What is the first LP/CD you bought with your own $

[Manny Calavera]

Beatles 'Help' Vinyl back in 1983

 

[Lord Chaos]

Mason Williams' "Phonograph Record." 1970, when I was going to college.

 

[Thelonious Monk]

metallica - ride the lightning

not ashamed of it at all.

 

[elrod-tom]

I'm not certain, but I'm pretty sure that it was The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band...Either that or More of the Monkees

 

[RasmusseN]

ZZ Top - Greatest Hits

 

[Combat Audio]

My first CD purchase was Metallica's Black Album and Nirvana's Nevermind. Seems like a long time ago.

 

[Kees]

Iron Butterfly: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.
With that drum solo that never leaves your head again once you've heard it. Ever.

 

[jonnyhambone]

First album was Flash Gordon soundtrack (by Queen) and Billy Joel, 'The Stranger' (oddly, I bought these both at the same time as a 10 year old).

First CD was John Mayall 'The Turning Point' (still great)

First cassette was Bad Brains 's/t' (when Roir only released cassettes)

 

[Comfy]

KISS - Animalize

 

[Lord Chaos]

First CD... hmm... I went to a store to buy a cassette deck in the summer of 1985 and ended up with a Kenwood CD player. Of course now I needed discs. There was a record store nearby with a small CD section.

Which CD was first I don't remember. One of the early ones was "Genesis." And I called Warner Brothers to find out when "Phonograph Record" would be available on CD... they told me it would "soon."

 

[Hardwired]

Geeze, the first album I bought for myself was a Partridge Family album. Susan Dey was so hot...

 

[AndrewB]

Pink Floyd- The Wall. brandy new the Tuesday it was released.

forgot to mention that was on a double LP, not CD.

 

[cwell2112]

Nirvana - Nevermind on CD when I was 14 or 15

 

[BayouSlide]

The LP "Jimi Hendrix Smash Hits," back in the summer of 1970 or 1971.

Remember where I was, just not the exact year...a common enough problem for those of us growing up in that era, even more so now that the synapses have grown foggy from the purple haze of the passing decades

 

[weste47]

First Cd was Europop by Eiffel 65

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First Tape was Tubthumper by Chumbawamba