First album you bought

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What was the first album you purchased or otherwise acquired?

Some here may be too young to remember when we had to go to a brick and mortar music store to buy physical tapes/records/CDs, so you are also allowed to list your first downloaded album (although I'm sure, in these days of á la carte purchasing, some people may not have purchased an entire album at all).

I can't remember if I ever bought any vinyl LPs or if I was just listening to what my parents had, but I do remember the first two CDs I owned after buying a portable boombox with a top-mounted CD player: Heart's self-titled album and Peter Gabriel's So.

I'm sitting here re-importing all my CDs to iTunes and thought of this question.
 
It was either White Lion - Pride or possibly Def Leopard - Hysteria
 
The first album I acquired was Who Do We Think We Are by Deep Purple, the first purchase would have been Never Mind The Bollocks with the money from my paper round when I was a lad :)
 
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. . . . and 45 years later it holds up very well.
 
The Eagles first album was the first true album I bought (though I had a few of those K-Tel pop compilations I must admit). I couldn't listen to much of it anymore, but those opening chords of Take It Easy get me every time.
 
This tells you everything you need to know about me... first album I bought was "Weird Al" Yankovic's Polka Party

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The first rock album I ever bought was Mass in F Minor by the Electric Prunes. I'd bought a couple of folk albums before that (Peter, Paul and Mary; New Christy Minstrels).
 
The first one I bought with my own money was "The Little Drummer Boy" that I got at a flea market.

Technically the first record I ever owned was The Archies, "Sugar, sugar" that I cut off the back of a cereal box.

Yes, I'm old and don't laugh because they played very well on the record player I had at the time.
 

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The first one I bought with my own money was "The Little Drummer Boy" that I got at a flea market.

Technically the first record I ever owned was The Archies, "Sugar, sugar" that I cut off the back of a cereal box.

Yes, I'm old and don't laugh because they played very well on the record player I had at the time.

Ha, I remember those cereal box records!

You're a youngster. The first records I owned were Puff the Magic Dragon and Snoopy Vs. the Red Baron. I played them over and over on something not unlike this:

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There is no way my parents or I ever contemplated the pot reference in 'Puff' - but it was foretelling. :D
 
What a great thread.

I acquired my first two simultaneously.

1.) Victory - Jackson Five
2.) She's So Unusual - Cyndi Lauper

Both were on cassette.

My first acquired CD was Dr. Feelgood - Motley Crue

Edit: I also wanted to add that I miss brick and mortar stores terribly. I've watched music sections dwindle to virtually nothing in the establishments that still even have them. ...and every time I drive by my old Tower Records that they turned into an REI I'm not sure if I want to shed a tear or throw something at it.
 
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Beatles greets hits on tape. Followed by the Who Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy
 
Ha, I remember those cereal box records!

You're a youngster. The first records I owned were Puff the Magic Dragon and Snoopy Vs. the Red Baron. I played them over and over on something not unlike this:

399lot277.jpg


There is no way my parents or I ever contemplated the pot reference in 'Puff' - but it was foretelling. :D

HAHAHAHAHAHA! I never got the 'Puff' reference to pot either.

That record player looks similar to the one I had, did you have to tape a nickel on top of the needle to keep it from skipping?
 
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