In what year did non-yuppies start buying CD's in large numbers?

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I've read a lot how in 1986 and 1987 yuppies would start to replace their worn-out Steely Dan and Beatles LP's with compact disks, but I'm curious about when the CD craze trickled down to the middle-class and their children.

I remember seeing vinyl on sale at Spec's and Peaches as late as 1990, even though by then it was an endangered species. At the time I bought more cassettes than CD's cuz I couldn't afford the latter, but I hated the sound; if there was a vinyl copy of an album I wanted, I'd buy it instead (I treasure my copies ofTraveling Wilburys "Vol. 1" and Peter Murphy's "Deep").

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

seems to be it would have been 1990. not going by anything ive read, just by what ive SEEN. before then, all the common folk i knew were like: "i got the ALBUM at home," or "im listening to the TAPE right now." after the nineties started, thats when i noticed that even the burger flipper at the diner was buying CDs.

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

I remember all vinyl being in the cutout/discontinued racks in 1989. (Some great deals were had that year.) I bought my first CD (Go-Betweens 1979-1988 or whatever the years are) in 1989- I did not have a CD player at the time.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

i bought cds well before i had a player .. i knew i'd stump up for a machine at some point. first purchase on cd was probably one of Sputniks cd singles (Success/Albinoni) .. and the pattern was set .. so that would make it 88 when i really kicked into the habit.

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

I bought everything on tape or vinyl up until 1990 when I bought a CD player and started buying CDs. My first CD was the Best of Oingo Boingo - which contained songs that I already had on various cassettes. Then I joined Columbia House and got a bunch of CDs through that.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

my first cd was beatles "abbey road "then 6 months i bought a cd player and bought prince "graffitti bridge" in 1989.
it was a 6 disc changer .

― lyndi cauper, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

i bought cds well before i had a player ..

SO when did you buy a player? I can't imagine for a long time, I'd go bonkers!

― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

My mother bought me my first CD -- MC Hammer's "Please Don't Hurt Em Hammer" -- for Christmas. It was partly a joke, but that was a time when Hammer was actually cool.

My first CD that I picked out for myself was Weezer's blue album.

C/D?: CD's that were produced in that first wave that have the explanation of what a "Compact Disc" is and how to care for it inside the booklet.

― PB, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

The Beatles catalog being released on CD during 1986 and 1987 was the watershed moment (at the time it seemed very strange that it took so long to get them on CD). After that, CDs became much more popular, and by 1989 or 1990 they were selling in large numbers to everybody. I'm sure there are stats around showing when CDs began selling more copies than tapes.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

We caved in and upgraded our stereo to CD standard in 1991. I think the deciding factors were Kick Out The Jams being reissued on CD only, and the extra track on Nevermind you didn't get on vinyl or tape.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

When I was 14 or 15 I had a modest boom box, and of course at that time (83 and 84) they make boom boxes with CD players. So I would tape my LPs and CDs on my brother's stereo to listen to in my room. He was very into hi-fi and I don't think he would have let me buy store-bought tapes. Seems very odd now but at the time I wax excited by how good chrome tapes of CDs would sound vs. chrome tapes of LPs (no surface noise).

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

upon my return from finland in summer of 1990 i was flush with -cash so got myself a sony discman .. big and chuncky that lasted for fuckin years. reason was cos there was special offer to get 3 cds from the newly acquired Sony back cat .. i chose : This is Big Audio Dynamite, The The Mindbomb, The Clash - London Calling.

do they still do those CBS discs with the Red Plastic inner tray ?

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

Boom boxes with CD playes in 1984? Wow!

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

I forgot the word "didn't" in there. The boom box was tape & radio.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

I remember the first time I heard a CD was like in 1986 or 1987 - and I don't think there were any boomboxes with them before that.

xpost

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

the first CD I ever bought with my own money was Michael Penn's "March."

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

I don't remember my family having a CD player before 1993 (we got this then-impressive massive JVC stereo system), and before that I don't remember hearing music on anything but cassettes. I can't remember vinyl ever being played.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

Some friends of the family bought a CD player component for their stereo system in like 1986 or so, and they played us the Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture with the cannons - the cannons were so deep and clear on the CD, they sounded like the real thing.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

What was the first one you acquired (as a gift from grandma?) otherwise?

xpost alfred

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

I didn't own my own CD player until Xmas of 1992 (I woudl borrow the family stereo or copy the CD's onto cassettes), so it was probably in 1992 that my parents bought me CD's. It may have been R.E.M's "Automatic For The People."

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

First CD was Springsteen Born to Run (which I think was also my first LP). Probably 1985. Still have it and it plays fine.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

And geyser – much love for buying a Go-Betweens album first.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

About 1990 sounds right. I think I bought my first CD in 1989 or 1990, and bought a CD player in 1991. I remember my CD-player-owning room-mate in 89-90 saying something like "Where were you planning on playing that?" when I brought home my first CD during a time when we were at each other's throats. Which actually means 1990, most likely.

In fact, amazingly, I think my first CD was an Oum Kalthoum CD, and this was before I had gotten really interested in Arabic music. I was mostly just curious about this figure who was so well-represented at Philadelphia's Tower Records at the time (and whose name I kept coming across elsewhere).

― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

Anyone else remember the hilarious (with hindsight) preview of CDs on 'Tomorrow's World'? They demonstrated how robust the new format was compared to vinyl, first by deliberately scratching the disc and secondly by smearing butter and jam on its underside. The CD still played, skip-free.

P.S. Since I'm too young to really remember, what was it like the first time you actually HEARD a CD?

― D.G. Jones (D.G. Jones), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

"I've read a lot how in 1986 and 1987 yuppies would start to replace their worn-out Steely Dan and Beatles LP's with compact disks"

This doesn't sound right to me at all. I could have sworn that (in the US anyway) the Beatles didn't get to CD for several years after that. I definitely remember getting my first CD player in 1987 and no Beatles CDs being available.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

the first time you actually HEARD a CD?
Some rich prep in college had a david bowie CD. We sat in his room and he played changesonebowie .. I remember thinking, "Big fucking deal". I still think that, except I'm a big fan of convenience and car CD players.

I had a really scratched up 45 of Incense and Peppermints that I played on my radio show the next day.. I said it was on CD.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

... entirely plausible, given the numbers of CDs which are remastered from vinyl

― Bifidus Digestivum (Dada), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

Really? I thought only shoddy bootleg CDs or very old stuff where there is no other source would be direct transfers from vinyl.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Beatles reissues started in either late 86 or early 87 (at least in the US). I know because they did them in order, and such a big deal was made of Sgt. Peppers being reissued in June 1987, on the anniversary of the original release, when it was indeed "20 Years Ago Today..." No newspaper could resist that headline. That was some brilliant marketing.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

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― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Really? I thought only shoddy bootleg CDs or very old stuff where there is no other source would be direct transfers from vinyl.

The entire Trojan catalogue to thread

― Bifidus Digestivum (Dada), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Well, I guess if they don't have access to the master tapes, then it's the only viable option.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

Of course, but nicer if they make some effort to find decent vinyl copies to master from. Also, I wouldn't mind being told when a CD is remastered from vinyl and that certainly doesn't always happen.

― Bifidus Digestivum (Dada), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

Feb 1987 were the first Beatles CDs:

26/02/87 CD Parlophone CDP 7 46435 2 Please Please Me
26/02/87 CD Parlophone CDP 7 46436 2 With The Beatles
26/02/87 CD Parlophone CDP 7 46437 2 A Hard Day's Night
26/02/87 CD Parlophone CDP 7 46438 2 Beatles For Sale

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

I got a stereo for my 18th which was discounted because it was the last "posh" Pioneer hifi without a CD player. This was in 1991. I didn't have a CD player of my Very Own until 1995.

― jim (jim5et), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

1989 sounds right to me. My family bought a CD boombox, and I swear for about 9 months we only had one CD -- Paul Simon's Graceland. I remember gathering around it like it was the new moving picture box or something -- even inviting neighbors over to try it.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

the year punk broke

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

My friend's dad had a cd player around 1986 - I remember listening to Stevie Wonder and playing foosball.

I got one for my birthday in 91 along with a copy of are you experienced, which I already had on tape and proceeded to trade in for rock for light.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

As best I recall, 1987 was the year CD sales surpassed vinyl and cassette in MONETARY terms, and then by unit sales a year later.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

First cds: PiL "Second Edition" and Misfits collection (1989)

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

i think i got my first cd player for xmas 91. (haha i believe my first cd was achtung baby omg wtf.)

― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure there are stats around showing when CDs began selling more copies than tapes.

1988. I remember being kind of surprised it was that early. (Xpost)

I got my first CD player in 1985, and I remember my mom buying the Beatles CDs as they were reissued (she and her friends were all upset that Hard Day's Night (or was it Help!?) was in mono on CD), and the "20 years ago today" marketing aspect. She may still have the Sgt Pepper longbox with the cutout goodies, too.

I feel old.

― Vic Funk, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

first CD bought: Nirvana/Jesus Lizard split single, "Oh The Guilt/"Liar(? can't recall the song title but some of the lyrics were "Give me something to stop the bleeding")"

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone remember the ad that went something like "Don't listen to your new wave on punk tapes"?

― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha no, but I do fondly recall "Home Taping Is Killing Music"!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Christ, the music industry sucks and always has done

― Bifidus Digestivum (Dada), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00000DRBV.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Not released on vinyl.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

First cd player of my own was Christmas of 1993. My first cds were all presents that same Christmas and were U2 - Zooropa, US3 - Hand on the Torch, and the real winner: Boyz II Men - Christmas Interpretations. I had played the cassingle of "Motown Philly" to death and I guess my Mom thought the Christmas album would've been just as much a treat to my ears. I never even listened to Christmas Interpretations all the way through. In fact, I honestly don't think I listened past the second song. I sold it to the record store promptly upon arriving at college in 1996. The U2 and US3 cds also went the way of the sell-back over the next few years. That still feels wrong.

― matt2 (matt2), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Austin, those dates are sometimes second issues or whenever the CD entered a certain database. The rollout indeed began in early '87.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

Not released on vinyl.
there was a Vanilla Ice LP, but not as widely distributed as the CD

― michael (michael), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

I got a shelf stereo with a CD player in September, 1986, and the first CD I bought was New Order's Low-Life.

I saved up to get those first 4 Beatles reissues in Feb 87 and I clearly remember getting Sgt. Pepper's in early June, 1987, which was the 20th Anniversary of the original release. I set up my stereo in the kitchen and played the CD for friends and family. Hahahah.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

I guess Norway is a bit atypical (richer than most countries, and always crazy about new technology), but here, the CD was rather dominant by 1988 or 1989. The CD age started with people deciding to buy a CD player to listen to "Brothers In Arms" back in 85-86.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

I remember when Sam Goody stopped selling tapes. That was sad. I have at least one from 94.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

In 1987 a friend of mine said to me that he could get some decent CD players rather cheaply and did I want one, so I said 'oh.. ok.' Having got my player, my first purchase was Alexander O'Neal's 'Hearsay' album.

― Oak (small items), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

i got a portable cd player in 88, but I was, at the time, definitely the only person I knew who had one (not true a year and a half later). first cd was that live pink floyd double, delicate sound of thunder or whatever. what is interesting about that cd is that it got a massive fucking giant scrape across it, HUGE, like, you could practically see through the thing, and it didn't skip.

my first portable player (a sony) lasted two years. I don't think i ever had another one that lasted that long.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

As far as I remember, it was around 1988 that CDs became dominant. I don't remember when I heard one for the first time, but I remember a radio show in Montreal (prob a classical station) around 1984 making a REALLY BIG DEAL of playing laser discs (that's what they called CDs up there back then) like one hour a week. I first got a CD player around maybe 1992-93 and my first CD was a Yardbirds compilation from Australia.

― Patrick (Patrick), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

It was weird how hostile to vinyl a lot of average music listeners became in the late 80's. It was like "I have converted to CDs, therefore NO ONE EVER should have the chance to buy vinyl in stores anymore".

(still bitter about this)

― Patrick (Patrick), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

vinyl took up a lot of space in stores. Very good for smaller stores to move to CD.

― DAEREST V1CE MAGAZINE!!!!! (ex machina), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

Haha, Patrick makes the obvious parallel to today's "LOL @ anyone who pays money for CD's!!!" argument

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)

i'm gonna sound like a spoiled brat, but my parents bought me a CD/cassette player/radio for my 17th birthday (in 1987). then i went & ruined it by making my first CD purposes elvis costello's my aim is true and zz top's afterburner (and more shamefully, i lost afterburner long ago and still have that my aim is true cd). and in my hometown, i was LATE to the party -- a bunch of my friends already had CD players (though not most of my high school).

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

replace "purposes" w/ "purchases." the next purchase was run-dmc (which my sister stole years ago!)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

jon w VERY otm - a record store (haha - named "dreamboat annie's" - i guess they were heart fans) about the size of my living room opened up in watkinsville (at the time very small town outside athens), where i lived as a kid, in 89 - it only stocked cd's and cassettes, largely cuz of space issues but with the understanding that vinyl was 'on the way out' ie. it wasn't bizarre that they didn't stock vinyl. at this point i bought my albums on cassette (didn't get a cd player til 93), but i definitely still bought 12 inches. the store was about 3/4 of a mile from where i lived, i remember walking there to buy disintegration the day it came out and listening to it on the walk home.

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

haha weirdly enough EVERY record store in athens (or every record store that's primarily a record store ie. not best buy or circuit city or something) sells and stocks a good bit of vinyl.

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

also, by the time that i got to college (1988) just about EVERYONE that i knew had a CD player. i dunno whether that reflects larger trends or it was just that my college friends were all music geeks and/or spoiled brats.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

Sam Goodys and FYEs that I've seen still sell tapes, but the price is significantly higher than in the early 90s. For instance, American Idiot or The Massacre are both currently available on tape, but the cost is something like $12.49, a few cents less than the standard CD cost at Circuit City. So it would seem they're attempting to kill the demand for tapes by increasing the pricetag.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 03:51 (twenty years ago)

I remember my family was one of the first on our block to get a CD player. It must have been about 87/88 I guess. The first CDs I remember were the Beatles (which I'm pretty sure were the catalyst for the CD player purchase), Traveling Wilburys (which I suppose was a coupke years later), and the Beach Boys' "Endless Summer". I also remember that the other family with a CD player in 1987 had a 12 or 13 year old son who used to BLAST Guns n' Roses so loud that we could hear it SIX HOUSES down!

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 04:05 (twenty years ago)

I got my first CD player for my 11th birthday, May 1993. The first CDs I ever got were "The Simpsons Sing the Blues" (9th birthday present?), Genesis "We Cant Dance" and Kris Kross "Totally Krossed Out" (all before my CD player gift.)

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

Geir's '85-'86 wave of Dire Straits-driven early-adopters seems eerily OTM. First CD I remember listening to was Talking Heads' then-recent Little Creatures, owned by one such Dire Straits fan at about that time. First one I bought myself was probably the Pixies' Bossa Nova at the end of 1990, just as other formats seemed to be getting more scarce.

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

It's only around 1997 that I started buying primarily CDs. When they phased out vinyl, I went for cassettes 'cause CDs were too pricey. I still have 100's of albums, including many all-time faves, on tape. There's probably lotsa stuff in there that you wouldn't think ever came out on cassette (Sonny Sharrock and stuff).

― Patrick (Patrick), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms was a really big deal on CD because it was digitally recorded. That was when you started getting lots of columns and magazines reviewing CDs strictly on the basis of sound quality. Steely Dan was always on those early "best CDs" lists too.

― Patrick (Patrick), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

when did billboard do away with the seperate cd chart?

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

I actually remember that in the 1990 Guiness Book of Records, they pointed out that Dire Straits' "Brothers in Arms" (1986) was the first album to sell 1 million copies on CD.

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 04:43 (twenty years ago)

they have just recently re-released Dire Straits BIA to celebrate the fact.

in a spiffy new special Limited Edition Digipack !

thanks for that. no extra disc of outtakes, no demos. just a fragging digipack. (maybe with spruced up remastering ??)

no doubt that million will stump it up again for a fuckin' digipack that wont last as long as the original version.

suckers.

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

The first CD player I saw and heard was owned by a bloke in the same hall of residence as me at univ in 1983. He had a CD of Echo and The Bunnymen's Porcupine. I can't remember what else he had. I didn't buy a CD until about 1990.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 08:13 (twenty years ago)

I inherited my sister-in-law's Crown music-centre in the summer of '87 but I can't recall whether she and my brother had just upgraded their turntable (it was a Thorens) or bought the whole caboodle (Arcam CD player and amp) at that point. They certainly had the CD player by the time REM's Green came out the following year. I don't think of them as yuppies. I doubt my brother owned a pair of braces.

My first CD (which I had to get a friend to tape for me) was AR Kane's i - about three quid in a sale in Penny Lane Records in Liverpool in the spring of '90. I didn't have a CD player until late '93. The first disc I bought that I could play at home was the Tindersticks' debut album.

I can remember vinyl disappearing from some of the smaller branches of the chainstores by '92 or so, but it was always there in yr big HMVs and Virgins, albeit marginalised.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 08:50 (twenty years ago)

Was anyone here genuinely blown away by the sound quality when they first heard CD?

There used to be some weird deal with indie bands like Ash, Dodgy and The Supernaturals in the mid-late 90s releasing their albums incredibly cheaply on tape (like £3.99). Some kinda marketing ploy?

― D.G. Jones (D.G. Jones), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I remember that going on, it was very much a "debut album/give-'em-a-chance" marketing deal for people who hadn't quite got with the CD "revolution" yet. The CD versions would usually be going for about a tenner, which was cheap by mid-'90s standard but pretty much the average now.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

The last example of that trend I saw was the last-but-one Garbage album which retailed on tape for a fiver, and that was about three years ago.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

first CDs I ever got were "The Simpsons Sing the Blues" (9th birthday present?)

haha, that was the second CD my family owned...

― PB, Wednesday, 15 June 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

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