Wait, I'm wrong about this. I was buying cassettes before 1989. I remember buying tapes at the big Ames (was it Ames?) superstore on the way upstate when I went to visit my brother at his group home. I was into metal then, and I bought whatever I thought was cool on Headbanger's Ball.
In 1988, bought on the same day: Metallica's Master of Puppets and Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation (which I learned about from a metal magazine)(!).
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 16 February 2003 15:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ernest P. (ernestp), Sunday, 16 February 2003 15:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 16 February 2003 15:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 16 February 2003 16:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― naked as sin (naked as sin), Sunday, 16 February 2003 16:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
First CDs - Peter Gabriel's _So_ and Kate Bush - _The Hounds of Love_ back when twenty-two bucks was an unimaginable amount to spend on a single LP worth of material.
First single would probably have to be World Destruction _Time Zone_, but i didn't call anything a single if it was bigger than 7" wide.
The only time i've ever bought a recorded cassette was when friends and i were on a roadtrip through Australia and our stash of tapes had gotten stale. Bought a Split Enz greatest hits and Talking Heads _Naked_. This was the summer of 1990. Gas went up to 1.65 a litre!
― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Sunday, 16 February 2003 16:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― JoB (JoB), Sunday, 16 February 2003 17:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
The first compact disc I bought (in `89 or so, after forsaking my turntable) was CHIPS FROM THE CHOCOLATE FIREBALL by the Dukes of Stratosphear (ala XTC).
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 16 February 2003 17:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
Sorry, I'm only on the first cup of coffee. That should've read:
Like I said, the first album I ever spent....
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 16 February 2003 17:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
Ooh, could you imagine Chipmunks From the Chocolate Fireball??
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 16 February 2003 17:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 16 February 2003 17:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Sunday, 16 February 2003 17:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Hayden (Hayden), Sunday, 16 February 2003 19:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Sunday, 16 February 2003 22:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Rob Bolton, Sunday, 16 February 2003 23:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 16 February 2003 23:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― di smith (lucylurex), Monday, 17 February 2003 00:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
I lucked out on this one. My mom won a raffle and the prize was an RCA CD player. It was my stereo CD player up until around mid 2000 when the motor went out. It took a beating and I would love to know exactly how many hours of music it actually played.
― earlnash, Monday, 17 February 2003 00:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
first 8 track tape with own money: Foreigner - s/t (Atlantic, 1977)
first cassette tape with own money: Billy Squier - "Don't Say No" (Capitol, 1981)
first CD with own cash: the Cure - "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me" (Elektra, 1987)
― dandy don weiner, Monday, 17 February 2003 01:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mean Guy, Monday, 17 February 2003 01:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://www.ukcollectibles.co.uk/Images/now7tapeb.jpg
No regrets...
― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 17 February 2003 04:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― piscesboy, Monday, 17 February 2003 13:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
My first LP was 'The Very Best of David Bowie' with my Xmas money in 1980.
First 7" was 'What you're proposing' by Status Quo.
― James Ball (James Ball), Monday, 17 February 2003 14:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
First CD: 'Kill Uncle'.
― Rayas Blancas, Monday, 17 February 2003 14:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― willem (willem), Monday, 17 February 2003 14:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin (robin), Monday, 17 February 2003 15:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― matt riedl (veal), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Monday, 17 February 2003 16:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 17 February 2003 17:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― christoff (christoff), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
That would be Jim Irvin, singer in Furniture, I believe! Also played surreptitious guitar on a handful of early Gay Dad tracks, if memory serves...but I'm sure he doesn't want to talk about that.
― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 February 2003 21:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 17 February 2003 23:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 17 February 2003 23:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Monday, 17 February 2003 23:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 23:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 23:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
...what was the first cd that i bought myself, that i honestly cannot recall; cd's given by musicians started to appear in the corner of my shelf a few years before i bought a cd player or any cd's m'self
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 02:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
did you buy aforementioned LP/cassette/CD specifically in anticipation of answering questions on threads/in conversations such as this one?
Well did you? Come on now.
― Charlie (Charlie), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 02:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 08:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
This is why I avoid ILM.
― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 08:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
CD: Michael Penn, "March"
(cringe)
― mosurock (mosurock), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 09:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 11:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― alexfack (alexfack), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kevin brady (groeuvre), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/6EXADT7.jpg
― warm smell of burritos (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:47 (ten years ago) link