Hope for the future, a.k.a. the first record you bought with your own money

I love the OP's witnessing that and wish I'd seen it as well, because it was indeed a privilege

I'm always amazed when I see young kids in used record stores--and very thankful for it.

 

Queen-II

 

I think I hate you.

 

I joined the Record Club of America and got three albums for $1.

Elton John - Elton John
Three Dog Night - Captured Live at the Forum
The Osmonds - Phase III

 

*starts mentally singing Half Man half Biscuit's - Irk The Purists*
Grew up with vinyl - earliest (vinyl) memory is being given a childrens record player that only played 7" + two singles/eps (one had a version of I'm only A Poor Little Sparrow, I have no idea what the other was except it was spoken word - pos religious - & had a cover that looked deadly serious & old like one of those records of politician's speeches or a famous preacher - just remember being confused/weirded out by it, not having any reference points and not knowing knowing who the man was but feeling like he must be somebody important that I should've known. Don't remember what happened to it but I didn't have access to any other records so either got bored or it broke & it got quickly binned or given away along with the records. Do remember putting one of the tiny lying down cows from my farmyard set on it and enjoying watching it going round and round.)

Slightly later, living with my grandparents, I got to experience/have access to their record collection (classical, Jim Reeves, Male Voice Choirs, tiny bit of Cliff, Kenneth McKellar, Sound of Music/Mary Poppins soundtrack..) Their record player & speakers came from Boots (own brand), found the booklet for it a lot later and couldn't believe it included instructions on how to to connect a tape recorder and tape them. Basically a major high street shop that also sold LPs, telling it's customers how to pirate them, even though it would lose them sales from tape sharing. Must've been pre the whole "home taping is killing music" campaign.

First record (and last for nearly a decade) I bought with my own money was this bit of rubbish done for Comic Relief (features members of Queen & they thank Freddie Mercury on the sleeve). Got it in Woolworths in 1991 just before 7" singles went, followed by records completely disappearing from sale where I lived.

Oh god, no. Just remembered, the first was really a copy of There's No One Quite Like Grandma, still around a while after it had come out, bought as a present for my Grandmother *shudders*

 

Beatles'65,technically not my money, I took it out of my church envelope that I was supposed to put in the church basket. I took it straight to Als record spot I felt guilty all the way home until I dropped the needle on that record. My life ain't been the same since.

 

Them's the Vagaries....

 

Beatles - "Hard Day's Night" b/w "I Should Have Known Better" with pic sleeve. The pic sleeve is long gone but I still have the 45 - with my name on the label in black magic marker! The grooves on that 45 look like ten miles of bad road.



This is still one of my favorite 7" pic sleeves ever - I should buy a copy!

 

The Jimi Hendrix Experience. I left it at my ex girlfriend's best friends house and I'm more saddened by that than the breakup

 

No need. I trashed the cover with my clumsy attempt to peel off the paste over. I still have it as a precious and painful reminder of my good luck and of my bad judgement.

 

Genesis, We Can't Dance

 

Well after all, they were bigger than...

BTW, I'd have instructed the teen on how to play a record while quickly advising her that the tracks on that album with no vocals are NOT by The Beatles so judge accordingly.

 

Abbey Road. It's been downhill ever since. . . Last album I totally trashed too.

 

Friday night at K-Mart. The newest release.
Not my first record, but an early one that I can remember.
I was too young to drive. Rode with Mom on payday.
Used to cut grass, shovel snow etc.. for 'record money'.

 

First self bought Vinyl: a-ha "East Of The Sun, West Of The Moon", Winter 1990/1991 at the age of 14. First CD was "Discography" by the Pet Shop Boys about a year later.

 

Being born in 1982 I was at the tail end of records as a small kid. I do remember buying the 45 singles of You Got It (Orbison) and "When I'm With You" by Sheriff lol

 

I guess the only difference between the OP's modern scenario and us oldsters here is we didn't have to ask where the needle goes. By the time I had or bought my own records, I'd watched people 'drop the needle' countless times. Because...... that was the times.

 

Xanadu soundtrack, I was 8, lawn mowing money, bought at Kmart, played on a cheapo player that my mother had, I didn't care, it was ELO! and a beauty on the cover

 

That was an awful long time ago. Gotta think about this one....
Seems like I bought the Soundtracks to both Star Wars and Saturday Night Fever at about the same time. Can't think of anything I bought before those, but it may come to me later.

 

Paid for with the ten dollar bill I got in a card from a relative for my 11th birthday (and I'm pretty sure I had some money left over to buy some candy!) I remember getting it at the Alexander's department store at the big shopping mall on Rt 95 in Milford, CT.

 

We're talking about vinyl, only? So:

First 45: U2 - Desire
First LP: Pink Floyd - More

..too bad Pink Floyd didn't give away their last album for free, just like U2 did

 

Classic!!

 

Jimi Hendrix -- Are You Experienced?