First tape: Arrested Development (I don’t remember the album name)
First Cds: (Bought at the same time) Some random Weird Al album, and some random Green Day album.
That sucked. Except for the Arrested Development. They’re awesome.
1st eight track - Donny Osmond
1st record - Tracy Ullman - You Broke My Heart in 17 Places
1st Tape - Duran Duran - Rio
1st CD - Tracy Bonham - The Burdens of Being Upright
I was thinking of this the other day… I actually found the first album I ever bought. I had some 45s, but I considered them ‘little records’ for little kids. I wanted to be grown-up and have a ‘big record’ of 33 1/2, so I got one. The grand purchase was “C is for Cookie” by Cookie Monster, et al. I was, I dunno… 4 or 5 at the time.
Talk about rocking out.
My sister gave me a cd player for Christmas in 1988 or 89, and the cd by rem… the one with ‘stand’ on it. So that is the first cd I ever had.
1st Vinyl: Monkeys Greatest Hits (OK, my Mom bought it, but I picked it out)
1st Vinyl by my lonesome: Men Without Hats “Safety Dance” 45
1st Tape: Beatles compilation “Rock and Roll Vol.2” (I think?)
1st CD: Story Of the Clash Vol. 1
1st MP3: “Cars” by Fear Factory/Gary Numan (though I officially didn’t “purchase” it, per se…)
Spellbound by Paula Abdul… and only because Spellbound was the song my dance class was doing at the time…
I really didn’t listen to music much when I was younger.
Ok, this is really strange, but I can’t remember buying my own music for many, many years. I was always given 45’s or albums as gifts and even won some as door prizes. Then there was the borrowing and trading that went on so that we didn’t have to actually purchase very much music. I’m thinking that possibly I took birthday money one year and bought a Journey LP. I don’t remember which one. All of my LP’s from that time period were “accidentally” packed up with my friend’s sister’s stuff and moved to Washington state along with all of my friend’s LP’s. (My friend had a better phonograph.)
I think the first cassette I bought was Adam and the Ants - Prince Charming. I had to buy it because they didn’t play the Ants on the radio in St. Louis and I didn’t have MTV.
My first CD was a compilation album that hubby and I picked out just so that we would have something to play on our brand new CD player.
…Thriller. Hey, it was HUGE in 1984, and my sister had given me a $20 gift certificate at a music store (that bought a lot back then…I got the album and something like 6 singles).
And despite the freakish nature of the recording artist, I still think Billie Jean is a cool song. (Anyone notice that the stations playing hits of the 80s skip around playing any music by the man/thing that practically owned the 80s?)
First vinyl: Nazareth - Hair of the Dog
First 8-track: some Ted Nugent
First CD: Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
First Vinyl: Disney’s Disco Duck. Hey! Stop laughing! That was some good shit in 1985 for a 3 year old!
I don’t think I ever bought a cassette.
First CD: Fourth grade… Paula Abdul’s Spellbound. I still have it around here somewhere.
First cassette: Madonna, True Blue and Cyndi Lauper, True Colors, bought at the same time
First CD: Guns 'n Roses, Use Your Illusion II
First mp3: The Kinks, Lola
Twenty dollars DID buy a lot back then. I’m impressed!
I remember my first CD. No vinyls or casettes though. Two and a half years ago…
I bought Marcy Playground (by the band of the same name).
And Yourself or someone like you by Matchbox20.
Evidence of the dichotomy that- no wait. Someone else has already said that. No but my taste has changed since then. Really…though I am feeling a bit nostalgic now…
First vinyl: Stray Cats, Build For Speed
First CD: Yes, Fragile
Built For Speed on vinyl was rendered unplayable a long time ago, and I recently purchased it on CD. What a great record! Isn’t it about time for another rockabilly revival?
First LP: not sure, but I think it was Grieg’s Piano Concerto, Artur Rubinstein on the piano.
First CD: Amahl and the Night Visitors, a one-hour Christmas opera in English by Menotti. The recording was a re-issue of an LP. I didn’t have a CD player at the time. I bought it because I thought it might go permanently out of print. I don’t think it has.
First pre-recorded VHS cassette: Charlie Brown’s Christmas. Some gas station chain was selling them for a reduced price with a fill-up.
First DVD: The Dark Crystal.
You bought the Monkees greatest hits too?! You rock! 
My first album (around '70): Bridge over troubled water - S&G
My first pop CD: Graceland (Paul Simon)
My first classical CD (same time): Schuberts unfinished symphony (Marriner)
And many many many more followed…
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First vinyl LP: Switched on Bach by Walter Carlos. (I loved that stuff when I was eleven.)
First CD: Smooth Noodle Maps by Devo. This was 1990, and it was a new release. However, I ran across a clear red vinyl copy of the album a few weeks later, so I just had to buy that, too!
I don’t remember my first cassette. I haven’t bought many of them, and I’ve never been much of a fan of the format. I’ve got several hundred cassette tapes, but they’re all recordings of my own vinyls or others’ music. I don’t like to purchase cassettes.
Do you really want me to admit that Styx’s The Grand Illusion* was my first LP?*
My first two 45s were C.W. McCall’s “Convoy” and Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”. Pretty diverse tastes for an elementary school kid, eh?
My first vinyl was an Osmond Brothers album. This was followed soon after with Masters Of Reality by Black Sabbath. I was an eclectic little kid.
First CD was Duty Now For The Future by Devo.
My first vinyl was Bat Out Of Hell by of course Meatloaf. I bought it because it had a curse word in it that my Mom actually allowed us to sing along with, it was the loophole in the no cursing rule. My first tape was LA GUNS Cocked and Loaded. My first cd was Dr Hook’s Greatest Hits.
First Tape…
Def Leppard … whatever the one with pour some sugar on me was
also
TMBG … The Pink album
First CD … Black Flag … can’t remember which one now
First Vinyl … June of 44, also, can’t remember which one.