# What was the first (CD, DVD, etc.) you owned? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 28, 2013, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-cd-dvd-etc-you-owned/648610 "2013-01-28T14:39:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [January 28, 2013, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-cd-dvd-etc-you-owned/648610/1 "2013-01-28T14:39:22Z")
78: n/a 45: **Sugar, Sugar by The Archies** LP: **I Think, Therefore I Am, by R. Dean Taylor** Reel-to-reel: **Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme, by Simon and Garfunkel** 8-Track: Some bootleg **Led Zeppelin** Cassette: ? CD: **Reg Strikes Back, by Elton John** SACD: n/a Laserdisc: n/a DVD: **Anger Management** HD DVD: n/a Blu-Ray: n/a **BLANK VERSION TO COPY/PASTE:** 78: 45: LP: Reel-to-reel: 8-Track: Cassette: CD: SACD: Laserdisc: DVD: HD DVD: Blu-Ray: ---
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VHS: Not sure, but one of the following: **The Thing** , **Metropolis** , **Horrible Horror** (a pre-MST3K and pre-It Came From Hollywood sendup of bad horror films, starring Zacherly) DVD: **The Lost World** (silent version) ---
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45: “Parents Just Don’t Understand” by DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince. LP: Weird Al “in 3D” Cassette: Beastie Boys “License to Ill” CD: The Doors movie soundtrack Laserdisc: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (and just bought it 2 months ago at a Goodwill) DVD: A Christmas Story Blu-Ray: Up ---
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Cassette: INXS Listen like Thieves CD: C & C music factory Gonna Make You Sweat DVD: Lord of the Rings extended edition Trilogy Blu-Ray: Game of Thrones season 1 ---
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45: Steve Martin’s _King Tut_ LP (of the ones I personally selected): the soundtrack to _Star Wars_ First CD: The soundtrack to Ken Burns’ _The Civil War_, which was a gift along with the CD player. That I selected: the Broadway cast recording of Les Mis. VHS: No idea, though _Harold and Maude_ was one of if the not the earliest one. DVD: _The Lion in Winter_ ---
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45: Alice Cooper - No more mr. nice guy LP: Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge over troubled water Reel-to-reel: na 8-Track: na Cassette: na CD: Schubert’s Unfinished symphony SACD: na Laserdisc: na DVD: funny, more recent than the others but I haven’t got a clue HD DVD: na Blu-Ray: na ---
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45 or LP record: the only one I ever owned all by myself was a 45 they gave me at Showbiz Pizza when I had my birthday party there. Other records were more for my sister than for me, but I’d listen to them also (e.g., Michael Jackson’s _Thriller_). Cassette tape: _Funky Divas_, En Vogue CD: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ Greatest Hits DVD: don’t remember Digital download album: _Animal_, Ke$ha ---
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78: First ones I kept were by Jane Russell on a British label 45: Beatles Get Back ca 1969 LP: Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da Vida ca 1969 Reel-to-reel: Tons and tons of blanks only ca 1971 8-Track: Led Zepplin Houses Of The Holy ca 1973 Cassette: IRS Sampler ca 1980 CD: The Fixx The Fixx ca 1982 SACD: never Laserdisc: Treasure Of the Sierra Madre ca 1983 DVD: Gumby anthology ca 2005 HD DVD: never Blu-Ray: never and probably never will ---
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78: n/a 45: Mrs. Robinson - S&G LP: A Night At The Opera - Queen Reel-to-reel: n/a 8-Track: Don’t recall. I used to record my own from LPs. Cassette: Ditto. CD: No idea. Maybe “Who’s Next.” SACD: n/a (In fact I had to look up what this even means.) Laserdisc: n/a DVD: I don’t think I’ve ever bought one by myself, for myself. HD DVD: Ditto. Blu-Ray: Ditto. ---
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Cassette: Probably some Christian Rock, Petra or something like it. (Amy Grant or Michael W Smith?) It didn’t make a big impression, as I was used to borrowing my sister’s and probably had allowance to spend at the time I wanted something that wasn’t in her collection. I do remember the first cassette I got after I moved out to Uni - “Forgiven not Forgotten” by the Corrs. CD: Love & Gravity, Blackhawk. (Okay, I also got a Lorrie Morgan greatest hits CD on the same trip to the store, but I’m declaring the Blackhawk officially the first.) DVD: Sportsnight box set iTunes album: Firefly soundtrack. (It might have been someone on here who let me know it was available on iTunes.) ---
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78 – some children’s record; I don’t recall which 45 – “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha haaa!” – Napoleon XIV LP – “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” – I forget who. CD – “Dawgwood” – David Grisman Quartet (given to me by a coworker). iTunes Song – “Rosalita” – Bruce Springsteen. iTunes Album – “Third” – Soft Machine. ---
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8-track: Some book on tape. Possibly Teddy Rupskin related. Cassette: One of Jeff Foxworthy’s comedy tapes. CD: one of Travis Tritts. Vhs: Nightmare on Elm Street. DVD: ghostbusters, born in east L.a., and a couple of others I bought the same day I got my first DVD player. ---
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Cassette: Synchonicty by The Police. CD: Syd Barrett’s box set, _Crazy Diamond_. It wasn’t available in cassette (at least at the shop I found it at,) and I didn’t have a CD player at the time, so I actually bought it in CD before I had a CD player! DVD: LOTR: FOTR. ---
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78:N/A 45:don’t remember LP:something by K-Tel? Reel-to-reel:N/A 8-Track:Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John Cassette: don’t remember CD:All The Best by Paul McCartney SACD:N/A Laserdisc:Titanic DVD:Lord of the Rings:Fellowship Of The Ring box set? HD DVD:N/A Blu-Ray: N/A ---
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Ones I’ve never personally owned not listed. 45: Some random novelty single I won at a children’s activity thing in St John’s. Never listened to it, because nobody I knew had one of those spacer things so the disk could stay on a turntable not created specifically for 45s…Don’t think I bothered bringing it home when we went back to Grand Falls. Cassette: Debbie Gibson, Out of the Blue CD: The Beatles, Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band DVD: The unremastered Robotech box set vol 1. I’ve never purchased from iTunes, but my first purchased (well, it was a freebie from some offer or another, but, legitimately downloaded) mp3s were by Molotov…Frijolero and another couple tracks off of Dance and Dense Denso (which I now have complete). Why no VHS or Betamax? (Akira and ‘never owned’, respectively.) ---
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CD: AC/DC _Back in Black_ and Whitesnake _Whitesnake_ DVD: _Pitch Black_ Blu-Ray: _Star Trek_ ---
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78: none 45: can’t remember LP: not sure - probably the first Partridge Family album (hey, I was seven or eight at the time) Reel-to-reel: none 8-Track: none Cassette: assuming blank ones don’t count, probably The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (the LP version, not the original radio version, although I bought that as well once) CD: Something classical - by Bizet, I think SACD: none Laserdisc: none DVD: not sure - probably some shovelware like “NASA: The First 25 Years” HD DVD: none Blu-Ray: again, not sure; it might have been The Simpsons Movie ---
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LP “Every Picture Tells a Story” Rod Stewert. 45 can’t recall, something from 70 or 71 though CD “Bat Out of Hell” Meatloaf, to replace my LP that developed a skip Cassette “Autoamerican” Blondie got a record player in 1970 didn’t get a cassette untill after college(with my first car). VHS “Jane Fonda’s Workout Tape” For my wife, can’t recall mine. DVD not sure may have been “Rocky Horror Picture Show” ---
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45: Barry McGuire “Eve of Destruction”. 8 track Uriah Heep “Demons and Wizards” CDs Kinks “Word of Mouth” Tina Turner “Private Dancer” LP John Entwhistle “Mad Dog” VHS recorded overnight/time shift “Adventures of Mark Twain” Fredric March LD Roxy Music “The High Road” DVD Muddy Waters “Live at the Chicago Blues Festival” ---
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The ones I can remember- Cassette: Milli Vanilli CD: Soul Asylum DVD: Toy Story iTunes: The Shins Napster: Sir Mixalot BitTorrent: Mad Men S1 ??? some doubt here [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-cd-dvd-etc-you-owned/648610.md?page=2)