The first three cd's you ever bought

I don't remember.

The first CD I had (and still have) was a present (Suicidal Tendencies - Controlled By Hatred) but the three first I bought myself I can't remember.

 

This is easy. In 1988 when I turned 16 I got a crap car and a CD player that was worth more than my car. I also got a gift card for 3 CD's. At the time I didn't think I'd ever be able to afford another CD so they had to be diverse so I selected:

NWA-Straight Outta Compton
Guns N Roses-Appetite for Destruction
Hank Williams Jr-Greatest Hits II

 

Diamond Life - Sade - 1984
Space Oddity - David Bowie - 1984
Faith - George Michael - 1987

 

Oh, I thought that was an actual photo by you lol.

 

Late summer/early fall 1989...about to start senior year of High School. I was the first kid on the block to get a CD player. Since I knew that they could be expensive, my first year or so I didn't make any blind buys...only "greatest hits" compilations or albums I already had on tape that I really really really liked. So my first 3 CDs were...

Deepest Purple: The Very Best of Deep Purple
Bad Company: 10 From 6
Black Sabbath: s/t first album

Of these 3, the only one I still have is the Sabbath.

 

I held out on CDs until I got a CD player in the Fall of 1988. I continued to buy hip hop on cassette and mostly indie rock on used or promo vinyl which was really cheap at the time and not in great demand. I think my first three CDs were:

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Cowboy Junkies - Trinity Sessions
New Order - Technique

Two of those (Daydream and Technique) I later bought again on vinyl.

 

Queen's Greatest Hits/Hotel California/ZZ Top Eliminator

 

All I remember is buying my first CD player (boombox) and Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik on disc the same day.

 

Summer of '87, I got The Smiths' Louder Than Bombs, though I wouldn't have a CD player until a year later. The next two were probably Rush's Moving Pictures and Pink Floyd's Meddle.

 

Rubber Soul
Revolver
Donovan’s Greatest Hits

All bought the same day

 

Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Richard Thompson - Rumor and Sigh
Don't remember the third, but I was given a copy of The Velvet Underground around this time as well, and those were my first three CDs.

 

These three came with my Matsui midi hi-fi system Xmas of '86 -

Phil Collins "Hello, I Must Be Going"
Dire Straits "Dire Straits"
Bruce Springsteen "Live 75-85"

 

You never forget your first...
Madonna Like a Virgin bought at the Harvard Coop in December 1984

After that...
Springsteen Born in the USA
Michael Jackson & the Jackson 5 18 Greatest Hits Motown Compact Command Performances

 

My first three CDs were actually CD singles, Tin Machine You Belong In Rock and Roll and Baby Universal, plus Tina Turner's I Want You With Me (as it had her two duets with David Bowie on them). They were all before I got a CD player, the first one was 11 months before. By the time I got a CD player I had accumilated 14 cds, mainly Bowie.

 

u2-Joshua Tree
Led Zep-Led Zep II
The Rolling Stones: Out Of Our Heads

 

Joe Jackson - Body & Soul (my audition disc when I was shopping for a player)
The Best of Blondie
XTC - The Big Express

The Blondie is the only one I no longer have and I'm looking to grab a replacement copy the next time I see it cheap.

 

Not one of my first three CD's, but I remember buying the first Suzanne Vega on a whim because I liked the cover and I vaguely remembered seeing something about her in a magazine. There was not a lot to choose from back then so I was somewhat willing to take a chance on artists I didn't know. Also bought Jane Siberry and Propaganda under similar circumstances. Ended up loving them all.

 

The Outfield -- Play Deep
Boston -- Third Stage
Van Halen -- 5150

 

I held out as long as I could (struggling w/ the false idea that vinyl was dying), a couple years or more
longer than any of my music-buying friends. But finally I gave in and purchased a Denon single-
disc player and the following three cds:

Sketches of Spain - Miles Davis
Saxophone Colossus - Sonny Rollins
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison

I was pretty disappointed with cd sound quality of those early years and I never did give up my vinyl collection.

 

1983:
Fleetwood Mac Rumours
The Doors
The Cars

 

I can’t remember the third but the first 2 were Hendrix Axis Bold as Love and Steve Miller Band’s Greatest Hits

 

First 3? Wow! I can remember Cuts Like A Knife by Bryan Adams was my first. Pretty sure Changes by David Bowie was #2. #3? no idea, my memory isn't THAT good

 

Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 1983
Pink Floyd - DSOTM 1983
Camel - The Snow Goose 1984 (February)

All three of these were from different shops (the Camel CD was from Morocco believe it or not...). All three had to be taken out of a locked glass display cabinet. Different times...

I bought my first CD player in April 1984. It was a Technics machine and, after the initial amazement of it all, I quickly tired of its harsh, digital sound. I traded it in for an ex-demo Meridian MCD about four months later. I was a student and I have no idea how I afforded it...

 

1989:
The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4
Erasure - Crackers International EP
Depeche Mode - People Are People

 

Don't remember numbers 2 or 3, but I do remember one. Long box packaged Journey Raised on Radio. I bought it probably a month or so before I bought a player. I remember thinking: This record sounds SOOO amazing on vinyl, I can only imagine how incredible this CD is going to sound!!