What were the first albums you ever bought?

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Posted: 9/29/2016 4:25:22 PM EDT

I was in 6th or 7th grade, and I saved up a few weeks' allowance and bought Weird Al's Running With Scissors. I listened to it on loop in my dad's truck on the way to bible camp that eventually my friend was like "dude, we have to listen to something else."

Second one was definitely They Might Be Giants' Flood. Must have gotten it in 8th grade or in the summer before 9th grade.

Third was probably the soundtrack to Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, which had a bunch of stupid skits and movie lines on it, but also had that one Stroke Nine song anybody gives a shit about, and Tougher Than Leather by RUN-DMC.

So what were your first albums?

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:31:01 PM EDT

[#1]

Van Halen 1984, I hate Van Halen to this day.

The first CDs I bought were Right Said Fred "I'm too sexy" and NIN "Broken". The cashier at Camelot Music gave me an odd look, lol.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:32:10 PM EDT

[#2]

Lynyrd Skynyrd Street Survivors

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:32:52 PM EDT

[#3]

First "album" was a cassette tape:

First CD:

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:33:13 PM EDT

[#4]

Kiss Destroyer

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:33:35 PM EDT

[#5]

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:34:22 PM EDT

[#6]

The very first album I bought was from The Preside ts of the United States. I can't remember the name of the album, but it had the "Peaches" song on it.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:34:54 PM EDT

[#7]

First album I ever bought...1974.

Followed by Black Sabbath: Paranoid and Led Zeppelin 4.

I could not begin to guess how many Jensen 6x9 car speakers I blew the hell up listening to those 3 albums.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:35:12 PM EDT

[#8]

Believe it was Bad Religion 80-85.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:35:38 PM EDT

[#9]

Heh, hell yeah OP

My first tape was Weird Als- Even Worse.

I remember painfully choosing that one over The Fat Boys.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:35:52 PM EDT

[#10]

Eagles -- Hotel California.

$2.99 at Jimmy's Music World on Sunrise Highway in Babylon, NY.

Yes, I remember too many things.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:36:11 PM EDT

[#11]

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*highfive*

great record

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:36:20 PM EDT

[#12]

"A Real Dead One" and "Ride the Lightning" were the first albums I ever bought.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:36:39 PM EDT

[#13]

Paula Abdul -Spellbound

Followed immediately by Paula Abdul - Forever Your Girl.

I apologize for nothing.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:36:44 PM EDT

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[#15]

Green Day Dookie and Nirvana Nevermind.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:37:28 PM EDT

[#16]

Deep Purple 'Machine Head', Grade 7,1972.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:37:38 PM EDT

[#17]

I got The Beastie Boys License to Ill for Christmas from my mom's best friend. I was in 4th Grade.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:39:39 PM EDT

[#18]

walked a few miles to the "sounds good" music store back in 1995 for this. I had heard ironman on the radio for the first time and wanted to hear it on repeat.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:41:13 PM EDT

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Believe it was Bad Religion 80-85.

*highfive*

great record

Not a fan, at all, of their newer stuff but still one of my favorite bands.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:42:56 PM EDT

[#20]

Doors - Hello I love you LP

Led Zep II - Whole Lotta Love LP

CCR - Looking out my back door On Casssette

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:43:41 PM EDT

[#21]

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LOL the first cassette I can remember buying was Paula Abdul. The one with Straight Up Now Tell Me. Damn

The first CD I bought was Guns N Roses Use Your Illusion 2. I had to talk my way around the parental warning with my mom.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:43:56 PM EDT

[#22]

Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill. Epic album.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:44:37 PM EDT

[#23]

LP? don't recall.

my first CD was the remastered Dark Side of the Moon

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:44:41 PM EDT

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Posted: 9/29/2016 4:45:15 PM EDT

[#25]

Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits. My brother bought Black Sabbath. My mother was appalled.

Circa ~1974

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:45:30 PM EDT

[#26]

Indian Reservation by Paul Revere and the Raiders.

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Now there's A fucking classic! It wasn't the first album I bought but the cassette made it's way into my first car in 1976.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:47:20 PM EDT

[#27]

AC/DC Back in Black.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:47:21 PM EDT

[#28]

Iron Maiden- Number of the Beast

My dad took it away

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:47:26 PM EDT

[#29]

I win the thread.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:49:16 PM EDT

[#30]

First cassette was Warrant's Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinkin Rich
First CD was Van Halen's Best of Greatest Hits Vol. 1
If I had downloaded a first song from the original Napster it would've been Garth Brook's To Make You Feel My Love

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:49:23 PM EDT

[#31]

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LOL the first cassette I can remember buying was Paula Abdul. The one with Straight Up Now Tell Me. Damn

The first CD I bought was Guns N Roses Use Your Illusion 2. I had to talk my way around the parental warning with my mom.

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Paula Abdul -Spellbound
Followed immediately by Paula Abdul - Forever Your Girl.
I apologize for nothing.

LOL the first cassette I can remember buying was Paula Abdul. The one with Straight Up Now Tell Me. Damn

The first CD I bought was Guns N Roses Use Your Illusion 2. I had to talk my way around the parental warning with my mom.

My Mom made me return White Zombie.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:49:53 PM EDT

[#32]

Got them around 85-86 when I was 11 or 12. All on cassette.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:50:18 PM EDT

[#33]

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Not a fan, at all, of their newer stuff but still one of my favorite bands.

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Believe it was Bad Religion 80-85.

*highfive*
great record

Not a fan, at all, of their newer stuff but still one of my favorite bands.

Exactly same here.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:52:37 PM EDT

[#34]

Damn photobucket.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:52:45 PM EDT

[#35]

The first album I bought was Rock and Roll Over by KISS. That was in the old days when we had LP records. Next I bought Ace Frehley's solo album on 8-track so I could listen to it in my mom's car. About that time regular cassettes hit the market so I bought everything AC/DC had out and this was before Brian Johnson joined the band. I still have a lot of vinyl as well as a 78 rpm Victrola that we still wind up when the power goes out.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:53:01 PM EDT

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Posted: 9/29/2016 4:55:01 PM EDT

[#37]

I was 6, I think.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:55:14 PM EDT

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Ah, Broken JPEG and the Hotlinks, I think I pirated their first album when I was in college.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:56:16 PM EDT

[#39]

Smash by the Offspring, and Live's Throwing Copper.

ETA: Both on cassette, of course.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:57:02 PM EDT

[#40]

How the heck anyone can remember that is beyond me, especially if your old.

BUCC-GUY Paula Abdul

Was this before of after you were issued your man card.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:57:34 PM EDT

[#41]

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That album was self-titled. I still have it on cassette.

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:58:33 PM EDT

[#42]

Kill 'Em All

Posted: 9/29/2016 4:59:28 PM EDT

[#43]

KISS - Double Platinum

Men at Work - Business as Usual

A Flock of Seagulls (self-titled debut album) with an original autograph of a band member when the band was at the record store for a signing.

Posted: 9/29/2016 5:00:06 PM EDT

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Posted: 9/29/2016 5:01:24 PM EDT

[#45]

Cassette

CD

Posted: 9/29/2016 5:11:50 PM EDT

[#46]

I think it was Duran Duran Rio but it could have been Thriller I'm not 100% sure.

Posted: 9/29/2016 5:12:21 PM EDT

[#47]

First vinyl was Devo "Are we not men?"

(Understand, my brother and I have about the same musical taste,so I used his albums a lot.)

First CD was Rush - 2112