03T22:54:03Z")
KISS’s **Destroyer** ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/6 "2014-04-03T22:55:32Z")
The Clash’s first record. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/7 "2014-04-03T22:56:43Z")
The Beatles **Sgt Pepper** , which had been out about ten years at that point. Always went with the classics. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/8 "2014-04-03T22:59:01Z")
The Beatles _Abbey Road_, closely followed by Grand Funk Railroad’s _Closer to Home_. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/9 "2014-04-03T23:58:23Z")
Van Morrison’s _Hard Nose the Highway_. It was mislabeled, so I got it cheap. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/10 "2014-04-04T00:03:51Z")
Mine’s a four way tie, because when I was 13 my parents let me join that Columbia Records & Tapes Club where you got 12 tapes for a penny. Mom and Dad each chose 4, and I chose: **Van Halen** , _5150_ **Dire Straits** , _Brothers in Arms_ **Sting** , _The Dream of the Blue Turtles_ **The Dream Academy** , _s/t_ ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/11 "2014-04-04T00:07:33Z")
Queen “News of the World” It was pretty new at the time and I was very young, neither of those are true now. **Capt** ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/12 "2014-04-04T00:10:59Z")
_The Beatles 1967-1970,_ the blue one, brand new at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/13 "2014-04-04T00:14:11Z")
It was a single. John Mellencamp’s Wild Night (with Me’shell Ndege Ocello). ETA, that was my first CD, it’s possible there were cassettes before that, but I don’t know. If I did, it wouldn’t have been many. I’m sure I still have the CD though. ---
**Author:** ![4d3fect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/4d3fect/32/9728_2.png) [@4d3fect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4d3fect)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/14 "2014-04-04T00:14:40Z")
Baby. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/15 "2014-04-04T00:18:00Z")
I think it was Lynyrd Skynyrd’s _Gold & Platinum._ ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/16 "2014-04-04T00:33:24Z")
My younger brother & I pooled our allowance money to buy Kiss’ **Hotter Than Hell**. I must have been about seven when we got it, but it had already been a few years old at that point (our older brother already had **Alive** , **Destroyer** and **Love Gun**.) On my own, my very first album was Alice Coopers’ **Welcome to My Nightmare**. None of these albums was at all indicative of any of my future musical tastes. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2014, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/17 "2014-04-04T00:33:33Z")
IIRC, _Synchronicity_. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/18 "2014-04-04T00:50:43Z")
Bought Jesus Christ Superstar and All Things Must Pass at the same time - Christmas money. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/19 "2014-04-04T00:52:13Z")
It was either _Led Zeppelin IV_ or Paula Abdul’s _Forever Your Girl_. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296/20 "2014-04-04T01:01:14Z")
_Led Zeppelin IV_. _Yessongs_ was the second one, for what it’s worth. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-album/685296.md?page=2)