What was the first music you ever bought?

[Rush2112]

Sgt Pepper's. Cassette. Whatever the record store that was on main street in Lake Placid in 1986.

First CD was the Stone Roses self-titled. I was gifted a copy of U2's War and Under A Blood Red Sky a few months earlier.

[HaulCitgo]

Thriller. Fat boys.

[Steve of phpBB]

Styx, Grand Illusion

Kansas, Point of Know Return

There were a couple of 45s before that but I don’t remember which.

[garyclark]

First three records: AC/DC - Back in Black, Michael Jackson - Thriller, Bobby Brown - My Prerogative

[Ryan]

Licensed to Ill and Raising Hell

[Giff]

Lenny Kravitz’ Are You Gonna Go My Way and Republic by New Order.

[sancarlos]

If you count “ordered through your mom’s Columbia record club account”, it would be Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu. First I bought with my own money was The Grass Roots - Greatest Hits.

[DaveInSeattle]

Don't remember my first music purchase as a kid (probably something embarrassing like Bay City Rollers), but remember the first 5 CD's that I bought when I got my first CD player...summer of '87 when I started getting paychecks from my first real job at Boeing.

Pat Metheny Group - Travels (the double live album)
Paul Simon - Graceland
U2 - Joshua Tree
XTC - Skylarking
REM - Document

It was the REM album that made me buy the CD player. I had decided I wasn't buying another album until I had a CD player, and then the new REM was coming out.

[GoodKarma]

Same situation for me…I don’t remember cassettes but I do remember first CDs:

Def Leppard - Hysteria
Poison - Open Up and Say Ahh

[Shirley]

I'm pretty sure my first album purchase was when I was probably about 9 or so. I had some money, maybe from a birthday, so I went the music section of K-Mart. I wanted to be cool and buy an album like my older sister, but when I got there, I realized I didn't really know many bands. I recognized the Bee-Gees though, and bought an album of theirs. I knew no songs on it. When I played it at home, I didn't really like any of it. Good first music lesson.

Later, when I was a bit older, I made my first real album purchase - Paradise Theater by Styx. It was a super cool record with laser engravings on it that showed a picture when you moved it around.

[Jerloma]

Soundtrack to the movie, Breakin'.

[The Sybian]

First cassette was License to Ill. Someone mentioned the Fat Boys, I forgot I bought Crushin'. First CD was ACDC Greatest Hits.

[degenerasian]

Thriller cassette when I was 7

[L-Jam3]

Vinyl Album: Thriller, Michael Jackson

Cassette: She’s So Unusual, Cindy Lauper

CD: Rhythm Nation 1814, Janet Jackson

Digital Purchase: If I Were a Carpenter, Various Artists

New Resurgence of Vinyl: Rumours, Fleetwood Mac

[sancarlos]

Don't remember my first music purchase as a kid (probably something embarrassing like Bay City Rollers), but remember the first 5 CD's that I bought when I got my first CD player...summer of '87 when I started getting paychecks from my first real job at Boeing.

Pat Metheny Group - Travels (the double live album)
Paul Simon - Graceland
U2 - Joshua Tree
XTC - Skylarking
REM - Document

It was the REM album that made me buy the CD player. I had decided I wasn't buying another album until I had a CD player, and then the new REM was coming out.

My first cd (one of two I bought at the same time) was also REM. Life’s Rich Pageant. I also bought the Best of Squeeze.

[Nonlinear FC]

I have no idea, but when I was first getting into music, I was part of two groups:


Ozzy Osborne, J Giels, ACDC etc.

Whoudini, Run DMC, Eric B, etc.

There's literally no telling.

[bfj]

Compact Discs
Dark Side of the Moon
Stop Making Sense

I don’t remember the music I bought when I was a kid, but I wish I had my 45’s collection still. I did remember buying Steve Martin’s Let’s Get Small record as a kid though. Probably wasn’t first, but what a great comedy record.

[A_B]

First cassette I recall is Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet. I also got an LL Cool J very early (Walking with a Panther?) and I THINK my first CD was bought in college and it was Tom Petty's wildflowers.

My house already had most of the Billy Joel catalog already, but I do recall finally finding Cold Spring Harbor at a used record place when I was 20-21 or so.

[Steve of phpBB]

Compact Discs
Dark Side of the Moon
Stop Making Sense

I don’t remember the music I bought when I was a kid, but I wish I had my 45’s collection still. I did remember buying Steve Martin’s Let’s Get Small record as a kid though. Probably wasn’t first, but what a great comedy record.

One of my earliest records was Wild and Crazy Guy, after King Tut got so popular.

[bfj]

Compact Discs
Dark Side of the Moon
Stop Making Sense

I don’t remember the music I bought when I was a kid, but I wish I had my 45’s collection still. I did remember buying Steve Martin’s Let’s Get Small record as a kid though. Probably wasn’t first, but what a great comedy record.

One of my earliest records was Wild and Crazy Guy, after King Tut got so popular.

That was a great album. It's probably still in my mom's house.

[govmentchedda]

No real clue, but I'm pretty sure early CD purchases for me were En Vogue's Funky Divas, Pearl Jam's Ten, and Tony! Toni! Tone!'s The Revival. Must've gotten a walkman in the early 90's.

[The Sybian]

First cassette I recall is Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet. I also got an LL Cool J very early (Walking with a Panther?) and I THINK my first CD was bought in college and it was Tom Petty's wildflowers.

My house already had most of the Billy Joel catalog already, but I do recall finally finding Cold Spring Harbor at a used record place when I was 20-21 or so.

Totally forgot I bought Walk Like a Panther! We were on vacation and I left the cassette sitting out on the night table. When we came back to the room, it was gone! I knew the maid stole it, and my father wouldn’t report it. I was so pissed! “Tina’s got a big ole butt, so I’m leaving you!” Man, just read the lyrics… horrible that’s what I listened to at 13 yo. Probably didn’t fully understand it. And man, bragging about trolling g a high school to pick up girls? I don’t care how big Brenda’s butt was, not Cool LL.

[Giff]

The maid stole it = your dad threw it out.

[The Sybian]

The maid stole it = your dad threw it out.

Funny, but I doubt it.

[A_B]

You don't get a name like The Sybian if....you know what, I'm gonna stop.

[EnochRoot]

I’m pretty sure the first LP I ever bought with my own money (I was 8-ish) was the Rolling Stones’ 2 LP compilation, ‘Hot Rocks’.

I was off to the races buying Stones albums after that. Zeppelin soon afterward. By the time I was 10 my mom helped me get into one of those tape clubs, and soon after I was into Foreigner, Boston, Thin Lizzy, BÖC, Styx, etc.

[Sabo]

Cassette: Hall and Oates, Rock ‘n Soul, Part 1.
CD: The Cure, Disintegration