# 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:** 19\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![rodmunch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@rodmunch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rodmunch)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/81 "2003-08-11T12:40:18Z")
megadeth - youthanasia - cd - 13/14 ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/82 "2003-08-11T12:45:09Z")
Tape cassette (never had a record player of my own), Moussorgsky’s _Pictures at an Exhibition_. Still have it. I think I was fourteen at the time, which would make it :: cough :: :: cough :: [sub]1977[/sub] :: cough :: ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/83 "2003-08-11T13:18:19Z")
First album purchased with my own money: A Day At the Races (Queen) First CD purchase: Dires Straits (Dire Straits) ---
**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/84 "2003-08-11T17:33:00Z")
My first purchase was the Beatles “Let It Be” album. I guess I was around 12 years old. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/85 "2003-08-11T18:10:02Z")
First album – Sgt. Pepper. In mono. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/86 "2003-08-11T19:10:36Z")
I was probably seven or eight, in te early seventies, when I got the Sweet’s album on Bell Records. The one with “Little Willy” on it. To this day, almost 30 years later, I still dig that album. Sure, it was cheesy bubblegum pop, but at the same time, still pretty raw and rockin’ and it probably led to me getting into punk rock a few years later. The bubblegum punk thats out today doesn’t come close to the greatness of The Sweet in their heyday. Jon ---
**Author:** ![PiscesPrincess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f1d935/32.png) [@PiscesPrincess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PiscesPrincess)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/87 "2003-08-11T19:48:47Z")
“I Love Rock & Roll” - Joan Jett (I’m guessing it was 1980?)- a 45 as well. My next purchase was Olivia Newton-John - “Let’s Get Physical”. Although I’m no longer a fan of either lady’s music, I have to admit my musical tastes are just as diverse today! ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/88 "2003-08-11T19:49:13Z")
Queen’s _The Game_ Bee Gees _Spirits Having Flown_ I never appreciated Christmas money… ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/89 "2003-08-11T20:13:58Z")
I bet I might give **TeaRoses** and **Maleinblack** a run for their pathetic money: My very absolute first, all-by-myself-with-my-own-money music purchase was … _Menudo_. Back when Ricky Martin was in the group. Bought it on cassette with my birthday money when I was somewhere between 10-12 years old. The first CD I ever bought was Pearl Jam’s _Ten_ when I was a sophomore in college. That was 1993. I wanted to impress my then-boyfriend when he came to visit me at school by having his favorite CD around. Guess it worked - we’re married now!! ---
**Author:** ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/90 "2003-08-11T20:45:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RealityChuck \* > \*\*First album – Sgt. Pepper. In mono. 🙂 \*\* You know, I really hate that album (but liked it as a kid), but I’d really like to hear the mono version. I’ve heard mono versions of stuff that just blow away the stereo versions (some of the stones early stuff fer instance). Was it a whole different version or was it just the remastered stereo version. I’m gonna go look around on google. Thanks for giving me something to do 🙂 /hijack Jon ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/91 "2003-08-12T00:46:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by nitroglycerine \* > \*\*You know, I really hate that album (but liked it as a kid), but I’d really like to hear the mono version. I’ve heard mono versions of stuff that just blow away the stereo versions (some of the stones early stuff fer instance). Was it a whole different version or was it just the remastered stereo version. > I’m gonna go look around on google. Thanks for giving me something to do 🙂 > > /hijack > Jon \*\* I assume they remastered it from the stereo version. It was released while they were still doing two versions of albums, since you couldn’t play stereo albums on mono equipment. Shortly thereafter, they came up with a stereo disk that wasn’t destroyed by mono equipment (so they said), and mono was no more. ---
**Author:** ![lurker\_anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@lurker\_anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurker_anonymous)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/92 "2003-08-12T01:25:21Z")
“Born To Run” by Bruce Springsteen. I remember that he was on the cover of “Time” magazine (that my dad subscribed to) and I read the article and got my dad to take me to Sears and I got the album…wow. This may have prevented me from getting sidetracked into top 40 music, because not long after that I discovered A(lbum) O(riented) R(ock) radio stations that played Springsteen and that led to many great music discoveries. I’ll never forget the night that this one radio station played Led Zeppelin II. I listened through headphones and discovered a whole new world of music. Thanks for the thread, have not thought about that in years… ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/93 "2003-08-12T01:52:21Z")
Ummmm… Smokey the Bear, Smokey the Bear, Howlin’ and a growlin’ and a sniffin’ the air, He can smell a fire before it starts to flame Dunno why they call him Smokey but I’m sure he deserves the name. backed with “The Sigh of the Dying Trees”, no less. Age = 4 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/94 "2003-08-12T03:04:58Z")
First album anyone gave to me? The “Best of CCR” compilation on vinyl, that **if6was9** mentioned upthread. Ironically, I was never particularly interested in CCR. I thought the cover was interesting though. First album I actually bought for myself? “_Benzaiten_” by Osamu Kitajima. This was around 1980 or so. I remember wanting it so badly, then finally going into the Sam The Record Man store in Oshawa and getting it. Joy! I was a weird kid. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/95 "2003-08-12T03:19:26Z")
First 45: Manfred Mann’s “Blinded by the Light” First LP: Neil Diamond’s “Love at the Greek” First CD: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony Yeah, that’s right. That’s what I said. ---
**Author:** ![dead0man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@dead0man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dead0man)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/96 "2003-08-12T07:51:09Z")
Tape Boston-Boston in say 1985. Album Aerosmith-Done With Mirrors in say 1989 (I couldn’t find it on tape or cd and I needed it to complete my Aerosmith collection) CD Soundgarden-BadMotorFinger in say 1991?2?(i may be remembering this one wrong) ---
**Author:** ![Shiva418](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@Shiva418](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shiva418)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/97 "2003-08-12T15:29:24Z")
Nirvana’s _Nevermind_ on Tape. What can I say, I was 11. ---
**Author:** ![SpaceForRent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@SpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/98 "2003-08-12T15:40:38Z")
My first vinyl I purchased (around 9 or 10 years old I think) was Styx’s Equinox album. I also remember the first CD I ever purchased. Black Sabbath’s Heaven and Hell. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674/99 "2003-08-12T16:18:03Z")
My mother got a record player for Christmas when I was ten, and I went out the next day and bought a $3 LP called “A Kiddie’s Christmas” cause it had two cats on the cover and my mother loved cats. I didn’t remember that till I saw this thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-music-purchase/192674.md?page=4)