The first album you purchased was?

**graphicguy** · **09-14-09, 02:58 PM**

I know that I was perusing a college campus (where I would eventually become a student, myself) and found some folks having a garage sale. I was still a teen (16, maybe?). Found a wooden crate full of albums that the seller didn't want to move back home (spring, right after school was out).

I remember I didn't have a lot of money on me (again, I was a teen). But, for $10 the seller said I could pick any 5 albums out of the crate.

1. Chicago II (double album)
2. Temptations-Psychedelic Soul (another double album, and also an import, IIRC)
3. Muddy "Mississippi" Waters-Live
4. Ella Fitzgerald-The Best is Yet To Come
5. The Pretenders-Learning to Crawl

Since I was riding my only wheels, a Honda 350 motorcycle, the albums were put into a back pack for the ride home. Apparently, it was hot enough outside, that by the time I got them home to play, some were warped....to the point where the tonearm looked more like a yo-yo while playing them.

Put 3-4 encyclopedias on them and left them outside for an hour or so, and they more or less, flattened back out to where they were at least playable.

The rest of the summer, all of those albums (actually, they were only ones I owned for quite some time) got a heavy rotation of play time. Eventually, I wore them out in about 4-5 months time. But, I'll never forget those albums. Whenever I hear any cuts from any of them playing on the radio, it takes me right back to that time, and that place. All great albums, too!

**Ricci** · **09-16-09, 03:23 PM**

Awesome...Keep em coming.

**dyohn** · **09-16-09, 04:52 PM**

the first album I ever purchased myself was probably Please Please Me.

**StereoClarity** · **09-16-09, 09:19 PM**

Oh yeah....I was a bad to the bone 8 year old! Still a great album!

**ironglen** · **09-17-09, 12:36 AM**

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STRONGBADF1 wrote:

Not positive but I believe it was Rush - Moving Pictures on vinyl...it's been awhile.

That's a goood one! I had that on vinyl too early on, along with an Iron Maiden- Phantom of the Opera single. Actually, I may have had those albums first, before the Scorpions cassette. I loved red barchetta and witch hunt.

**dradius** · **09-17-09, 09:08 AM**

first tape: either Onyx or Naughty By Nature.
first cd: red hot chili peppers: what hits?
first album: quicksand

what can i say, i'm an 80s baby.

**Lordoftherings** · **11-05-09, 01:55 PM**

The Beatles "Revolver".

**lsiberian** · **11-05-09, 02:19 PM**

MXPX "Life in General"

**tonyvdb** · **11-05-09, 02:22 PM**

Mine was the LP of Sweet comfort band their debut in 1978

Followed by a newer release of the same band Perfect Timing

The Police

**TheWoat** · **11-10-09, 07:52 PM**

First Tape: Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
First CD: Perez Prado -Mundo Mambo

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