# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-cd-dvd-etc-you-owned/648610/41 "2013-01-29T02:26:13Z")
LP: _Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Greatest Hits_, or some such name. Definitely a CCR compilation. 45: _Another One Bites The Dust_ - Queen Cassette: Don’t recall. Possibly Dio’s _The Last in Line_. VHS: _Batman (1989)_, I think. CD: _Hold Your Fire_ - Rush DVD(s): _Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure_, _Star Trek II_, and _Blue Velvet_. ---
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78: - 45: Probably something by Boston LP: Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk (I was a kid - don’t judge me!) Reel-to-reel: - 8-Track: Only ever got a few of these, one was “Best of Foreigner”, another was “Screaming Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends” (With that name, how could I NOT buy that tape?) Cassette: Only bought a couple of these, I was all about the vinyl. I only remember Roy Buchanan’s, “A Street Called Straight”. CD: I bought my first two CD’s at once: CCR’s, “Cosmo’s Factory” and Steve Vai’s, “Passion and Warfare” SACD: - VHS: There were only a couple I was really excited about. Of those, the earliest one was the much-hated Bakshi’s, “Lord of the Rings.” Oh, and PORN! Wonderful porn! Marvelous porn! Glorious porn! (I was young, and it was before the internet. Don’t judge me!) Laserdisc: - DVD: No idea whatsoever. Got it in 1999 I think, so probably some big effects movie from that time. HD DVD: - Blu-Ray: - ---
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78: n/a 45: The Royal Guardsmen - _Snoopy vs. The Red Baron_ LP: KISS - _Destroyer_ Reel-to-reel: n/a 8-Track: Bachman-Turner Overdrive - _Bachman-Turner Overdrive_ Cassette: Jimi Hendrix - _Are You Experienced/Axis: Bold As Love_ double cassette\* CD: The Clash - _Combat Rock_ and Beastie Boys - _Licensed To Ill_ (bought them both at the same time) SACD: n/a Laserdisc: n/a DVD: _Blazing Saddles_ and _South Park Ep. 1-4_ (bought them both at same time) HD DVD: n/a Blu-Ray: _The Matrix_\* \*I think this is correct but I may later remember that it is wrong. ---
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78: We had some at home, don’t remember, maybe Glenn Miller collection 45: **Manhattan Spiritual** by [Reg Owen](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zz51Xyylpk) 45, that I purchased with my own money: **Snoopy vs. the Red Baron** by The Royal Guardsman. LP: **Graduate Soundtrack** by Simon & Garfunkel LP that I won being the 15th caller at a radio station: **Frampton Comes Alive** Reel-to-reel: n/a 8-Track: **Tormato** by Yes- very under-rated album Cassette: **Greatest Hits: 1967-1970** by the Beatles [Blue Album] CD: **Revolver** by the Beatles MP3 D/L: **Convoy** by CW McColl :o iTunes song: not sure iTunes Album: **Chicago V** VHS: blank tapes to record Jeopardy!, otherwise some porn title DVD: **The Godfather Trilogy** ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-cd-dvd-etc-you-owned/648610/45 "2013-01-29T03:28:37Z")
The first music I bought was “Outlandos D’Amour” by the Police. The first movie I bought was the VHS version of “The Terminator.” ---
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Cassette: Petra: Fired Up CD: Best of Petra DVD: The Matrix VHS: Hoosiers - the McDonald’s copy they included/sold for awhile. ---
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78: N/A 45: N/A LP: **J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos** Reel-to-reel: N/A 8-Track: N/A Cassette: **Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring** CD: **Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15** SACD: **Mahler: Symphony No. 3** Laserdisc: N/A/ DVD: **Monty Python, The Complete Series** HD DVD: Blu-Ray: **Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Mariinsky Theatre** ---
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I don’t remember the first 45 I bought. The first album I bought was a KTel compliation. The first eight-track was by Kansas. Probably a Greatest Hits (although they really only had two hits). I had a VCR for a long time before I ever bought a videotape. I always rented. But I was in a comic book store and they had a collection of old Ub Iwerks cartoons in their bargain bin so I bought it. The first CD I bought was a bargain bin Mozart so I could test my new CD player. I got some free DVDs as part of a package deal when I bought my first DVD player. But the first DVD I intentionally bought was _Mr Vampire_, a Chinese horror-martial arts-comedy. Technically, the first Bluray I bought was _The Illusionist_ (the French animated one). But I bought it as a DVD/Bluray combo pack on sale for the DVD because I didn’t have a Bluray player yet. The first Blurays I bought after buying a player were _The Lion King_ and _Patton_. ---
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78: n/a 45: n/a LP: **Grieg Piano Concerto, Arthur Rubinstein** Reel-to-reel: **Switched-On Bach** 8-Track: n/a Cassette: **The Best of the Stan Freberg Shows** (bought around 1987) CD: **Amahl and the Night Visitors** (original cast) SACD: n/a VHS: **A Man For All Seasons** (Scofield) (before that I got “A Charlie Brown Christmas” free with x gallons of gas) Laserdisc: **Fantasia** (I never bought a player. I only bought the disc as insurance against Disney never releasing it again.) DVD: **Beany and Cecil: The Special Edition** HD DVD: n/a Blu-Ray: **Becket** and **Fantasia** (I bought Fantasia just before it went back into the vault and included Becket on the same order) ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-cd-dvd-etc-you-owned/648610/50 "2013-01-29T05:24:56Z")
Only thing I know for sure is CD: Andreas Vollenweider’s _ **Book of Roses** _. It’s also the longest lived album in my collection… from day one until today, and I still listen to it. ---
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I don’t remember ever buying any actual records. I know I asked my parents for “Disco Mickey Mouse,” when I was a kid, and I took home my grandfather’s large collection of Bach records, but none of those I actually bought. The first piece of music I remember buying myself was Led Zeppelin IV on cassette. First CD I remember buying is The Bad Examples _Cheap Beer Night_ (they’re a local band.) First CD I got (gifted to me with the Discman) was The Black Crowes _Southern Harmony and Musical Companion_. I don’t recall ever buying any movies, although I’m sure I must have bought DVDs of something in the past. ---
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45:Convoy (I think) LP:Chopin’s Greatest Hits CD:As far as I remember those TV Toon collections are the only CD’s I’ve ever bought for myself. ---
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78: 45: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper LP: 1984 - Van Halen Reel-to-reel: 8-Track: Cassette: Solitude/Solitaire - Peter Cetera CD: To The Extreme - Vanilla Ice (I knew there’d be something embarassing in here!) SACD: Laserdisc: DVD: Zorro (the first Antonio Banderas one) HD DVD: Blu-Ray: ---
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78: (I’m not _that_ old) 45: Young Girl by Gary Puckett & the Union Gap LP (purchased for me): With Love, Bobby by Bobby Sherman LP (purchased by me): You Don’t Mess Around With Jim by Jim Croce Non-Blank 8-Track: Tormato by Yes Non-Blank Cassette: Hitchin’ A Ride by Vanity Fare (a cassette “single”) CD: The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking by Roger Waters and Biograph by Bob Dylan (both purchased on the same day) DVD: The Matrix ---
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I don’t remember most of them, but I remember my first CD. I was a kid in the '80s in the Netherlands and the CD was a Big Deal. A friend of my parents worked on the development at Philips. The CD was _Kinderen voor Kinderen_, Children for Children. They’re children singing songs to raise money for kids in developing countries. The first song was terribly un-PC, we realised many years later… :eek: ---
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78: N/A 45: Don’t Remember LP: _Elton John’s Greatest Hits_ Reel-to-reel: N/A 8-Track: _Goodbye Yellow Brick Road_, Elton John\* Cassette: _Rumours_, Fleetwood Mac CD: _Brothers In Arms_, Dire Straits SACD: ? Laserdisc: N/A DVD: _Contact_ HD DVD: N/A Blu-Ray: Something relatively recent, for my daughter… I think _Captain America_. \*What can I say? EJ was _big_ in the 1970’s. ---
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78: N/A 45: Eddie Grant-Electric Avenue LP: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols Reel-to-reel: N/A 8-Track: N/A Cassette: Zenyatta Mondatta - The Police CD: If I should Fall From Grace with God - The Pogues VHS: Jeeves and Wooster or bootlegs of Doctor Who episodes SACD: n/a Laserdisc: n/a DVD: The Professional HD DVD: Gladiator Blu-Ray: not sure ---
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If you mean by own as, Actually Bought in the store and not hand me downs… 78: The MickyMouse Club singalong thing…with the original mousekateers. 45: Pink Floyd - Another Brick in The Wall part 1, One of These Turns on side b. LP: AC/DC - For Those About to Rock Reel-to-reel: Recoded My Own Stuff 8-Track: Fleetwood Mac - Rumors Cassette: Ratt - Outta the Cellar CD: Return to the Valley of the GoGo’s DVD: Rush R-30 SACD: Laserdisc: HD DVD: Blu-Ray: ---
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78: some Gene Autry cowboy thing 45: **I Want To Hold Your Hand** /Beatles LP: **Meet the Beatles** 8-Track: **Wee Tam** /Incredible String Band Cassette: **The Nightfly** /Donald Fagen CD: **The Lady and the Unicorn** /John Renbourn & **Blue** /Joni Mitchell (bought together to replace my scratched to hell and gone LPs) VHS: **The Point!** DVD: **The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes** ---
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