First album you ever bought?

Honestly, I don't remember

 

Another vote for The Doors s/t.

 

First CD was The Sugarcubes Life's Too Good. All those bonus tracks.... That's what made me take the plunge into CDs. I think it was $18.99. Still have it tho.

 

Queen II at Sam the record man late 80's.

Still have it, the pressing is quite rare as it's not on Discogs!

 

Was actually a compilation if that counts....The Beatles Anthology 1 on CD in 1995.

 

Jan Hammer
The first Seven Days
UK issue vinyl in 1975
At age 10 still got it, plays great still.

 

I started off by trading R2R tapes and didn’t buy my 1st CD until 1994, once I turned 29. Most albums I acquired prior to that were gifts, or if I bought something I have no recollection of it. In 1994 on CD:

Al Di Meola Project – Soaring Through A Dream
Al Di Meola Project – Tirami Su

Then in the used CD store on the same day:
Genesis – Selling England By The Pound
Fish – Internal Exile

On 2011, when I started building my records collection, I took a few CDs I didn’t care for (mostly some Japanese mini LPs), got $70 credit and bought a few albums. Those that I remember:

Bee Gees – 1st
Nazareth – Close Enough for Rock’n’Roll
Sky – Sky
Sky – 2
ELO – Eldorado
Some Dixie Dregs, but What If was not one of them.
Wigwam – Rumours On The Rebound
Family – In A Doll’s House
Magnum – Kingdom Of Madness
Jon Anderson – Olias Of Sunhillow
Alan Parsons Project – Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Alan Parsons – The Turn of a Friendly Card
Yes – Yesshows

I remember the clerk counted how much I owe and just let me go. It was late at night, and if I’m not mistaken they waited on me to close the store. Sadly, out of business now.

 

first single - Kiss - Detroit Rock City/Beth in 1976 - played to death on this beauty of a turntable.

first album - Blondie - The Best of Blondie in 1981 - $6.99 at the local Sam the Record Man

 

First LP - The Monkees (1966)
First CD - The Beatles, Please Please Me (1987)

 

Ozzy, Diary of a Madman, because my brother told me to. Changed my life.

 

I think this topic had been covered before (maybe several times) but anyway, this is the first album I bought with my own money, at the McDill AFB PX (Tampa, FL) in 1970. I still have this LP today, in my office - though it's the worse for wear, it's a keeper for me.

Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan - Birds of a Feather (featuring Tennessee Bird Walk, a novelty hit)



First CD: Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna (bought it in 1983 when the CD was first released, the LP of course, was released in 1981)

 

My avatar, ILPS 9200.

 

Everclear - So Much for the Afterglow

on cassette in 1997

It's still a great album that I later bought on CD

 

The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You

 

First album I bought with my own money:


First album I replaced with a CD:


The first CD I bought as a new acquisition (didn't already own as an album):

 

Copy/pasted from this thread from last year
The First Music - Single/Album/8-Track/Cassette/CD/Digital etc - I Ever Bought Was ...
Born in 72 to give an idea
All bought retail new
First record, bought with lawn mowing money in 1980-
Xanadu Soundtrack
First cassette-Duran Duran-Rio, I think. Could of been a Howard Jones title.
First cassingle-New Order Blue Monday 88
First cd single (going on a memory stretch here)-Pixes-Monkey Gone To Heaven (Discovery Systems Variation)
First cd-ELO-Out of The Blue
Don't think I ever purchased a new 7 inch back then. In High School i'd grab one's of interest in used shops.

 

The first cassette I bought was The Beatles Rock 'n' Roll Music Volume 2. I received Volume 1 at Christmas along with George's Cloud Nine. The first vinyl album I bought was U2 Rattle and Hum. The first cd I ever bought was Roger McGuinn Back From Rio.

 

D.D.

 

Fabs Help! US Soundtrack back in '65. To this day it remains my favorite and most often played Fabs lp. It's the Beatles first sitar album. Those Eastern and James Bond styled soundtrack songs are all excellent. In my elder years I have grown to appreciate Dave Dexter Jr for his Capitol album sequencing including the Help soundtrack, all the sonic sweetening he did with the various Fabs tracks and the awesome duophonic stereo mixes of tracks like Ticket To Tide. Dex rules!

 

I'm from Sterling heights still live here, you buy and sell records? I do message me if you ever want to

 

Open reel anyone? Lol

 

First album I ever bought was (when I was seven years old) was God Bless Tiny Tim.
The second album I ever bought when I was 13 was Beggars Banquet.

 

Surrealistic Pillow back when rack jobbers stocked the local corner store.