First Music You Ever Bought

Have we done this?

First vinyl: Police - Synchronicity
First cassette: Metallica - 5.98 EP
First CD: can't remember here but I think it was Faith No More - Angel Dust

i'm only 50% sure this is accurate as far as the latter two go

first vinyl: MJ - Thriller
first cassette: i think maybe Def Leppard - Hysteria
first CD: Metallica - the black album

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

Bloodhound Gang - One Fierce Beer Coaster

It's also one of my most listened to albums ever because it was the only one I owned for a long period of time.

First cassette: Survivor, Vital Signs
First vinyl: Billy Squier, Don't Say No (will still rep for this one)
First cassingle: Electronic, Getting Away With It (classic)
First CD: Nine Inch Nails, "Sin" remixes (because it wasn't available on cassette)

Sub-thread:
"Guess my age based on my first album purchase."

Something like this:

First cassette: Various Artists - Throbbin' '84
First vinyl: Talking Heads - Little Creatures (from Kmart clearance bin, at least a year after release)
First CD: Living Colour - Vivid (from hi-fi store clearance bin--same transaction as CD player purchase!)

Cassette: no jacket required
CD: Classic Yes

It was Man of the Woods — I’m a late bloomer.

Cassette = The Best of ABBA circa 1976
Vinyl = Hitwave '82, 1982 duh
CD: The Cure The Top, 1987

cd: Spice World - Spice Girls
vinyl: Frances the Mute - The Mars Volta
cassette: probably something by one of these bands or these bands

Weird Al Yankovic: Even Worse
but only because nobody in Australia could get hold of the 1986 Transformers movie soundtrack.

first vinyl: idek what that is
first cassette: Eric Clapton - Unplugged (1996-ish)
first CD: Nirvana - Nevermind (2001-ish)
(I'd gotten it on cassette a few days earlier, but I accidentally hit record for a few seconds during the intro of "Smells Like Teen Spirit", so I returned to Strawberries as *defective* and replaced it with the CD version. if not for that mishap, I probably would have continued with cassettes for a couple more years)

CD: The Disney Afternoon Soundtrack (1994)
Cassette: The Backscratch Brothers (A musical comedy group from Calgary. One of the rare cassettes that I ever bought.) (1996)
Vinyl: Percy Sledge's Greatest Hits and German Beer Drinking Music (from a local thrift store). First non used record that I ever bought was either Pixies' Doolittle or La Düsseldorf's s/t (2009).

cassette: soundtrack to Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
CD: Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club
vinyl: ordered together from Newbury comics because I was planning to get a record player... didn't get one for another seven years - Boss Hog's self-titled album and the Dropkick Murphy's second album

From the other thread, before I bailed on my legal name and assumed the role of JF...

Unfortunately, I remember them all.

First vinyl: El DeBarge "Who's Jonny" 45
First cassette (Christian): Stryper "Soldiers Under Command"
First cassette (Secular): Heart "Bad Animals"
First cd: Shakespear's Sister "Hormonally Yours"

― paul cox (paul cox), Saturday, February 15, 2003

if not for that mishap, I probably would have continued with cassettes for a couple more years

I can dig this. I really didn't mind cassettes. If I hadn't started seeking music beyond what Kmart stocked, at much the same as cassettes were losing shelf-space with even the million-sellers, I suspect I would have been content with them for quite some time.

"at much the same TIME as"

vinyl: the police - regatta de blanc
cassette: the (english) beat - wha’ppen
cd: bob mould - workbook

Cassette: Def Leppard - Pyromania ('89)
LP: not sure, possibly a $1 copy of Billy Joel's Glass Houses at a flea market
CD: Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair

(only one I still have is the police album)

I'd gotten it on cassette a few days earlier, but I accidentally hit record for a few seconds during the intro of "Smells Like Teen Spirit", so I returned to Strawberries as *defective*

if you managed to record over it then surely it was defective, unless your cassette recorder was itself defective or you broke the write-protection tabs off for some reason?

other way round - the tabs wouldn't have been there, you had to put tape over the holes to record over anything you bought

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

Obviously my answer hasn't changed from that thread, so:

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).

― Tuomas, 24. heinäkuuta 2014 19:45 Bookmark

Oh, sorry, I didn't notice Brad C had already linked to that thread.

This was the first 7 inch I bought for myself, by myself.
https://youtu.be/JkRKT6T0QLg

(I'd gotten it on cassette a few days earlier, but I accidentally hit record for a few seconds during the intro of "Smells Like Teen Spirit", so I returned to Strawberries as *defective* and replaced it with the CD version. if not for that mishap, I probably would have continued with cassettes for a couple more years

First LP I ever bought:

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CD: Weezer, blue album. At Camelot Music, Westgate Mall, Fairview Park, OH.
cassette: Goo Goo Dolls, "Name" single. For a Kris Kringle gift in grade school. At Sam Goody (same mall -- two record shops in one mall...how times have changed)

First 7" single bought with own money - Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal (though for some reason I already had maybe 50 singles people had bought for me by that point, usually 'lucky dip' bags of unsold ones from the record shop in the market)
First tape - Now! 10
First CD - a cover CD from Q magazine called 'Sweet 16' or maybe it was 'Automatic For The People'

vinyl: wham!- fantastic
cassette: queen's greatest hits
cd: public enemy - it takes a nation of millions....

Oh and first LP probably Brit Awards 1990

Pet Shop Boys - Disco - the remix album which I bought in the cassette format cos ultra-modernist.

CD: Weezer, blue album. At Camelot Music, Westgate Mall, Fairview Park, OH.
cassette: Goo Goo Dolls, "Name" single. For a Kris Kringle gift in grade school. At Sam Goody (same mall -- two record shops in one mall...how times have changed)

― Sam Weller, Thursday, January 31, 2019 8:25 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

When I worked at Sam Goody, we had a Sam Goody and a Musicland at either end of the mall - the exact same store. Weird thing was, we didn't even know each other except occasionally when the managers would send one of us over to borrow supplies or something. Anytime I would go over there, I would feel the glare on me like I was some weird interloper.

from the other thread:
first 7": "Too Shy" by Kajagoogoo
first LP: Rhythm of the Night by DeBarge
first CD: the Stone Roses (I ordered the LP but the store inadvertently got me the CD. Made a tape copy through my parents' CD-player to be able to listen to it in my room)
to add first cassette, I think I only ever bought one prerecorded one: Nirvana - In Utero

other way round - the tabs wouldn't have been there, you had to put tape over the holes to record over anything you bought

oops, it's been a long time

Tape: Erasure - ABBA-Esque EP
CD: Now! 23
Vinyl: Nirvana - Come as You Are 12"

my tapes were largely inherited from my parents, earliest thing i can remember asking them to buy me was either green day’s dookie or tlc’s craxysexycool

first cd: tlc, ooooh on the tlc tip

what about your friends?

CDs: The Premiere Collection: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Bonnie Tyler's Faster Than the Speed of Night. I was pretty cool.

cassette: California Raisins Sing the Hit Songs (this was great... I had no one around to get me into soul/r&b)
CD: I think it was Hammer's Too Legit to Quit
vinyl: probably a 90s press of Sgt Pepper, or an Underworld 12" (I recall some website that had a $5 or $10 off coupon that I abused to get *free* singles)

45: Toni Basil - "Mickey" (second: Joe Jackson - "Steppin' Out")
LP: not sure but I know I lobbied hard for Men at Work Business as Usual when it came out and counted down the days til I could buy it so probably that?
cassette: She's So Unusual or Thriller can't remember
CD: Depeche Mode 101 (a 2-CD set!) & Pretty Hate Machine (purchased in a monster musical spending spree iirc)
mp3: ??

First 45 I bought was either the Kingsmen's "Louie Louie" with the Isley Brothers' "Shout" on the B-side, or Tom Petty's "Don't Come Around Here No More." I got both of those around the same time.
First LP I bought I don't remember for sure, but it was probably by Judas Priest, as I started listening to them when I was about 11 or 12. If that's the case, it was either Point of Entry or Unleashed in the East.
First cassette? No idea. I loved cassettes as a kid and had a fucking ton of them.
First CDs I definitely remember, because I wanted "stuff that would sound good on CD," which in my mind was Sinead O'Connor's The Lion and the Cobra and Frank Zappa's Jazz From Hell, bought at the same time.

First vinyl: Oliver and Company soundtrack (I was like 7)

First cassette: Please Hammer, Don't Hurt Em

First cassingle: Beach Boys - Kokomo

First cd: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles soundtrack

First mp3 d/led: Dimmu Borgir - "Spellbound (by the Devil)

First Vinyl: On the same trip I purchased two albums - Overkill [Feel the Fire and Running Wild Branded & Exiled

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First Cassette: I entered the world of tapes with a Columbia House purchase of 11 albums for a penny. I am fairly confident I still owe them for not fulfilling my contract. I don't recall my initial order but I am quite sure Ozzy was involved.

First CD: I don't recall the first I purchased but I recall my first CD. It was Living Colour's Vivid which my sister purchased for me for Christmas the same year my brother inexplicably spent way too much money on gifts and bought me my first CD player.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0e/Living_Colour-Vivid.jpg

Grand Funk - Live Album

"Guess my age based on my first album purchase."

tape: Nevermind and Vs. at the same time, I think

CD: Matthew Sweet's 100% Fun, used. I already had Filter's Short Bus, which my sister had brought home for me from a yard sale.

tape: no idea but possibly Gang Of Four's "Another Day Another Dollar" (1983)
LP: Pink Floyd - The Wall (1979)
CD: Faust - 71 Minutes Of... (1990)

First CD: I don't recall the first I purchased but I recall my first CD. It was Living Colour's Vivid which my sister purchased for me for Christmas the same year my brother inexplicably spent way too much money on gifts and bought me my first CD player.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, January 31, 2019 5:24 PM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Vivid was one of my first CDs and I got it as a Christmas gift! I also got Bobby McFerrin's Simple Pleasures that year (from a different giver).

first LP: when I was 6 I bought Goofy Greats, a K-Tel compilation that, I found out years later, was pressed a bunch of times with different track listings.

first cassette: Rush, A Farewell To Kings. Got a Walkman for my 10th birthday, needed something to play on it. I already loved Hemispheres, and was eager to hear Book I of Cygnus X-2 or whatever the fuck it was called.

first CD: age 16, saw an Italian bootleg of the Who's April '68 Fillmore East show(s), bought it maybe 8-10 months before I got a CD player.

I don't remember. I "inherited" a lot of my mom's collections and would make mixtapes of my favorite songs from my dad's collection, and those were like "my" albums for a long time.

The first music I purchased with my own money could have been literally anything. I was nine in 1990 and all I had was a top fourty station that sometimes played decent hiphop. It was probably a Michael Jackson cassingle. I have no idea, honestly. The transition from making due with what I picked up from my parents and developing my own idea of what I liked was pretty seamless and integrated and I honestly just remember listening to the radio a lot, in hopes they would play anything with rapping instead of singing. But I liked Bell Biv Devoe and Boyz II Men and all that stuff, too.

Cassette: Hammer - Too Legit to Quit
CD: Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves

Can't quite recall. Possibly Big Shiny Tunes 2.

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Cassette: Tiffany - s/t
CD: P.M. Dawn - Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross

cassette : Pink Floyd - Relics (cheap MFP version that I picked up in Woolworths/Ilkley. I seem to recall it had an outer cardboard foldout sleeve !?)
vinyl : probably Madness - One Step Beyond (was given My Girl on 7" and that kickstarted the whole thing of buying records)
cd : probably Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Success cd single (did not have a cd player, but a friend did, and the cd single was 99p)

(note : all of these purchases are lost in the grey cells and I do not commit to them being 100% correct, but they were all very early purchases re each format.)

I'm sure I've done this before, but can't see a post on the other thread.

Vinyl: Elton John's Honky Chateau and Greatest Hits Vol.II
Cassette: not sure, possibly also Relics!
CD: Beethoven Symphony No.9 (Berlin Phil/von Karajan)

First single: hot chocolate/girl crazy
First album (on tape): janet jackson/control

Damn I had good taste. Lol

First single: Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water (45 RPM)
First LP - Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits (on 8-track tape; first vinyl LP was something by the Osmond Brothers)
First cassette: AC/DC - Power Age
First CD - The Cure - Staring At The Sea (or Standing On The Beach, whatever it was called)

Parents had White Album and Sgt. Peppers, so I bought Magical Mystery Tour and thought "whelp, that about all I need". Next I bought The Kids are Alright soundtrack, and thought, "okay, now I'm done."