Your first music purchase?

In My Humble Opinion
1

What was the very first piece of music you bought yourself?
Artist/song(s)/Album title/Format (Vinyl, tape, cd, etc.)
How old were you?

I was somewhere around 7 years old. I bought, with my very own money, a 45 (that’s a two song record for anyone too young to know about them…)with The Beatles’ We Can Work It Out on one side and Day Tripper on the other. Listened to that thing ad nauseum. And when I hear those songs, to this day, I still think of sitting in my “tv room” in front of my parents old record player. I can picture it exactly.

2

Led Zeppelin/ Led Zeppelin 4/ CD/ 16

3

I already had a red and white record player and some dumb kiddie music when I got Elvis Presley’s Hound Dog on a 45.

I would have been about 6 or 7.

4

Nilsson/Coconut/45RPM vinyl

I was 13 years old.

I was a little late getting into rock and roll, my dad was a big band musician and that’s all that was played at our house.

5

A record album of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris. I was fourteen.

That is still the most beautiful album cover I’ve ever seen and both of the pieces are still favorites.

6

J Geils Band/ Freeze Frame
vinyl
I think I was 14 or so

7

I have no idea what my first music purchase was, but my first CD was The Police Synchronicity.

8

Madonna’s True Blue on vinyl.

9

The Wind and the Lion soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith. I used my babysitting money to pay for it.

I’ve been a Goldsmith fan since day one, so it seems.

10

Ten by Pearl Jam/Cassette/13

11

Nirvana : Nevermind

12

Sublime: 40 Oz. To Freedom

Still my favorite after all this time.

13

I was about 11 years old and joined a record club. I remember my first order: it was a Deutsche Grammophon recording of Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G Minor and also Symphony No. 41 in C Major (the “Jupiter” Symphony). The notes in the catalog said that the conductor and the orchestra gave an “inspired reading” of the symphonies.

I was so young and uninformed that I didn’t know that “reading” was used to mean a classical music performance. I was worried that someone would be actually reading out loud some text along with the orchestra. I thought this because in school the teacher had played a record of Peter and the Wolf, a piece for kids by Serge Prokofief, in which a narrator reads a story along with the music. When the Mozart record arrived and contained nothing but pure music, I was so relieved.

14

Vinyl, Shaun Cassidy’s first album.

There’s gotta be an award there for “most pathetic”

15

It was an album by an Aussie band called Madderlake, on vinyl, titled ‘Stillpoint’…1973, and I was 13.

16

Vinyl, something by the MiniPops (a bunch of kids doing covers of pretty much everything from Elvis and the Beatles to Culture Club). In my defense, I was around 6.

17

Yellow Submarine Songtrack - The Beatles
It was on CD, and I bought it back in 1999, I was 14. Now I have over 150 cds.

18

Silverchair, Freak Show, on CD when I was 18. Prior to this I listened to the radio and some of my parents’ collection.

I haven’t listened to the disc in 3 years or so.

19

Ray Charles - You Don’t Know Me - 45RPM. Probably around 1961. Must have cost me about a half a buck, which was a lot of money in those days. I still have it!

My first LP was Dave Brubek’s Take Five around 1966. Think I paid about 3 bucks for it. Still have that one too!

20

My first CD might’ve been The Allman Brothers’ Seven Turns. I’d surely bought tapes before that, but I’m not sure what the first one was.