# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-cd-dvd-etc-you-owned/648610/61 "2013-01-31T04:52:55Z")
LP? The Irish Rovers ["All Hung Up](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Hung_Up)". Hey, I was 8! CD? Kate Bush’s “The Kick Inside”. Amusingly, the actual CD had the name of the album wrong, as just “Kick Inside”. ---
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I can’t remember the first DVD that I ever got even though I know that I still have it, but I do remember the first CD that I ever got. I believe that it was the CD that came with my copy of the autobiography that one of my most favorite female singers wrote named Nickel Dreams. I have been a fan of Tanya Tucker ever since 1991. 🙂 🙂 🙂 God bless you and her always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Holly ---
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45: **Heart** , Crazy on You LP: **Blondie** , Autoamerican Cassette: **Hall & Oats** , H2O CD: **Pink Floyd** , Momentary Lapse of Reason DVD: **Blade Runner Director’s Cut** mp3: **Pink Floyd** , a bunch of live bootlegs in the original Napster days. Ah, the joys of running an all night downloading session on dial up modem only to have a roommate pick up the other line and disconnect me. No smart restart of partial files back then younguns! ---
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78: inherited a box of old showtunes from a dead relative, which I planned to sell on eBay but never got around to it. 45: can’t recall – probably “Pac-Man Fever” by Buckner & Garcia. LP: Blondie “The Best of Blondie” Reel-to-reel: n/a 8-Track: n/a Cassette: “The Road to Freedom” by L. Ron Hubbard & Friends, stolen from the Scientology Center after taking their stupid personality test. CD: “Holst: The Planets” SACD: n/a mp3 (Napster): Burzum “Det Som Engang Var” mp3 (legal): Heart “City’s Burning” VHS: “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (1990 movie) Laserdisc: n/a DVD: “To Live and Die in L.A.” HD DVD: n/a Blu-Ray: n/a ---
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78: N/A 45: Hungry Heart - **Bruce Springsteen** LP: Discovery - **ELO** Reel-to-reel:N/A 8-Track: N/A Cassette: The Wall - **Pink Floyd** CD: Making Movies - **Dire Straits** and Born to Run **Bruce Springsteen** SACD: N/A Laserdisc: N/A DVD: Goodfellas (so old it was single layered, double sided disc) HD DVD: N/A Blu-Ray: Goodfellas (had to replace the DVD) ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-cd-dvd-etc-you-owned/648610/66 "2013-02-01T19:23:21Z")
78: N/A 45: Convoy by CW McCall (1974) LP: KTEL’s Fantastic compilation album (Christmas, 1973) Reel-to-reel: NA 8-Track: NA Cassette: The Motels - All Four One CD: Sgt. Peppers / Beach Boys Endless Summer / Eagles GH (same day) VHS: Rain Man (I’m guessing – part of RCA club) Laserdisc: E.T. or possibly Terminator 2 DVD: Don’t recall HD DVD: N/A Blu-Ray: Monster’s Inc. was given away in our office 3D Blu-Ray: Hubble Telescope documentary ---
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> [@JohnT](#): > > A couple of categories that weren’t mentioned: > > Napster download > iTunes purchase I never used Napster. I have used iTunes; perhaps there should be separate entries for music (Trace Adkins’s “Til the Last Shot’s Fired”, right after I heard him sing it at a National Memorial Day concert) and movies (none). Was any music ever released commercially on MiniDiscs in the USA? I owned a portable MD recorder at one point; my car didn’t have a CD player, but the stereo system did have an auxiliary input jack, and I had worn the cassette player out (the second car I had done that to, mind you), so I recorded my music onto MDs and played them with an external player. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-cd-dvd-etc-you-owned/648610/68 "2013-02-01T22:37:03Z")
45–Heartbreak Hotel—Elvis ---
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> [@JohnT](#): > > A couple of categories that weren’t mentioned: > > Napster download > iTunes purchase > [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > I have used iTunes; perhaps there should be separate entries for music (Trace Adkins’s “Til the Last Shot’s Fired”, right after I heard him sing it at a National Memorial Day concert) and movies (none). Good ideas. Here’s my revised list (with corrections). 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** (tie. I bought Fantasia just before it went back into the vault and included Becket on the same order) paid d/l mp3 track/album: **March Past of the Kitchen Utensils, from "Incidental music for ‘The Wasps’** by Aristophanes", by Vaughan Williams, from Amazon. paid d/l video: n/a I don’t know if we really want to get into separate legal sites, as well as BitTorrent and pre-legal Napster. ---
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78: n/a 45: Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - The Tracks of My Tears LP: Elvis Presley - Elvis’ Golden Records Reel-to-reel: n/a 8-Track: n/a Cassette: Queen - Live Killers CD: Husker Du - Flip Your Wig VHS: The Breakfast Club SACD: n/a Laserdisc: n/a DVD: The Last Dragon & Kentucky Fried Movie (bought them at the same time; neither held up and I sold them both almost immediately) HD DVD: n/a Blu-Ray: Chungking Express ---
**Author:** ![James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2013, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-cd-dvd-etc-you-owned/648610/71 "2013-02-02T14:10:26Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > I have used iTunes; perhaps there should be separate entries for music (Trace Adkins’s “Til the Last Shot’s Fired”, right after I heard him sing it at a National Memorial Day concert) and movies (none). I love that song! 🙂 🙂 🙂 God bless you and Trace always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Holly (a day one fan of him) ---
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It’s fun reading these posts and thinking: “Wow, that poster’s got to be my age!” ---
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78: n/a 45: Might have been Convoy. Might have been My Little Town. LP: Touche’ Turtle. My mom must have bought it for me, I don’t think I’d heard of him before I had the record. Reel-to-reel: n/a 8-Track: Eagles Greatest hits or maybe Beach Boys (I mostly don’t even like the Eagles or the Beach Boys) Cassette: Taped albums, never bought a pre-recorded cassette that I recall. CD: Surfing with the Alien, Joe Satriani. (Bought before I had a CD player, and had a friend tape it for me.) SACD: n/a Laserdisc: n/a DVD: nothing memorable HD DVD: n/a Blu-Ray: nothing memorable ---
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78: don’t think I’ve ever had the pleasure 45: don’t remember LP: I’m almost certain it was some movie theme collection done by some no-name orchestra. Reel-to-reel: nope 8-Track: probably the _Empire Strikes Back_ soundtrack Cassette: probably [Goofy Gold](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=35002) CD: bought Pink Floyd’s _Animals_ and Beethoven’s Ninth (Vienna Phil., von Karajan conducting) at the same time SACD: nope Laserdisc: Star Wars “faces” set, which I bought with a used LD player DVD: bought several the first day: _The Simpsons_ season 1, _Star Trek: The Motion Picture_ director’s cut, _American Beauty_, and _The Conversation_ are the ones I still have. HD DVD: nope Blu-Ray: nope ---
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Mostly I don’t remember, but the first VHS tapes I had were collections of \*Schoolhouse Rock: History \*and and _Grammar Rock._ Now I have them on DVD. ---
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1st CD was Abba greatest hits bought from Columbia. ---
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78: I vaguely recall having some Disney 78s when I was like 5 45: don’t remember, possibly “De Do Do Do De Da Da Da” by **The Police** LP: _Back in Black_ by **AC/DC** Reel-to-reel: n/a 8-Track: _Parallel Lines_ by **Blondie** Cassette: don’t remember CD: _Not of This Earth_ by **Joe Satriani** SACD: n/a Laserdisc: n/a DVD: don’t remember HD DVD: n/a Blu-Ray: n/a ---
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78: N/A 45: Too long ago to remember LP:Too long ago to remember Reel-to-reel: N/A 8-Track: N/A Cassette: Too long ago to remember CD: Partridge Family and Monkees greatest hits (bought them at the same time) SACD: don’t even know what this is… Laserdisc: N/A DVD: Don’t remember HD DVD: N/A Blu-Ray: N/A ---
**Author:** ![Musicman625](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Musicman625](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicman625)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2013, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-cd-dvd-etc-you-owned/648610/79 "2013-02-09T00:37:02Z")
\*\*45: I Want To Hold Your Hand / I Saw Her Standing There - The Beatles LP: Meet The Beatles 8-Track: Livin’ the Blues - Canned Heat, and Big Brother and The Holding Company (same time) Reel-to-Reel: (all quadrophonic editions) On the Threshold of a Dream - Moody Blues; War Child - Jethro Tull, and Stormbringer - Deep Purple (all at the same time) Cassette: Close To the Edge - Yes VHS: A Clockwork Orange CD: Led Zeppelin 1 DVD-A / DTS: In Absentia - Porcupine Tree SACD: Avalon - Roxy Music\*\* ---
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78: N/A 45: Mellow Yellow, Donovan LP: Rubber Soul, Beatles Reel-to-reel: N/A 8-Track: Band On the Run, Paul McCartney & Wings (This was my first and last 8 track. Wretched format.) Cassette: Not sure. Could have been something called, “Dancing’s Greatest Hits” (included One Night in Bangkok and Puttin’ On the Ritz) or a Miami Vice soundtrack. CD: Midnight On the Water, David Bromberg SACD: N/A Laserdisc: N/A DVD: The Patriot ( The one with Mel Gibson) HD DVD: N/A Blu-Ray: N/A Downloaded song: Still the One, Orleans Downloaded Album: Maria Muldaur, Maria Muldaur Downloaded Movie: Tropic Thunder [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-cd-dvd-etc-you-owned/648610.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-cd-dvd-etc-you-owned/648610.md?page=5)