The first album you purchased was?

**Ricci** · **04-30-08, 05:09 PM**

I was wondering what everyone's first record that you actually went out and bought with your own money was? I bet it says a lot about where you come from and what kind of person you are.

Mine was...on tape...drum roll please...

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I used money from cutting grass and had my sister's older friend buy it for me (I was 10 at the time). That album is waaay mature for a 10yr old and I couldn't believe some of the stuff I heard on there! I had to hide it from my mom. Me and my sister jammed that tape until it wore out some years later. It still brings back very strong memories for me.

**Sonnie** · **04-30-08, 06:43 PM**

I believe my first albums were from Columbia House, so it would have been a group of albums. However, I can't remember what they were. I believe I was about 14-15, which would have been around 1975-76. I know I was a big Elvis fan back then, so I figure it would have included an Elvis album. It seems like I remember Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was another one.

**OvalNut** · **04-30-08, 06:57 PM**

Good question!

I was 12 at the time, and mine was....

Tim

**Rambo4** · **04-30-08, 10:35 PM**

At 10, this was my first purchase:

Man I miss that guy.

**thxgoon** · **05-01-08, 12:35 AM**

and

Bought them both before I even had a CD player. I think I was 12 and bought them with paper route money

**atledreier** · **05-01-08, 03:38 AM**

It was vinyl, and it was Kim Wilde. It was back in '86, I was 12 and the album was all over the radio. I still have that album, and I still like it. There's something special about your first time anything. My first stereo system still exist in the family too, and it still works. The CD-player has bought the farm, but the rest is fine.

**premiumplus** · **05-01-08, 04:36 AM**

Heh heh heh,

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band

**Ricci** · **05-01-08, 11:49 AM**

Good stuff all around. We've got some Mellencamp, some Boston, Elton John...
Seems like everyone remembers what that first purchase was too.

**nova** · **05-01-08, 12:18 PM**

Hmmm,... not positive this was the first, but I think it was. Musta been about '77. Dunno what it says about me or where I come from though

Yup, vinyl.....that one and a whole bunch of others are down in the basement. Only record player I have left is a big old RCA Victrola console unit,...talk about a warm sound. Needless to say, I very rarely listen to any of my vinyl collection anymore.

**drumdude** · **05-01-08, 10:45 PM**

AC/DC - Highway to Hell Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic

On Vinyl of course. cause 8-tracks got eaten too easy.

**Ricci** · **05-02-08, 11:54 AM**

I like how everyone is noting the format that the album was purchased on too. Whether it was vinyl, 8 track, tape, or cd. I wonder what a 15 yr old would say? "I just bought the new Killers album download(Wav files?)".

**Tonto** · **05-02-08, 12:22 PM**

That's easy, Supertramp...(1)Even In The Quietest Moments & (2) Crime Of The Century. Bought them both at the same time, back in the late 70's during college @ FSU. Great music for great times! Still 2 of my favorites.

**SteveB** · **05-03-08, 12:24 AM**

1964:

Seems like I spent $2.99, not sure though.

**rcarlton** · **05-03-08, 08:43 AM**

Mine was Toys in the Attic. Bought it at State Discount for $2.99 on Grand River Avenue in East Lansing! Before that my sister bought all the records we had...Alice Cooper 45rpm Elected, some John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Jesus Christ Superstar, Winchester Cathedral....

I had an 8-track recorder and borrowed records from friends...why buy?

**DRB** · **05-07-08, 01:07 AM**

"The Doors". Vinyl. Mono.

**lcaillo** · **05-07-08, 06:28 AM**

I have a hard time recalling, but I think it was Led Zeppelin II.

**mrsollars** · **05-07-08, 01:51 PM**

Pixies - Doolittle.

4th grade birthday party. (this would be a 'cd' .....so an album from 'my time' )

**zoinks** · **05-08-08, 01:16 AM**

Deep Purple - Machine Head

**brucek** · **05-08-08, 06:55 AM**

ENGLANDS NEWEST HIT MAKERS - THE ROLLING STONES

This was their first album and mine too. I got it in 1964.

I wore the thing out. Before that I only had 45 singles.

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brucek

**walmat** · **09-10-09, 04:35 PM**

I was 11 years old and it was KISS Destroyer.

**ironglen** · **09-10-09, 04:55 PM**

I listened to my bro's music early on (lucky for me it was RnR) This first cassette was bought with money I saved from lunch money at the age of 12. Each week I was given $7, each week I saved $2 towards RnR music. I've got their music from the early 70's til now-they're STILL rocking

**robbo266317** · **09-10-09, 06:58 PM**

My first vinyl was Skyhooks - Living in the Seventies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhooks
Closely followed by Black Sabbath Vol. 4

My last purchase was Erykah Badu - Baduizm

**sparky77** · **09-10-09, 10:34 PM**

Like Sonnie, I ordered from Columbia House, ordered 12 tapes, don't remember all of them, but I do remember that "The Simpsons Sing The Blues" was one of them. As for my wife, her first was a Three Dog Night 8 track. Obviously she is a little older than I am.

**number 5** · **09-10-09, 11:32 PM**

My first album was Bill Withers, Still Bill, LP, 1972. I think my next was Jethro Tull, Thick as a Brick, LP, 1972. I bought it to do a book report for a high school English class. After that I got into Jazz for several years, kicking it off with Herbie Hancock, Head Hunters, LP, 1973, Maynard Fergusen, etc.

But I was buying Top 40 singles on cassette tape as far back as 1968 with money I made mowing lawns. I really don't recall what I bought first, but I remember buying singles like Manfred Mann, Mighty Quinn, The Beatles, Hey Jude, etc.

**STRONGBADF1** · **09-11-09, 09:16 AM**

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

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