What was your first album/CD purchase?

In My Humble Opinion
1

Soome folks over in IMHO are discussing what turned them on to “their music.” Along those lines, what is the first recorded music you bought?

For me, Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line
For sis, Iron Butterfly - Innagaddadvida

2

Yeah, I’m sure that’s misspelled, but if I tried to correct it, I’d undoubtedly just misspell it a different way.

3

um… the first CD I bought was Smash by The Offspring.

The first tape I bought was Big Shiny Tunes

4

I started to amass CDs before I got a CD player. By the time I got one, I had 6 CDs. The FIRST of which was Alice Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies.

I have no idea what my first tape or vinyl purchase was.

5

I was in the sixth grade. A mere lad. It was 1969. What did I know.
So I bought Disraeli Gears by Cream. Now I’ve got at copy of it on CD. And I still give it a listen every now and again.

Dave

6

First vinyl: A Day at the Races (Queen)
First CD: Bros. in Arms (Dire Straits - I promptly ruined my speakers with the intro. to Money for Nothing).

7

LP & CD: Chariots of Fire soundtrack (though don’t listen to either much anymore)
Tape: Something classical, but can’t remember

8

vinyl - Muppets Saturday Night Fever thing
tape - Aerosmith Toys in the Attic (I think)
CD - Ozzy No More Tears

9

cd Jethro Tull Crest of a Knave
Don’t remember the others

10

Vinyl LP: Steppenwolf Live
CD: Special Beat Service

11

First vinyl - KISS - Alive 1975?
Last vinyl (I recall this passing of an era) - Paul McCartney - All My Best
First CD - I’m having a hard time remembering, but it may have been The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)

12

12" single of Rapper’s Delight.

Now I can’t stand most rap music. 'Cept the stuff I like.

Goin down, down baby your street in a Range Rover
Street sweeper baby, ready to let it go
Shimmy, shimmy coco puffs listen to me now
Light it up and take a puff
Pass it to me now

This is my interpretation, your actual words may vary.

13

Wow, I didn’t think this would task my memory so. But I think it was:

First vinyl: The Clash - London Calling
First cassette: The Grateful Dead - American Beauty
First CD: U2 - The Joshua Tree

14

Devo, Freedom of Choice, on vinyl, 1980. I was ten.

15

Oh goody, a chance to show my age. My first music purchase (please bear in mind I was 11 at the time) was a 45 of Billy, Don’t Be A Hero by Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods. I assure you, my taste has improved with age!

16

I purchased two albums simultaneously for my first brush with musical commerce: “Destroyer” by Kiss and “Le Freak” (featuring the hit song “Freak Out”) by Chic. Early evidence of a dichotomy that even today rules my brain.

17

First LP was Def Leppard Pyromania
First Tape was Dire Straits Brothers in Arms
First CD was Scorpions Blackout (I think)

18

First 45: Purple People Eater, by Sheb Wooley 197? (Hey! We’re cousins!)

First LP: Queens Greatest Hits, 1982

First CD: Melissa Etheridge, Melissa Etheridge

And I hate cassettes.

19

First CD: Iron Maiden, Somewhere in Time

20

I don’t remember the first vinyl I bought, but my first CD was The Police Synchronicity.