First LP / Cassette / CD / MP3

As I sit at my computer reviewing my mp3’s for songs that I want/need and don’t have yet, I started to think about the first album (LP in my case) I bought on my own free will (not a gift). I realized that I have purchased music in four different forms of media over the years (LP, cassette, CD, and mp3) (No 8-track, DAT, or mini-disc). I was also amazed that I remembered what each purchase was fairly distinctly. I guess since music imprints so strongly in our memory that this shouldn’t be that big of a surprise after all.

Do all of you remember your first purchases of each type? What were they? (If you never “bought” a MP3, the first one you ripped then) How did your taste in music evolve over the years? Here are mine to get started:

Album: Flash Gordon – The Movie Soundtrack
Cassette: Quiet Riot – Metal Health
CD – Elvis Costello – Spike
MP3: Tenacious D - Self-Titled

http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/2158/alb7zr.jpg
Quite a mix over the years...

[Paluka]

I bought my first 2 cds on the same day:

Bad Brains- The Youth Are Getting Restless
Slayer- Seasons in the Abyss

I think both were upgrades from tapes.

[swede123]

My first album: Kiss - Asylum
My first CD: Metallica - Black Album (didn't have a CD player until 1992)
MP3 - Haven't bought a MP3 yet

Swede

[StoneAge]

First album- Kiss Destroyer

[samjjones]

I only remember my first tape purchase, and this was it...

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000HZYC.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg

[fyodor]

My very first LP remains one of the most embarrassing musical purchases of my life: The New Gary Puckett and the Union Gap Album.

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[Soul Daddy]

LP: Michael Jackson - Thriller
Tape: Huey Lewis & the News - Sports
CD: De La Soul - 3 Feet High & Rising / 3rd Bass - The Cactus Album
mp3: WC & the Maad Circle - Quick Way Out

Edit - forgot about Huey.

[diebitter]

LP: Best of James Bond themes
Cassette: Some lame 'top of the pops' compilation of singers mimicing hits of the day
CD: Probably Beethoven's 9th, but something classical
mp3: Chemical Brothers: Hey Boy, Hey Girl

[pokerdirty]

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[IndieMatty]

First Vinyl was given to me; Ghostbusters - Ray Parker JR. First vinyl I bought was Pearl Jams - Animal, but only for resale value, I still have it sealed. First vinyl to actually listen to was a strife 7".

First tape was Huey Lewis and The News - Sports

First CD was REM - Out of Time

First MP3 was....christ, I have no idea, I remember my first time on Napster I downloaded a ton of deftones rarities.

[diebitter]

Oh, my first single

David Bowie - the Laughing Gnome

[turnipmonster]

my first tape was black flag's "who's got the 10 1/2?" followed by RHCP "uplift mofo party plan".

--turnipmonster

[johnnycakes]

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000003TA4.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[imported_anacardo]

First album I ever bought was the soundtrack to The Crow. That is all I recall.

[Soul Daddy]

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First album I ever bought was the soundtrack to The Crow. That is all I recall.

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By album you mean CD, right? No way you were buying vinyl at that point.

[hobbsmann]

first tape: http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000OQF.01._PE29_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

first cd: http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000003TAW.01._PE29_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

I think I made out pretty well with both.

[hobbsmann]

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First tape was Huey Lewis and The News - Sports

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Awesome.

[Soul Daddy]

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First tape was Huey Lewis and The News - Sports

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Awesome.

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[hobbsmann]

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First tape was Huey Lewis and The News - Sports

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Awesome.

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sorry, I was reading the thread from bottom up and noticed matty's first tape first.

so....ditto on the awesomeness for you.

[wayabvpar]

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I only remember my first tape purchase, and this was it...

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000HZYC.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg



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Same with me! My first non-Weird Al tape was this-

http://www.re-played.com/images/Simple_minds_-_Once_upon_a_time_dvda.jpg

First CD was this-
http://www.sapere.it/tc/img/Musica/Grandi_del_rock/Pearl_Jam/jam.jpg

I was late getting a CD player...I bought the CD before I owned something to play it on!

[IndieMatty]

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First tape was Huey Lewis and The News - Sports

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Awesome.

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Are you kidding me?! This is a must have album.

[imported_The Vibesman]

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First Vinyl was given to me; Ghostbusters - Ray Parker JR.
First tape was Huey Lewis and The News - Sports



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This is kind of funny, because Ray Parker Jr was sued for the tune "Ghostbusters" by Huey Lewis because it was a rip-off of "I Want A New Drug," which is on "Sports."

BTW, I think the first CD I bought was Bob Seger, "Nine Tonight," but I can't really remember.

[Soul Daddy]

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First tape was Huey Lewis and The News - Sports

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Awesome.

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Are you kidding me?! This is a must have album.

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Read a few posts up from yours.

[xadrez]

Vinyl LP-(I went to the store with my father and got 3 on the same day)
Pink Floyd-The Wall
Bob Marley:Rebel Music
Michael Jackson:Thriller

Cassette
Special Ed - Legal

CD
Jodeci - Forever My Lady

MP3
Dont remember, the first time I went on Napster at a friends house I left with like 10 full CD's. It was like Christmas when I still believed in Santa Claus.

[Dominic]

first album - The Osmonds -Crazy Horses. (Hey, I was like 8, ok?)
first cassette - who cares? cassettes suck
first CD - Talking Heads - Little Creatures
first online download - Beyonce - Crazy in Love

[xadrez]

I think I own "Sports" on vinyl if you guys want to start bidding...

[PokerNoob]

I joined the Columbia House record club. 8 albums for a penny (double albums count as 2). I remember I got five, so I got 3 doubles. The ones I remember are:

Who - Quadrophenia
Stones - More Hot Rocks
Yes - Yessongs (3 counted as 2)
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic (They shipped the quadrophonic version)

I have no idea what the other one was, it was probably R&B or Jazzish.

Cassette: Frank Zappa - Weasels ripped my flesh

I never owned an 8-track.

CD I think was Pearl Jam - Vitalogy. I was a late adopter of that technology.

[IndieMatty]

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First tape was Huey Lewis and The News - Sports

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Awesome.

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Are you kidding me?! This is a must have album.

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Read a few posts up from yours.

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Ahhhhhh. Too funny.

[Dominic]

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First album- Kiss Destroyer

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niiiiiiiice. That album is awesome.

[samjjones]

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First tape was Huey Lewis and The News - Sports

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Awesome.

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Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercial and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consumate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humor. In '87, Huey released this, Fore, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself.

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[Soul Daddy]

Damn your ninja edit. I was looking for that pic.

[MonkeeMan]

Where's the 8-track love?

I bought these in my initial purchase:

http://www.doors-tickets.com/images/doors.jpg http://www.rockzirkus.de/lexikon/bilder/i/iron_butter/heavy.jpg http://ring.cdandlp.com/skeudagogo/photo_grande/26811077.jpg http://www.inet.hr/~abubalo/albums/covers/axis.jpg

[siccjay]

These are guesses as I'm not sure.

LP - Michael Jackson - Thriller

Tape - Black Sheep - A Wolf In Sheeps Clothing

CD - Outkast - Southernplayalistic...

MP3 - Master P - Ghetto D

[lem45216]

LP - The Beatles - She Loves You (Yeah Yeah Yeah) bought this about a year ago from a junk shop.

Tape - Baddiel, Skinner and The Lightening Seeds - Three Lions 96

CD - The Chemical Brothers - Surrender

MP3 - The Offspring - Defy You

[samjjones]

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Damn your ninja edit. I was looking for that pic.

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http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/8139/psycho7zh.jpg
O RLY?

[Benal]

My first cassette was Ratt - Dancing Undercover

[samjjones]

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LP - The Beatles - She Loves You (Yeah Yeah Yeah) bought this about a year ago from a junk shop.



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"She Loves You" was not an LP??? Did you buy the single (EP)?

[swede123]

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LP - The Beatles - She Loves You (Yeah Yeah Yeah) bought this about a year ago from a junk shop.



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"She Loves You" was not an LP??? Did you buy the single (EP)?

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Nitpick award of the day to Samjjones! I'm sure the guy meant vinyl (as opposed to cd or tape).

Swede

[samjjones]

Yeah! Actually, I just recently progressed past the albums, and have started downloading singles and B-sides, so this was fresh in my brain.

Album: Never bought an album.
Cassette: Metallica - Kill `em All.
CD: Never bought a CD.
MP3: Don`t remember, but either Metallica or Iron Maiden.

My taste in music is mainly the same as 20 years ago. I listen to more different music (Pink Floyd, U2, ...) today, but Metallica and similar bands still account for most of it.

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My first cassette was Ratt - Dancing Undercover

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That rocks! Any band that can convince Milton Berle to be in one their videos must be had. I'm buyig <u>Round and Round </u> right now!

[hobbsmann]

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CD: Never bought a CD.

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really? wow.

[The Yugoslavian]

Hammer - 2 legit to quit

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He was the [censored] back in the day though!

Yugoslav

[swede123]

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Hammer - 2 legit to quit

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He was the [censored] back in the day though!

Yugoslav

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One important distinction, he WAS the [censored] back before he made 2 Legit 2 Quit.

Swede

[DavidC]

First Cassette... Pretty sure it was Kid N' Play

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Damn that brings back memories.

[tonypaladino]

I was in the 4th Grade....

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[David04]

Tape-I never actually owned a tape until recently, somebody gave me 25-30 old rap tapes(D.O.C, N.W.A, LL Cool J, etc) So those were my first ones.

CD-I recieved a Ricky Martin CD for like my 10th birthday. (Which I did not ask for)

Vinyl-Joe Budden-Pump It Up(not an LP, but whatever)

MP3-Can't remember, probably some Eminem songs or something.

[shant]

My first tape

http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/626/hesdj9jx.jpg

[MarkL444]

tape- i think kris kross
cd- pearl jam vitalogy
mp3- might have been marcy playground sex and candy, dont know why

[diebitter]

Howzabout first DVD?

Mine is Babe 2: Pig in the City!

[Duke]

Album: Billy Joel: Streetlife Serenade
Cassette: Beastie Boys: License to Ill
CD: Metallica (the black one)
MP3: First one I downloaded was the Neon Genesis Evangelion title theme.

~D

[TheIrishThug]

first cd (gift, but was buy request)
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000002U2Q.01._PE12_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

first with my onwn money
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001Y79.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

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Howzabout first DVD?

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Strangely enough (mentioned a couple of times in this thread as the soundtrack): Ghostbusters.

[DukeSucks]

My first tape;
http://fiw.web.infoseek.co.jp/sanctuary/pic/police2.jpg

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My first tape;
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Classic. I had this on LP. Did the artwork for the cassette have the picture of the girl with her tata exposed like on the record cover? If not, major disadvantage!

Fist CD: Mighty Ducks 2 soundtrack (which is still awesome to this day)

First DVD: Predator

First tape: Mix tape from some chick

First tape bought: 12 inches of Snow

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

cassette - batman soundtrack
CD - Use Your Illusion II, GnFnR
MP3 - no freakin idea.

[sfer]

LP:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000088E77.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

Tape:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000U4V.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

CD:
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0000026QU.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

[Hamish McBagpipe]

Album - My mum still has my first kid's record. Some Dougal the Dog Magic Roundabout Album. Anyone who says there first album/record/cd was Radiohead/Led Zep/Nirvana blah blah is a goddamn liar or was an orphan.
http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/2443/x91566mz.jpg
Cassette - I definitely remember my first cassette as this monster record from when I was about 7. Hot Chocolate.
http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/3594/b00004t2il03lzzzzzzz7gb.jpg
CD - My $400 Pioneer dual disc CD player's first cd bought in 1988 (freshman Summer) Love and Rockets - Express.
http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/2/express1gu.jpg
MP3 - Don't remember wut I first stole. Probably just downloaded some old hit like Mexican Radio by Wall of Voodoo just to see how the [censored] worked.

[ThaSaltCracka]

I am going to go out on a limb and say I have the worst first Tape and CD purchases here.

Tape- Another Bad Creation- Chillin at the playground ya know
CD- Shaq- I know I got skillz (single)

[Losing all]

Album- Something by cool and the gang (yikes)
Cassette- Sabbath paranoid side 1/Iron Maiden Number of the beast side 2
CD- ride the lightning. I didn't even have a cd player yet, but it was on sale

[Soul Daddy]

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Tape- Another Bad Creation- Chillin at the playground ya know

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I have no such excuse for owning this, but I did at one point.

"It's the Mizzark chillin in the pizzark, I got a break cuz my mother said be home by dizzark."

Wow

[ThaSaltCracka]

Iesha was the [censored] man.

[hhughes]

Christ...I must be the oldest [censored] in this place...

1st album I actually purchased with my own money: Cheap Trick(dont remember the name though, it had the song "Surrender" on it...)

1st 8 track: BTO

1st cassette: The Jimi Hendricks Experience: Are you Experienced?

1st CD: The Clash: London Calling(my album got warped)

1st MP3: Still stuck with CD's (at the moment)

1st album I actually listened to: Cream: The Best of Cream(still one of the best albums ever made)

[TheMainEvent]

Tape:
http://image.com.com/mp3/images/cover/200/drc900/c991/c991887466w.jpg
CD:
http://www.matthom.com/images/artwork/g/gin-blossoms/new-miserable-experience.jpg
MP3:
http://mclub.te.net.ua/images/alb/cover315_16342.jpg

[plaster8]

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I am going to go out on a limb and say I have the worst first Tape and CD purchases here.

Tape- Another Bad Creation- Chillin at the playground ya know
CD- Shaq- I know I got skillz (single)

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After a stellar first album choice ...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/plaster8/B00004Y6O9.jpg

I'm pretty sure I have you beat on worst first CD.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/plaster8/B000002ILO.jpg

What can I say? I was 12 and thought she was cute.

[whiskeytown]

first Vinyl LP that I picked out...as opposed to one my parents bought me? - That would be Air Supply - The One that you Love. I think the first record I ever got was some 4 record collection of Bible Stories, but the first one I ever chose was Air Supply. I don't know which I'm more ashamed of.

First cassette? - I think my mom ordered it from Columbia Rcd. club - The Police - Synchronicity. My taste was improving.

My first CD - Actually, before I bought a CD player, I started buying CD's and dubbing them on borrowed equipment. The first CD I can ever recall buying is the Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour. - after watching the movie at the Library in Minneapolis on one of those VHS decks they let you watch checked out movies at.

Come to think of it, I need to buy the DVD for that - I'm sure my years of watching movies will give me a new appreciation for it's creativity.

First MP3 - I remember downloading Napster - it MAY have been some Vigilante of Love bootlegs - but I don't recall for sure.

RB

[Eurotrash]

first CD I can't really remember.

first tape I'm almost positive with Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby

first mp3 was way back in 1998 or so (i think?), and it might have been Taco - Puttin on the Ritz, or After the Fire - Der Kommissar (there's a chance it was some other obscure 80s track)

[ChipWrecked]

First 8 track:

http://www.akkords.ru/j/jethro_tull/disk_2710.jpg

First LP:

http://www.maccafan.net/Albums/BandOnTheRun/Front.jpg

First cassette:

http://www.redtiki.com/collection/img/rush-moving.gif


First CD:

http://www.rocksource.de/bildarchiv/jeffhealyband/1.jpg

First MP3 I ever bought?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v382/aksooted/rofl.gif

OK, OK.... first song I ever downloaded was 'Leader of Men' by Nickelback. You may LOL now.

[Slow Play Ray]

First cassette:

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0000024JN.01._PE20_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

First CD:

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000002JNJ.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

[HesseJam]

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/dre200/e287/e28736wo5ff.jpg

[Shajen]

Album:

http://www.kiss-tickets.net/images/album_destroyer.jpg

Cassette: (I think it was this album, don't remember exactly)

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/150/152794.jpg

CD:

http://hebertson.net.hosting.domaindirect.com/music/collection/images/778f.jpg

MP3? No idea. I think Wagner's Ride of the Valkyrie

[Los Feliz Slim]

First CD:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002O5L.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

I didn't have a CD player of my own yet, so I made a tape copy on my sister's stereo.

[27offsuit]

http://musicmoz.org/img/editors/briank58/double_platinum.jpg

[Sooga]

First cassette: GNR - Appetite for Destruction, which I loved, but is a kind of music I've never listened to since.

First CD: Honestly, I don't remember. I have a vague memory of it being Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle, though.

First MP3: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Crossroads. I remember when I first downloaded it and listened to it thinking, "What's the big deal? It's just audio..."

[Georgia Avenue]

In chronological order:
Tape: Buddy Holly Best of when I was very young... with my own money tho:
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Then Record:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001I09.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

Then my first CD:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002H6C.01._PE26_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

I still have this copy too, bought in the long cardboard containers they used to package CDs in...

Mp3: I have never purchased an mp3. I don't believe anyone could feel fond memories for their first download.

[SackUp]

My first and still favorite cd - Metallica - the black album.

[nyc999]

Album: Kiss - Alive II
Cassette: The Fat Boys - The Fat Boys Are Back
CD: Nirvana - Nevermind
MP3: Dave Matthews - Lie In Our Graves (solo live)

[jb9]

First album: Asia -- Asia

I remember telling my mother "Asia will be the next Beatles". She laughed...




First CD: The Beatles -- Sgt. Pepper's

Mom was right.

[codewarrior]

1st Album: Chicago 1
1st CD: Mozart Requiem

Don't remember the first tape.

[samjjones]

You win.

[MonkeeMan]

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First CD: The Beatles -- Sgt. Pepper's


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[MonkeeMan]

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Christ...I must be the oldest [censored] in this place...

1st album I actually purchased with my own money: Cheap Trick(dont remember the name though, it had the song "Surrender" on it...)

1st 8 track: BTO

1st cassette: The Jimi Hendricks Experience: Are you Experienced?

1st CD: The Clash: London Calling(my album got warped)

1st MP3: Still stuck with CD's (at the moment)

1st album I actually listened to: Cream: The Best of Cream(still one of the best albums ever made)

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Based on your answers I'd guess I'm older.

[colgin]

What no category for 8-track. [censored], you guys are young.

Album: Beatles '65 (one of the crappy U.S. releases of their work) or Elvis Presley Gold Records

8-track: Some Grateful Dead album.

Tape: Many dubs of Who albums were given to me; can't remember the first one that I bought.

CD: Beatles, Rubber Soul; Squeeze, Argy Bargy &amp; East Side Story; and Elvis Costello, Imperial Bedroom (all on the same day that I got my first CD player).

MP3: Trash Can Sinatras rarities downloads from Napster.