I can’t actually think of a clearer way of phrasing that question. Other than asking the approximate year, what act made you make the move, etc.
'87 or '88, when it was clear they were going to stop pressing vinyl.
I actually went from LP to cassette tape to CD. In the early 80s I was in high school, cassettes were portable. “Ghettoblasters” made their appearance as did walkmans.
I got my first cd player in 1986. However, not every album was released on CD. Also, CDs were expensive, $15.00 was standard in 1980’s dollars. I’d say by about 1990 or so, I stopped buying records. I still bought cassettes up until the mid 90s as I didn’t have a CD player in my car.
I had vinyl for my kid stuff like the Sesame Street and Mary Poppins albums. In 1985 at 11 I bought my first tape, Yellow Submarine. Then in 1988 I bought my first CD, the White Album.
- I can still remember the very first CD I bought. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA.
I still bought vinyl, because not everything I wanted was released on CD, but CD became my first choice pretty much as soon as the technology became available.
Mid-80’s. I bought Warren Zevon’s Excitable Boy.
While I’ve joined the 21st century and buy music online and listen to CDs in the car etc etc I still have most of my vinyl as well as my turntable–and I still use it.
Between high school in the late 50’s until the late 80’s I collected roughly 1000 (mostly jazz) LP’s which I still own and have the equipment to play – but seldom do. When I got a vehicle with a cassette deck in 1987 I began buying tapes and acquired several hundred, with a fair number of them being dupes of things I had on LP. Then a year or two later (roughly 1989) we got a CD player and have acquired in the hundreds of them, again with some repeats of the favorites I had originally on LP (and on tape). It’s been a good while since I bought any records of any kind, preferring to listen to the Real Audio version of radio stations that play jazz. For a while, before MP3’s got to be the thing, I collected several thousand MIDI files and still have them. I’ll listen to them every now and then.
That’s more than you asked, but there it is.
Not until around 1990 or so. The last album I bought on LP was Paul Simon’s Rhythm of the Saints. Actually, I have purchased a couple of Pearl Jam & Nirvana albums on LP since then, but those were purchased more as collectables…I have them all on CD as well.
88’ or 89’ somewhere around there… As others have said I too went from LP to Cassette to CD…The transition was slow - I remember looking at the new CD players at JC Penny for $300 bucks and at that time it was astronomical…but very Rad at the same time.
Sometime in 1992. I bought a CD of Pink Floyd playing Interstellar Overdrive taken from Tonight Let’s all Make Love in London. I didn’t even own a CD player yet. Prior to that, everything I listened to was on tape. Mmmmm, new tape smell.
1985 or 86. I bought a new rack stereo system, with CD. First one I bought to try it out was Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here.
I cut over from LPs early to Cassettes and CDs. It was in 1985. It was good timing for me, I had less than 30 albums and I had joined the Navy so LPs made no sense to purchase. Pink Floyd’s “Wish You were Here” and “Yes Songs” by Yes were my first two CDs.
Jim
That’s how I transitioned too. USed to have boxes and boxes of cassettes. I worked at a record store (Turtles) in 1985 and when I started working there, we had maybe two rows of CDs and the rest of the store was all LPs with cassettes lining the walls. Shipments were large heavy boxes of LPs to stock. Then the product mix gradually started changing. By 1990-ish, most stores were almost all CDs (and cassettes which were still popular, portable CD players were still kinda new) with maybe one bin of LPs in the back (mostly urban and dance stuff).
I can’t remember specifically when I switched promarily to CDs (gosh, I’m trying to remeber my first CD player and I can’t, must have been the acid). Probably sometime around 1990. But I’d still get cassettes too (mostly promos from the labels) to play in my car. Being able to get free CD promos from the labels was part of my motivation fro switching.
I didn’t start buying CDs until 1996, when I got my first computer. Before then I didn’t even own a CD player.
I don’t actually remember. I had a turntable at university, but my next digs were too small. Sometime along the way, I got a CD player, and that was that.
My transition was from 8-tracks in the late 70s to cassettes in the early 80s to CDs in the mid-80s. (Except for indie records, which didn’t start coming available on CD until late in the 80s. Strictly vinyl for that stuff.)
In '86 I roomed with a classmate who had a CD player so I started buying a few CDs. My first was Bob Marley’s Legend, as I recall. I remember being blown away by the sound quality as compared with scratchy records or hissing tapes. It seemed like you were getting a live performance in your living room.
I bought my own CD player in '87 or '88 as part of a new component system and never looked back.
I’ve never had much of a memory for dates, but if it helps the first CD I bought was Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem.
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I bought my first CD player in early 1984. It was the very first model Philips ever made, and I remember having to explain to just about everybody who saw it what it was. I got it because a (then) colleague of mine had a contact at the Philips factory and could get them cheap.