What's the very first album you ever bought?

I had a very large poster of Marc Bolan in my bedroom too.

I am very old! :)

* = I am pretty sure this was a Hanukkah present.

Damn, Google amazes me sometimes.

then i got 'achtung baby' which i loved. there may have been a '100% hits' in there somewhere too. i used to buy them for my friends as birthday presents but before i wrapped it up nicely and gave it to them i'd tape a copy for myself.

The first album I got was....Supergrass-In It For the Money. Then I forget after that. First single I got was like this year! Underworld-Two Months Off, but I've bought Cosmos-Take Me With You and Colorsound-Fly With Me since then.

£4.29 on tape from woolies in tewkesbury, 1984.

andy

I think it was poison - open up & say...ahh!

I will now die of shame.

liscense to ill, natch.

(speaking of this topic: all you motherfuckers who owe me something for my zine better get in touch or you're outta the family.)

Let's see -- with my own money? Duran Duran's Rio, I think.

-- Josh (kortbein@e...), October 18th, 2002.

This explains so much.

The Beatles 1967-70, double vinyl, summer 1973. Which makes "Strawberry Fields Forever" Side One, Track One of my whole collection. I like that.

Given to me: Madness - Complete Madness, about 1983?

Bought by me: Beatmasters - Anywayawanna, 1989

can't remember exactly. prob steve reich, 18 musicians, maybe sonic youth evol. tho it could've been agharta + tago mago, i bought those around the same time

lol j/k

tbh it was disc 2 from zeppelin's song remains the same, ha, i bought that shit off my older brother for like $10. just disc 2. he was a dick then and totally knew he was ripping me off. he did that shit all the time. i think i bought a copy of 'achtung baby' for like $12 from him, but it was a copy that he stole from the library and had all the security and call number stickers still on it

Elton John's Honky Chateau and Greatest Hits Vol.II on the same day.

Still trying to think of the first album I bought, as opposed to was given.

hm, i've nevah posted on this thread? well, the first record bought was t.rex - electric warrior lp
sometime in '75 or '76, i think; the price, which was all black market 'n shit, was 'xactly 40 roubles.

so gazza's post way way upthread (The Slider- T Rex. I had a very large poster of Marc Bolan in my bedroom too. I am very old! :) ― gazza, reede, 18. Oktoober 2002)was kinda heart warming to read, too.

.. I'm thinking it was Wizzard Brew by Wizzard.

DeBarge - Rhythm of the Night, in '85.

Think it might have been the Beatles' "blue" (67-70).

Janet Jackson - control

Still trying to think of the first album I bought, as opposed to was given.

You're all so young.

Dressed to Kill by Kiss.

bah, 1977 for me! Rock 'n' Roll Over by Kiss. also 13th birthday (thanks, sis). also would have bought on my own anyway.

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Songs In the Key of Life, unless the actual physical task of standing in line and giving money to the clerk is the decisive literal requirement, in which case it's the Grease soundtrack (making it's third appearance on this thread.)

As a kid I remember jointly owning some tapes with my younger brother--MC Hammer, Kris Kross, Weird Al Yankovic. The first thing I recall pursuing on my own was the old 12-for-a-penny Columbia House deal. Do not remember it all, but included were:
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better
Eazy E - EAZY-DUZ-IT
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
Wreckx-N-Effect - Hard Or Smooth

So wish I could remember the rest.

^^Eazy might have been later, tbh I dunno.

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Maybe a Beatles 45 but my big sister usually had that duty. I did have a copy of "Great Balls of Fire" on 45 that my mother finally just tossed out the window because I played it so much but that came out when I was five, I think so I probably didn't buy that one myself.

Snap! - World power.
I was 8.

First album bought for me: "Mickey Mouse Disco"

Heh, Mickey Mouse Disco! Detroit's Channel 50 used to run that advert 74 times a day back around '79-80. Watch out for Goofy!

(Not laughing at Alfred's ownership, mind, just the very existence of the album itself. My own dozen-or-so children's LPs were less hip than that one.)

Oh, I can still hum "Welcome to Rio" and "Macho Duck" for you.

I remember "Macho Duck".

They really didn't understand the Village People, did they?

ysi?

chicago's greatest hits. i was 8 or 9

Either Boyz II Men "Cooleyhighharmony" or MC Hammer "Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'em"... First cassingle was I think Bad English "When I See You Smile".....

First LP owned: Hans Christian Anderson's stories (1981) - green vinyl!

First cassette bought with own money: Now That's What I Call Music 7 (1986)

First 7" bought with own money: Ferry Aid - 'Let It Be' (1987)

First CD - The Cure - 17 Seconds (1989) - still my favourite album ever, very deliberately chosen so I could always say it in situations like this :-)

first album i ever asked for, but was never given because my dad read the lyrics: RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magik

first album i ever asked for and actually got (thanks to my mom, a year later): Nirvana - In Utero

i don't remember the first album i ever bought because i already had a ton of CDs that i got for free from my mom's CD warehouse catalog things

first 7": "only sixteen" -dr. hook (my next door neighbor for the past dozen years or so coincidentally played lead guitar with them then (Rik Elswit, very nice egg)

first album purchase: Trying to get the feeling - Barry Manilow (guess i was a cheese fan early on)
i normally claim Kiss' rock'n'roll over, my second purchase, as being my actual first....

I think it was the first Steve Martin album, but I can't remember for sure.

I think 'Boston' was the first that I asked for but the first I bought with my own money was 'Parallel Lines'.

YAH! KISS fanboys (and gurls) reprazent! btw, i think my sister may have had that Barry Manilow record.

I think it was Green Day - Dookie. I believe I actually tossed both of my Green Day albums in the trash one day.

Van Halen "1984". I need to get "Hot For Teacher" back in my life, actually.

The very first LP (or at least the very first LP purchased with my own allowance) was Styx's "Kilroy Was Here." While not a Styx fan, I had an enormous crush on this girl in my Grade 6 class who had made it very clear that "Kilroy" was her favourite album. After being invited to her birthday party, I begged my mom to take me to the local Sam the Record Man (a now-defunct chain of Canadian record stores) so I could buy the album. I spent the next few days memorizing every single lyric, thinking I could impress her - and win her heart - through my deep knowledge of "Kilroy." While the album was played at the party - and I mouthed every single word - she didn't give me a second look.

If memory serves it would be The Cars debut on vinyl. Before that I owned a Jim Croce 45 and The Beatles 67-70 on 8 track. Can't really recall any other early titles.

Throbbing Gristle, 20 Jazz Funk Greats, when I was 8

ok, it was A-ha, Stay on These Roads

Let me guess: you surreptitiously slipped the TG album under your coat when the cashier was ringing up the A-ha?

Throbbing Gristle, 20 Jazz Funk Greats, when I was 8

When did Bobby Gillespie start posting on ILM?

Bobby wouldn't need to have bought that album as I believe he plays the marimba on it.

Binjominia's tale of woe deserves to be a concept album in it's own right.

Bobby wouldn't need to have bought that album as I believe he plays the marimba on it.

"Naw, it wisnae a marimba, it wis wan 'o thae wee glockenspiel things, I swapped some cunt it in nursery school fer some Play-Doh"

Bought at my bequest, it was the Little Shop of Horrors soundtrack. Bought with my own money but by a parent, it was Licensed to Ill. Actually bought by myself it was Appetite for Destruction.

Kiss Alive!at a local chain called 1812 Overture around 1978

the good feeling music of the big chill generation

First album I bought for myself was Steppenwolf - Second (with "Magic Carpet Ride", my gateway drug, along with "Mrs. Robinson"). I had previously been given Sgt. Pepper and The Doors - Waiting For The Sun for consecutive birthdays, and I had appropriated my parents' copy of Bookends. Shortly thereafter, I bought Beggar's Banquet and The Doors.

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