First record you bought

[errbt]

First 7":



First 12":



First LP:



I used to have to LOVE a song to be willing to part with the $$ to buy the single. Otherwise I'd just tape it off the radio. Then, an artist had to hit me with several awesome singles before I'd consider risking the big $$ on an entire album (risk due to the fear that I might end up hating the rest of the songs, thus having "wasted the money")!

After buying Bowie's Modern Love, I followed it up with these singles for my next purchase:

Paul McCartney - Take It Away
Peter Schilling - Major Tom (Coming Home)
After the Fire - Der Kommisar
Kenny Loggins - Welcome to Heartlight (not sure what I was thinking with this one)

I'd enjoyed several Duran songs throughout 1983 (the year my family got cable and MTV, and the year I stopped listening to classical music radio & switched to pop/rock/top 40) to that point, taping them off the radio, but it wasn't until New Moon On Monday came out late in the year, and despite what I considered (at the time, but not for long) a croaky, annoying verse, that soaring chorus compelled me to buy the 7", my first Duran purchase of any kind. The 12" soon followed, then the US reissue of the HLTW 7" (with Kershenbaum single remix & Night Version), Rio 7" (Kershenbaum edit), ITSISK, & Union 7"s plus 12"s, and then I finally "broke down" and bought 7ATRT, followed by Rio & then the debut US reissue). After that (and catching up on every import single and 12" I could get, plus *ahem* unofficial releases), everything was bought as soon as it was released. The next bands that I became "completist" about were Simple Minds, U2, & R.E.M.

[grozzybear]

First LP I bought with my own $ was Phil Collins 'No Jacket Required'.

[La Princess]

Let's see:

First albums I was given were by the Monkees. I should say first pop albums because prior to that my relatives mostly gave me classical and gospel albums. During this time a local radio station was going off the air and someone who worked at the station gave me a bunch of 45s.

First vinyl album I bought was probably Grease soundtrack. I say probably because I may have bought the various Ronco and Ktel compilations that were released during that time. I've since bought this album on 8 track, cassette and CD three times. I don't know if this would be considered as buying but every week my mom gave me money to buy 45s every week. My mom was a musician and big into music. She thought this would help me become a musician too. I do sing so it did something.

First cassette I bought was 7&TRT but a few months earlier my first received cassette was a Ktel cassette called something like Street Beat.

First CD: I got a CD player in 1991 and bought Decade (Duran Duran), Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (The Cure), Diesel and Dust (Midnight Oil) and Out of Time (R.E.M.).

[schmacko]

First album:


I believe this was my first single; I'd have to dig through my collection, because it might be Planet Earth, not Girls on Film. Don't listen to albums much any more.

[Mor Duran from Iceland]

mine first was Seven and the Ragged Tiger and a few days later, RIO and Duran Duran. then I got ARENA for christmas that year. still have all of them sitting pretty here at home. Had to replace the vinyl of SATRT after a few years; played it raw

[drnick]

The first record I had bought for me was Dougal And The Blue Cat. The first one I bought with my own money was Planet Earth.

[kyyx4ever]

1st record I had was given to me by me folks: Shaun Cassidy ! Also "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack and the "Grease" soundtrack ! Gah....so fun and brings back such nostalgia just thinking about it !

But with my own money, I'd have to say Go Gos "Beauty & The Beat" along with Men at Work "Business As Usual". I remember distinctly because after a few year of recording songs (including Duran's early singles ) off the radio, I was just starting to get into New Wave. This started my lifelong love affair with new wave. Also, it was part of those Columbia Records' buy 12-For-1 c. promotions !

[mynick7]

Nov 22, 2015 16:26:59 GMT -5 kyyx4ever said:

1st record I had was given to me by me folks: Shaun Cassidy ! Also "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack and the "Grease" soundtrack ! Gah....so fun and brings back such nostalgia just thinking about it !

Another Shaun Cassidy person!! 

[La Princess]

Nov 22, 2015 16:26:59 GMT -5 kyyx4ever said:

1st record I had was given to me by me folks: Shaun Cassidy ! Also "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack and the "Grease" soundtrack ! Gah....so fun and brings back such nostalgia just thinking about it !

But with my own money, I'd have to say Go Gos "Beauty & The Beat" along with Men at Work "Business As Usual". I remember distinctly because after a few year of recording songs (including Duran's early singles ) off the radio, I was just starting to get into New Wave. This started my lifelong love affair with new wave. Also, it was part of those Columbia Records' buy 12-For-1 c. promotions !

I loved those Columbia House clubs where you got a bunch of music. First time I joined was in 1989 and got many tapes, bought the ones I needed then cancelled because they were expensive. Years later I joined to get CDs and they had a special if you got friends to join you got free CDs so I signed up friends, paid for them (since I was getting the CDs)and then cancelled.

[vermeerf]

It was Arena, but on cassette. I was 10 then. So my first ever album was a DD one.