Post the first LP/CD/Other you bought on Amazon.

Today's meme on twitter is posting the first item in your Amazon order history. Mine was a set of desktop pc speakers from the end of 2005, which I actually still use to this day. But what was the first bit of music I bought from the Amazon megacorp?

Apparently on January 25, 2006, I *had* to procure a copy of <i>Go Commando with James F!@#$%^ Friedman</i> (?!!). I have zero recollection of ever even listening to this, much less owning a copy.

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What was yours?

Two John Coltrane box sets, one with seven discs and another with three, all live recordings from Europe from 1961-63 (except the 3CD set concluded with the only recording of Coltrane playing A Love Supreme in its entirety, in 1965), in November 2001:

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Oh nice.

I don't think I've ever bought music via Amazon but the first things I ever ordered online were Boss Hog's self-titled record and the first Dropkick Murphys from Newbury Comics. I accidentally ordered LPs instead of CDs so I had to carry them around for a couple of years until I got a record player.

First Amazon purchase was a copy of The Brothers Karamazov for a class.

my history has been erased, as everything is blank from 2003 - 2008. in 2008 it says i bought Parallel Lines first, which i know for a fact is not true. i could look through my emails to try and find stuff i bought in 2003 or 2004.

I wonder if I had a different account before 2005. I can't believe I never bought a cd from Amazon until 2006, but that's the information I had to go on.

Mine is Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, in September 2001, which is a bit of an odd one.

Someone I briefly went out with at the end of 2000 had put a GYBE song on a mix tape for me, and they were getting loads of rave reviews in the NME etc at the time. I bought that without ever hearing any of it, would've got it from Amazon because CDs were so expensive in the UK then that it was much cheaper to get it shipped from the US instead. Didn't really like it tbh.

My 2nd purchase a couple of weeks later probably more reflective of what I actually liked:

McCarthy - That's All Very Well But
Electro Group - A New Pacifica
Electric Eels - Their Organic Majesties Request
Sebadoh - Sebadoh vs Helmet

Japanese import CD of Sunny Murray’s Sonny’s Time Now, October, 1999.

Faust IV

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In late 2003 I picked up Robert Plant's 66 To Timbuktu comp to fill out an order for free shipping, and I gave it to my sister for Xmas.

The first thing I got for myself was the original Myrmidons of Melodrama collection by the Shangri Las the following spring.

it looks like i ordered the everything is nice matador records compilation, yo la tengo's painful, and ride the fader by chavez in january 2000. i had just turned 16.

Matastan.

First order, 1997, Chuck D's book. First music order, 2002, El-P, Fantastic Damage.

Matastan.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, May 15, 2021 10:53 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

hahah yes absolutely

The Haunted's self-titled debut album. first mail-order metal cd ever bought in 1999.

I just got a lil sad thinking about that :(

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Mine is Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, in September 2001, which is a bit of an odd one.

shiiiit, that was my evening soundtrack in 2001 lol

my life in the bush of ghosts CD, must have been 1997. Wondering now how I heard about amazon?

Looking back thru my early purchases, here’s one that’s a total mystery to me—I don’t recognize it, never had it on my shelf, don’t know why I would have bought it (was it a gift?):

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you self-hating Monty Alexander fans make me sick!

apparently SYR5 Kim Gordon / Ikue Mori / DJ Olive in 2000
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The first one Amazon shows me is for 2005; I can't remember if I had any earlier:

Björk - Drawing Restraint #9 [SOUNDTRACK]
Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]
Director's Label Series Boxed Set Vol. 2 (Mark Romanek, Jonathan Glazer, Anton Corbijn, Stéphane Sednaoui)

I don't remember it having as much difficulty with accent marks back then.

I have a stronger memory for Ebay, which I used before I had a credit card. I'm pretty sure my first winning auction there was an original of Fall in a Hole in 2001, from a seller in New Zealand. I sent US cash!

i didn't really buy music from amazon for years (and for a while i only pirated music). so, apparently, my first music amazon purchase was the cd of the swedish edition of robyn's self-titled album. i made the purchase in fall '07. i had gotten rly excited abt that album after the videos and such for its uk/international rerelease that included "with every heartbeat". i didn't want to wait for that edition to come out in the states (which apparently wasn't until early '08), and besides i wasn't fond of the newly remixed versions of some of the album cuts. so the import cd it was.

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this is the earliest on my amazon account, from jan 2005, suspect I had another amazon account before that though.

i probably ordered quite a few cds on my parents' account before this, but my first purchase on my own account was in 2006: charles mingus' the black saint and the sinner lady and death's the sound of perseverance

Looks like it was the Harry Nilsson box, £46 in 2013

December 2000:

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The end of 1999:

Luigi Nono - Como una ola de fuerza y luz... etc (Claudio Abbado et al)
Aluminum Group - Pedals
Nobukazu Takemura - Scope
Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

I'd favoured CDNow since 1995, but I think Amazon's international postage rates became attractive for a stretch. Amazon soon absorbed CDNow anyway.

It was either 'Bless You' by the Court and Spark (MC Taylor in pre Hiss Golden Messenger guise) or 'Song' by Lullaby for the Working Class on CD in 2001. Pringles had an Amazon promotion where there was a money off (£3?) code on the can - I ate a lot of crisps and bought a lot of CDs whilst it lasted.

The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette in Feb 2000.

Liza Minnelli: Results, July 2000. A decision I stand by!

Green Velvet compilation album on CD in 2002

The Flaming Lips' The Soft Bulletin, New Pornographers Twin Cinema, and Destroyer's Rubies on CD in September 2009.
I had previously purchased Jellyfish's Spilt Milk and Main Source's Breaking Atoms from a separate Amazon Marketplace seller in February of 2009.

Neil Young - On the Beach, summer 2003

My account only goes back to June 2011 - did I order anything before then? I don't know. Anyway, the first thing I actually bought was a good old SanDisk Sansa Clip mp3 player, used to love those things. The next purchase was "The Motown Years" 2CD by Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons in Feb. 2012. I basically hardly used Amazon until 2017 - I didn't order anything in 2016, for instance.

I can't find my history- must have been on an old email address. I miss the days when Amazon was a place to buy vinyl from sellers that had no idea what they had and/or did not care.

Jan. 5, 2008: 3 CDs — Another Mother Further and The Very Best of Mother's Finest, both by Mother's Finest; and Jailbreak by Thin Lizzy. A good haul! And no doubt related to ILM discussions. What I'm not sure of is why I ordered them from Amazon, because at the time I was still frequenting music stores a lot. My guess is I looked for Mother's Finest a few places and couldn't find it. Probably I just threw Jailbreak in as an add-on because I'd been meaning to pick it up.

I didn't use Amazon again for a long time (2010 I think?) as I used CDNow to mail order music

In May 1999 I bought Wilson Pickett's Greatest Hits, The Very Best of Booker T. and the MGs, and The Turtles Golden Hits, followed in December by Sparks' Indiscreet and Kimono My House.

First two purchases in 2001 were Cloud Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown by Alan Watts and Out of Here by Tim Keegan and Departure Lounge, which is a lovely record.

For reasons that escape me, I set up my account with a different user name than my own. I had completely forgotten about it until I submitted a problem with my Kindle and received a customer service phone call. Her first words were 'am I speaking to Marvin Hagler'? I nearly shat myself.

Pretty Hate Machine in June 2007. I was not very savvy about e-commerce in the 2000s. I pretty much only bought things that were available at record shops and figured that if I couldn't find it there, I was shit out of luck.

iirc most of my early online purchases were from cheap-cds.com

Didn't realize your order history went right back to the beginning. My first order from American Amazon was The String Quartet Tribute to the Velvet Underground + Nico, April 11, 2007. My first order from Canadian Amazon--which probably came along later; I pretty much only order from amazon.ca now--was the DVD of Sybil with Sally Fields, June 25, 2011; my first CD order was Here There & Everywhere: Songs of the Beatles, Nov. 26, 2011.

I had a real mania for collecting cover versions of the Beatles, the Velvet Underground, and Neil Young at the time.

First music ordered in early 2001: Del Shannon's The Further Adventures of Charles Westover and Here Come the Girls Volume 6 (girl group compilation). Both UK imports, which explains why I had to resort to Amazon.

First ever order in summer 2000 was a collection of short stories in Spanish.

Charles Westover forever

looks like it was Big Black - Rich Man's 8 Track Tape in March 2001, with a gift card. first time not using Mom's account, I guess.

November 2004, ordered the deluxe
2xCD reissue of Pavement's Crooked Rain and the Naxos 2xCD set of Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues (pianist: Konstantin Scherbakov) for myself, and the 5xCD Anthology of American Folk Music as a Christmas gift for my father.

First item was "Cronenberg on Cronenberg" in November 1999.

First CD was Burnt Weeny Sandwich by Zappa in March 2000.

ashra - live in japan ‘97 (this was not very good)
stereo image - s/t (don’t remember this at all)
para one - la naissance de pieuvres ost (great samey boards of canada esq soundtracky stuff)

First books:

amazon.com: Ryan Gilbey's It Don't Worry Me: The Revolutionary American Films of the Seventies (Oct. 8, 2008), $13.89 Canadian. That looks good, I should read that--no recollection whatsoever.

amazon.ca: Frank Kogan's Real Punks Don't Wear Black (August 3, 2013), $9.50 Canadian.

Three CD singles/EPs in May 2001:

‘In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country’ by Boards of Canada
‘The Modern Age’ by the Strokes
‘This is Just a Modern Rock Song’ by Belle and Sebastian

I'm pretty sure I had been buying from Amazon before 2000, but my order history only goes back to that year. I bought three CDs in August 2000:

Crooklyn Dub Consortium v. 1
Decentertainment by We
The Isolationist

In November of '99:

Tougher Than Tough: The Story of Jamaican Music

2003: Tallis Scholars 25th Anniversary

And then there's tracking how much you order (amazon.ca):

2011 - 3 orders placed
2012 - 8 orders placed
2013 - 13 orders placed
2014 - 26 orders placed
2015 - 12 orders placed
2016 - 22 orders placed
2017 - 30 orders placed
2018 - 9 orders placed
2019 - 21 orders placed
2020 - 44 orders placed
2021 - 15 orders placed (to date)

I'd estimate 10-15% of that as gifts.

oct 2002:

Sort Vokter - Folkloric Necro Metal

but the site is throwing errors for 2001 orders and pretty sure I ordered stuff before then anyway

I'm pretty sure the first time I used Amazon was in 2006 to buy a copy of Cardiacs' Sing To God. The next was Boredoms' Super Roots 7 on vinyl! At the time it was a good place to find OOP releases by bands without definite articles.