Yes, bought the cassette when it came out. I think my husband might have got the CD later. I don’t play it any more but I still enjoy most of the songs when I hear them. I always had a soft spot for PYT for some reason. Never liked “The Girl is Mine.” My husband will often play the “Thriller” video on Halloween and I still think it’s really good.
Yes. My dad got it when I was a kid to scare us kids with Thriller the song. Then we got the tape and I have it now and also the CD. I haven’t listened to it in decades though.
Got it through membership in Columbia House record club. Didn’t listen to it very much as the singles were played non-stop on the radio and MTV at the time. Picked it just because it seemed to be one of those albums you were supposed to own.
My album cover had no baby tiger. That pic was on the inside somewhere. Just him in the white suit on the cover. (all based on possible faulty memory, btw)
I liked Off the Wall better.
We actually had it on 8-track, mostly because the vehicle we had at the time (a 1979 Ford Bronco) had an 8-track player. I think I also had it on cassette, but I’m not absolutely certain.
No. I was certainly exposed to it, on radio and MTV.
I’ve never owned anything by any of the Jacksons, though I remember almost buying a 45 of “I’ll Be There”. (I bought a Matchbox car instead.)
I was 12 and bought it on vinyl (probably from our record club)
I had Thriller on tape back in 1983 back when Michael Jackson ruled the Earth.
I have never owned a copy of Thriller.
I bought it on vinyl way back when, and I’m pretty sure it’s still up on the shelf in the closet with all the rest of my albums now.
My grandparents brought my brother and I cassette tapes home from their annual winter vacation in Arizona. I got Thriller, my brother got the Lionel Ritchie album popular at the same time.
I was listening to David Bowie’s back catalouge and synthesizer bands from the UK at the time.
My brother would have been around 10, I think he was just entering his ZZTop (and basically ONLY ZZ top) phase.
My opinion of MJ… didn’t like the music, didn’t like the music or the way it was overplayed, didn’t like him, the music, or the overplaying, became completely disgusted with him.
Both myself and sig, o. change channel, turn music off, or leave the room when it comes on.
Never owned it. Listened to it all the way through once back when it was still at the top of the charts and could not connect what I was hearing with the levels of sales it was generating (though granted, I was much more into Def Leppard at the time).
Plus, I was always more of a Prince fan, and I was pissed that Thriller was keeping 1999 out of the number one slot.
I’ve never owned it, but I have a few tracks on a Michael Jackson greatest hits album. I almost bought it on cd when I saw it at a thrift store, but couldn’t bring myself to pay a dollar for it.
I haven’t, but when I start my collection of dreary, middle-of-road nothing pop music, it’ll be first cab off the rank.
It was one of my first records (I was around 7), and I loved it then. I wouldn’t listen to the album now, but I’ll sing along to Billie Jean when it comes on the radio.
My sister had the record when we were kids. I’ve never owned a copy myself. I do have all the songs on my spotify playlist if that counts.
No, but I do have The Essential Michael Jackson, which has like 5 or 6 Thriller album songs on it.
Yeah in the last stages of buying stuff on vinyl.
Born roughly five years after the album was released and never owned it ever. I did have a Michael Jackson greatest hits CD which I lent to a high school classmate who never did return it.
When Michael Jackson died in 2009, my older sister bought it on CD and it’s lying around somewhere.
Got it the year it came out in 82’ on vinyl. I didn’t know anyone who owned CD player back then.
I always thougt the title track “Thriller” was a weak song. Made especially corny with the Vincent Price voiceover.