What Was The First Album/Cd You Purchased For Yourself?

...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

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.

This is why I avoid ILM.

CD: Michael Penn, "March"

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whoa hueg, sorry

Beatles 1967-1970
Doors, 13

I must have been 9 or 10, so 1977-1978

Bonnie Tyler - Faster Than the Speed of Night

LP: Beatles, White Album
CD: I wish I had a better memory of this, but I think it was Philip Glass, Songs from Liquid Days (lol)
Vinyl single: Cramps, "Faster Pussycat"/"You Got Good Taste" (7" picture disc on New Rose) (I was not a single buyer)
8-track tape: something by Neil Young I think?

Don't recall any prerecorded cassettes or CD singles

the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

this is what we do. do. do. do.

haha Blind Man's Zoo was one of my first elpees.

My first CD was Michael Penn's March.

First CD single: "Lovesong."

cassette: men at work, business as usual

lp: possibly thriller, but i'm not sure

cd: rust never sleeps

lp: Chicago 18

cassette: Candlebox - s/t (shut up)

First LP was either Goofy Greats or the Hair movie soundtrack (which my parents inexplicably let 6-year-old me listen to). First cassette was Rush's A Farewell To Kings. First CD was a bootleg of the Who's 4/5/68 Fillmore East show. That's the only one of these I still have.

Oh weird mookie, my first CD was that Men At Work album, followed closely by the first Gin Blossoms album

Continuing the Men at Work theme, I saved my allowance for weeks to buy my first new record, the Business as Usual LP in the spring of 1982. Before that I had bought a couple of used records, notably Judas Priest's Hero, Hero.

I think my first tape was Diver Down
first 45 was "Eye of the Tiger"
first LP was Thriller
10K Maniacs was my first CD

it was either the marshall mathers lp or the third foo fighters album (i bought them within a couple of days of each other), which is unfortunate as i can't pin anything of biographical or genealogical interest onto either of those albums

first 2 LPs bought in a Manchester shop c.1975/76: Black Sabbath - Paranoid and Led Zeppelin - II
pretty great start and I first listened to them loud on headphones!

soon after I bought some Beatles cassettes: Revolver and Magical Mystery Tour - one of these actually in Liverpool I think! (the other prob in Stockport) most Beatles albums I'd already home taped from friends. I also bought Led Zep's live The Song Remains The Same (cassette or LP?).

I bought some Roxy albums from other kids at boarding school (in Staffs) during 3rd Form (1976): Siren and Viva!.
strangely I didn't learn of Eno and hear the first 2 Roxy albums until 1980, though I did also hear someone else's copies of Stranded and Country Life and in 1977 Bowie - Heroes, which made a strong impression (side 2 ambient weirdness!).

first artist I followed/bought contemporary was Ferry: Let's Stick Together and In Your Mind.
last album I bought in England before I left Dec '77 was Never Mind The Bollocks, October release I think.

that's pretty much my record collection until Jan 1980 when I got a part-time job and could afford to buy LPs every week.

Funny I never posted yet, I love asking people this.

First 7" - Christopher Cross, "Ride Like The Wind"
First LP - Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle
First Cassette - Violent Femmes - The Blind Leading the Naked (Not sure, could have also been Screaming Blue Messiahs - Gun Shy, Woodentops - Giant, Hüsker Dü – Candy Apple Grey or Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time. Dunno why but I liked the toxic plastic smell of those new plastic cassettes more than new records!)
First CD - Joy Division - Substance

First Cassette Single - Duran Duran - Come Undone
First Cassette Album - Duran Duran - Decade
First CD Single - Menswe@r - Stardust
First CD Album - Pulp - A Different Class
First 7" - Julian Lennon - Saltwater
First LP - I'm struggling to remember what this was. Think it was around 1999 I started buying vinyl. Think it was possibly Real Life by Magazine.

First LP - Probably either Bill Cosby Wonderfulness or Another Monty Python Record (I was 10)

First Music LP - Barry Manilow's first album (the one with "Could It Be Magic") (I was 12)

First CD was going to be Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon but the store didn't have it in stock

Actual first CDs -
- Peter Gabriel So
- Various Artists A Winter's Solstice - A Windham Hill Compilation
- XTC The Big Express (Import)

please hammer don't hurt em

tape - Red Hot Chili Peppers 'What Hits'
CD - Spin Doctors' second album I think
LP - Cramps 'Off The Bone'

tape Pet Shop Boys - Disco
I can't remember the first vinyl lp I bought but it was no doubt gothy/punky type stuff possibly Junkyard by The Birthday Party. I also owned Off The Bone, bloody 3d album cover but no specs.
CD - Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep I already owned a vinyl version that was titled Niggamortis but bought it again. I later used the fact that I had paid for stuff twice as a moral justification for tealeafing loads of stuff on Soulseek.

LP: The Police - Outlandos D'Amour
Tape: The Beat - Wha'ppen?
CD: Captain Beefheart - Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)

That's almost impossibly cool for a first CD!

wasn't really into CDs tbh, but was a big Beefheart fan and couldn't find it on vinyl so

Tape: The Beatmasters - Anywayawanna
LP: not sure, the first vinyl I bought myself was probably Fresh Four - Release Yourself 12", but that's not an album. Maybe The Miracle by Queen? I didn't really buy much vinyl as a kid, just tapes.
CD: Pixies - Trompe Le Monde (which sadly I returned to the store after being mocked by older boys for listening to shit indie music. I exchanged it for The Human League's Greatest Hits, which I can't think would've gone down any better with them really. Bought Trompe Le Monde again a year or so later after mean older boys had left school)

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My parents wouldn't buy me any Motley Crue tapes because I guess they'd heard a thing or two about the band, but agreed to let me own an album if I paid for it myself. One day after church we rolled up to records and tapes section of Sears and I plunked a cassette of Shout at the Devil down on the counter, along with $7.99 in coins. A ton of pennies too. I think my dad actually had to help me out because I didn't realize there would be sales tax.

CD was either Meat Puppets Up on the Sun or Descendents Somery, ordered via an SST records insert. Were they cheaper than buying CDs in Sam Goody or whatever? This was in the early 90s I primarily bought cassettes until the late 90s just because they were less expensive.

I'm near certain that vinyl would have probably been the Pacers Hassnpfeffer 7".

First 7" - 3 at once: "Love Will Keep Us Together" (Captain & Tennille), "Theme from 'The Rockford Files'" (Mike Post), "Black Superman" (Johnny Wakelin)
First LP - Stevie Wonder, Songs In The Key of Life
First 8-Track lol - Supertramp, Breakfast In America
First Cassette - Can't recall for sure, probably Quiet Riot's "Metal Health" (but I may have gotten a bunch from Columbia House before that: Def Leppard, Big Country, CCR, J. Geils Band, others)
First CD - Alice Cooper, Pretties For You

The first album I remember going into a store and buying was Genesis Invisible Touch on cassette. I think my parents actually bought it for me but I was allowed to pick it out. We were at the mall so I probably got it from Wall to Wall Listening Booth.

I think I started buying music for myself around '86 or '87, and I'm pretty sure I started out exclusively with soundtracks (Spaceballs, Karate Kid 2, Dirty Dancing...y'know, the classics). My brothers and I were all about soundtracks, for some reason, no matter how shitty. What the hell. The first legit album was probably Weird Al's Polka Party. I think my first CD was Further Down The Spiral, which I had to listen to on other people's CD players since I didn't get my own for another 3 or 4 years.

I had some oddball soundtracks too! Iron Eagle, the Light of Day, Star Trek IV...

LP - Pink Floyd - The Wall
tape - Gang Of Four - Another Day Another Dollar
7" - don't remember
CD - Mothers Of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money/Lumpy Gravy

Tape=Pete Rock and CL Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother

CD=The B.U.M.s-Elevate (Free My Mind) maxi single

We were pretty poor when I was a kid, mostly I just copied albums from friends on cassette, or taped songs from the radio. I didn't buy a proper (not counting children's music) album until I was 13. That said, here's my first ones:

Cassette: either some Finnish compilation of Eurodance hits, or The Freddie Mercury Album.
CD: Bangles - Greatest Hits (mostly because I wanted "Walk Like an Egyptian" and "Eternal Flame", I'd never heard anything else by them).
LP: Ronnie Foster - Cheshire Cat (I got my first LP player around 1999, so almost all of the LPs I've bought are ones that aren't available on CD).

When I was young my parents would only let me buy Christian rock albums. Sad, I know. I think the first "secular" album I bought was Dire Straits Brothers in Arms.

First 7" - The Carpenters - Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
First LP - Wings - Band on the Run
First Cassette - ???. First cassette bought for the first car's tape deck was Men at Work - Business as Usual
First CD Album - Mannheim Steamroller - Fresh Aire II (second CD / revisionist first = The Blue Nile - Hats)

First 7" - Tom Tom Turnaround - New World
First LP - 1967-70 - The Beatles
First 12" - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker - Ramones
First cassette - Your Cassette Pet - Bow Wow Wow
First CD single - First We Take Manhattan - Leonard Cohen / I Don't Want To Talk About It - Everything But The Girl (bought same day)
First CD album - a bunch that were bought together, including Akwaba Beach - Mory Kante / Idlewild - Everything But The Girl

First 7" - 3 at once: "Love Will Keep Us Together" (Captain & Tennille), "Theme from 'The Rockford Files'" (Mike Post), "Black Superman" (Johnny Wakelin)

...and THIS was taken the very day I bought 'em (or at least within the week)

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