Do you still have the first album you bought in your collection?
 

I do, and I just wondered who else does. I know I went through some hard times when I was younger, and had to sell some of my albums --- for a pittance, to a secondhand record shop, and more than once --- and some got destroyed due to warping. But I still have the first album I ever bought, on red vinyl.
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Discovery by Electric Light Orchestra

I'd heard ELO on the radio and in the charts and absolutely loved their music. This had a lot of their chart hits at the time so I bought it as soon as I had the money and a record player, and it's still in my collection today. It was rapidly followed by most of the rest of their discography at the time, and started off my interest in orchestral accompaniment to rock or pop music.

So, how about you? If you're old enough to have bought it on vinyl like me, repurchasing it on CD or downloading it doesn't count: you have to have the original album you bought all those years ago. Do you? Is it in good condition still? Would it, or does it, still play? I always took care of my albums so the answer to both of those questions is yes, but I no longer have a turntable so have not played it in its original format for over twenty years.

I got POD's Satellite and Incubus's Morning View as my first two album. Satellite got destroyed through childhood shenanigans and I gave the Incubus album to my sister, not sure if she still has it. So no.

EDIT: This was before the vinyl resurgance so these were CDs.

I do in fact still have my For Those About To Rock Cd

I also have my first CD I bought, Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory.

The first recording of any kind that I ever bought was a cassette of REM's Document, which have away to a friend a few years ago because he had a tape deck in his car and I had the album in other formats. The first record I bought was Pink Floyd's Meddle which I think I still have. The first CD I ever bought was Bauhaus' Swing the Heartache: The BBC Sessions and I do still have that.

The first record I ever owned was Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out 45 rpm

Do you still have it?

He looks just like my cat Ritchie! ;)

On another subject, you mentioned a rodcast --- podcast I assume. I had often thought of doing one of those, but how do you get around copyright if you're playing music? Thought that was a no-no? I'd be interested in any information.
Thanks!

My advice: fuck da police© .

No I thought it'd be more fun to have brain surgery and forget simply premises.

That`s clever! I even heard something on your link, though it seems to be the same 25-second clip over and over. Do you have any idea how many people may be listening in?


On topic:-
My older sister could be relied on to buy any Beatles material that came out, so I deployed my money to good effect on an album that no-one else in my family would be buying: The Kinks self-titled debut, which I picked up in a secondhand shop. I was ten or eleven at the time and not ready to commit to a full-priced album.
Released in 1964, the album was retitled "You Really Got Me" in the USA - and No, I think I donated it to an Oxfam shop many years ago.

I wish.. I tossed my cassettes along time ago.

My parents bought me Tag Team, Kriss Kross, and Kid N Play when I was 6. It was my "walk to elementary school" music.

If they look like this, then sure! ;)
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Hey Paul! How ya doin? :beer:
Narrowcasting eh? How's that work? Do you talk on it or is it just sort of like this scrobbling thing (which I've never liked: I may listen to music I don't particularly enjoy just for review purposes, and then with last.fm and so forth you end up looking like you're into that music. Like my foray into boyband territory a year or two ago, or my soon to be published profile of Miley Cyrus. Brr!) in that you can just "share" your playing music with whomever wants to hear it? As they say in "Grease", tell me more! :)
Music when you were six? Wow! All I had at that age was a multicoloured single of I think Burl Ives singing "Windmill in old Amsterdam!" (B-side was "The Ugly Bug Ball" --- loved it!)

AC/DC - Back in Black on cassette. I have the MP3 version of the album, but the cassette is long gone.

Pfft, the only cassettes that I have randomly found are some mixtapes that a friend of mines from high school used to make.

My first cassette was Green Day's "Dookie".

I think my first band CD was Invincible by 5ive. Not completely sure. Probably had a few Now That's What I Call Music compilations before that though.

And I don't still have them regrettably.

I don't remember which came first but the the first two albums I ever remember having were The Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club by The Beatles and Low by David Bowie- both on cassette. I used to listen to them every day until they were lost during a move. Like Andrei I still have the first copy of "Dookie" I got back when I was 13.

The Slim Shady LP, and it's around storage somewhere.

my first collection. This is one of my favorites. Best album for me so far.
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Interesting that so many of you cite music on cassette as your first medium. I had tapes too of course, but can't really remember now if they were before or after my albums. Given how cheap, in relative terms, a ghetto blaster or Walkman was compared to buying a stereo system (even a crappy midi one) I'd imagine I had tapes first. I know I had a cassette of "Out of the blue", though whether or not I bought it before "Discovery" I can't say. I do know that I don't still have it (though I do on vinyl, gatefold sleeve and all) as one dark day it got twisted and caught in my tape deck (brand new) and that was the end of that. Unfortunately, once a tape got tangled that was usually the end of it.

I still have the first record I bought, the Beatles 1962-1966 or Red Album on CD in the lovely 2009 packaging. Mind you, I've had it for all of two years. ;)

Yes I do, look....

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Chucked all my vinyl away years ago but kept a few. It's almost 27 years to the day when I bought this.

I feel old :(

The first album I bought was 27 years ago too. I feel your pain.

Well, my first purchase was an EP. The Flatliners - Cynics EP. My favourite Flatliners song is on it.

Not as old as me! 32 years since I first got my grubby teenage mitts on it, and it changed my life!

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first album i bought with my own money....in 1985....on tape

and i no longer have it :(

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First albums I ever bought with someone else's money in 1982.

Because when I first started buying albums with my own money I only bought metal albums these 2 were always left with my parents albums and as far as I know are still there.

I'm going to listen to them now actually.

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think 83 or 84

see my sister lover MJ so i had to go for the Euro sleaze

she got Thriller and Off the Wall

i do still on both....but not my original copies

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In 1982 I bought the 45 of Centerfold by J. Geils Band because I was mesmerized by the video I saw on TV. I was 7. I loved everything about that 45. Rage in The Cage (b side) was a pleasant surprise and the pink label was beautiful to me, it was a precious possession. I bought the Freeze Frame cassette soon after and I always hated that artwork. I no longer have either :( I'm sure I taped over the cassette (by putting scotch tape over those little notches on the top) with something else from the 80s and the 45 stayed with my dad's record collection. Maybe it's still there but I doubt it.