First album you bought

i haven't looked through the thread, but i bet my purchase of SImon and Garfunkel SOunds of SIlence is one of the older ones on here...

shrug...
 
I had purchased some very early "Johnny Cash" albums. And of course a Christmas Album, "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby. Then through the years just kept on collecting albums from all kinds of artists. I still have all of those things.

I actually have a lot of "albums." How many of you remember the diamond cartridge needles we used to save and skimp for to outfit the record players?
 
I had just gotten paid after my first week mowing grass and doing yard work with my brother. Immediately went to the record store and bought:

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie)
and
Machine Head (Deep Purple)

I still listen to both, regularly, although the original vinyl records are long dead.
 
Pink Floyd, The Wall. The double album was $12 and I got permission to ride my bike to the record store and buy it. Thought I was a badass after that.
 
The first album I ever bought with my own money (that wasn't a gift) was Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles.

The semi-interesting story behind this is that I bought it with money I received for my 10th birthday. The year was 1979, and there was a recent movie "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" that had a soundtrack featuring various artists singing Beatles songs. My older sister recommended I get the album since I really wasn't sure which album to buy. She wasn't in the record store with me, so when the sales clerk asked me whether I wanted the original album or the soundtrack, I couldn't remember what my sister had told me. So I asked for the original.

When I got home, my sister called me an idiot for getting the wrong album. After I listened to it a few times, I really liked it. Naturally, I was glad for making "a mistake"...and ever since then I know that I definitely did buy the right album.
 
The first album I bought was Supertramp Breakfast in America. I remember it so well... My grandmother gave me the money for it because my parents didn't want me listening to Rock and Roll. :D
 
Chicago IX (greatest hits) .. still stands up today.. I got a grateful dead album at the same time that I traded with a friend for Zeppelin IV (I guess I started honing my negotiation skills at young age, not a bad trade)
 
Mine was Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon

Played that poor vinyl with not the best equipment to start out with. Got scratchy as hell. 😄
 
A lot of Diana Ross in my house growing up, the album was in keeping

Sly and the Family Stone greatest hits.

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I don't remember for sure, but I think it was, The Party and I was like 8.
 
My first album was actually a Ktel record when I was in grade 6, which was a fucking longtime ago.

Well over 40 years ago.
 
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