What was the first CD that you bought??

I bought my first CD player during the Christmas season of 1987 -- a Yamaha single-disc player. I was still using it until last September.

The first CD I owned, a Christmas present, was Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen. Over the next few days, I used some of my Christmas money to add several Capitol Beatles CDs to the collection; eventually I got them all, then I got the two Past Masters volumes the week they came out in early 1988. After that, the collection built up very slowly, though. I still bought new releases on vinyl and reissues/compilations on CD. Even today, I still follow that rule as much as I can.

 

Alan Parsons Project - Stereotomy, 1987. The title track was just hitting the air waves back then and it caught my fancy. I also bought my first ever CD player at that time. It was an el cheapo Sears LXI series (lol) player. I say el cheapo now, but back then it set me back around 250 clams.

Ya know, I can't remember the second one.

 

Glenn Gould - The Goldberg Variations
(Just got a new remasterd (SBM) copy of it in Europe)

 

November 1986: Journey "Raised on Radio" at Hi-Fi Buys. The disk came with the Sony portable Disc-Man I purchased. I still have the CD but the Disc Man bought the farm in 1991. That disk still sounds good today. It doesn't sound shrill like some other CDs I bought later on.

 

I do have this CD as well and love it.

 

I was vinyl all the way until the mid 90's when I finally got talked into my first DCC gold CDs.

I'd actually had a CD player for a while but had never used it. Now, I have quite a collection, including just about all of the DCC Golds.

I still love my LP's though

 

and when did you buy it?

I bought my first CD in the late spring of 1986, the CD single of Peter Gabriel's song 'Big Time.' Besides a long mix of the title track, it also had 'Across the River' (featuring Stewart Copeland on drums) and the album version of 'No Self Control' (w/ killer drums by Phil Collins). Since his back catalogue didn't come out even as UK imports for another year or so, it was cool having that latter song right off the bat.

I didn't get my own CD player for several months longer (poor grad student days) so I'd schlep 'Big Time' around with me to friends places who had players

I think my next purchase, which I now regret selling, was a Japanese import compilation of early Beatles singles, up through 'Help.' None of the Beatles catalogue was out domestically so I had to get this. Why I sold it, grrrr.....

Ere

 

Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks (1984?)

mud-

 

a used copy of the Very Best of The Righteous Brothers...Unchained Melody

 

Van Halen: 5150. I bought it in 1987, I think. I still have it.

 

The first 2 CDs I purchased where the Toshiba EMI issues of Abbey Road and Tug Of War, when they first came out in Japan. I didn't get a CD player for at least a year after I bought those, although I was able to borrow a player for my local Tech HiFi to listen to them. That was in the days when the first CD players were introduced at the $100 price point. The player I borrowed was a vertical loader. The door opened up as a cassette deck does.

I still remember being upset about the hiss in Abbey Road. I've learned since then....

 

I think it was the Grateful Dead - Shakedown Street about 1984?

 

Nirvana - "Nevermind;" 1992.

So I was a late CD bloomer. Hey, I was eleven...

 

chicago II and jackson browne"s "world in motion" on the same day.

both used.

1989

 

Madonna's "Like A Virgin" December 1984. I didn't get a CD player until seven months later.

 

Fresh Prince & DJ Jazzy Jeff's "Summertime."

 

CCR - Chronicles (1984)

 

It was Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms...

 

The Alarms "Declaration", I'm guessing at early to mid '84. I bought the CD player in an electronics store that didn't sell discs. I had to run across the street into a mall to pick up a CD, but it was almost 9pm and they were shutting down. I grabbed The Alarm disc because of the all too important DDD designation. Really crappy sounding disc, but I remember being impressed with how QUIET the background was. I still have it, I don't think I've played it since 1986 or so.

 

Mine was Blow by Blow by Jeff Beck in 1984 or 85

 

I held on to my cassettes until I was about 14 years old. My father had about two hundred cd's by 1993. After drooling over his collection I decided (wisely) to stop buying cassettes. I got a Sony Discman and hooked it up to my cheesy cassette boombox.

The first two discs I bought were:

-Styx: Paradise Theater (still one of my all time faves. Nothing ever goes as planned is worth the price of the disc alone).

-Jethro Tull: Original Masters (One of the best hits albums by anyone, period).

I probably now own about 500 discs. On average I buy one or two a week (more since I moved to Hawaii).

 

I bought 3 at one time in spring of 1989-

Whitesnake- Whitesnake
Kiss- Creatures of The Night
Kiss- Double Platinum or Smashes, Thrashes , & Hits. I can't remember.