# Your first music purchase? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 3, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674 "2003-08-03T04:00:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/1 "2003-08-03T04:00:48Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![CaptBushido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@CaptBushido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptBushido)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/2 "2003-08-03T04:35:17Z")
Led Zeppelin/ Led Zeppelin 4/ CD/ 16 ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/3 "2003-08-03T04:38:43Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/4 "2003-08-03T04:40:03Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/5 "2003-08-03T04:41:45Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/6 "2003-08-03T04:43:01Z")
J Geils Band/ Freeze Frame vinyl I think I was 14 or so ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/7 "2003-08-03T04:50:50Z")
I have no idea what my first music purchase was, but my first CD was The Police _Synchronicity_. ---
**Author:** ![shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/8 "2003-08-03T04:54:33Z")
Madonna’s _True Blue_ on vinyl. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/9 "2003-08-03T05:21:10Z")
_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. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/10 "2003-08-03T05:27:20Z")
_Ten_ by Pearl Jam/Cassette/13 ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/11 "2003-08-03T05:32:07Z")
Nirvana : Nevermind ---
**Author:** ![ForumBot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee59a6/32.png) [@ForumBot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ForumBot)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/12 "2003-08-03T05:39:36Z")
Sublime: 40 Oz. To Freedom Still my favorite after all this time. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/13 "2003-08-03T05:47:30Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/14 "2003-08-03T06:13:09Z")
Vinyl, Shaun Cassidy’s first album. There’s gotta be an award there for “most pathetic” ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/15 "2003-08-03T06:14:37Z")
It was an album by an Aussie band called Madderlake, on vinyl, titled ‘Stillpoint’…1973, and I was 13. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/16 "2003-08-03T06:30:17Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/17 "2003-08-03T06:31:06Z")
_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. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/18 "2003-08-03T07:00:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/19 "2003-08-03T07:03:01Z")
**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! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2003, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/20 "2003-08-03T07:06:58Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674.md?page=2)