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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

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Quite a mix over the years...

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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.

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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

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First album- Kiss Destroyer

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

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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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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.

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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

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tape: Queen's Greatest Hits [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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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.

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Oh, my first single

David Bowie - the Laughing Gnome

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

--turnipmonster

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

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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.

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first tape: http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0...CMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

first cd: http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/...CMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

I think I made out pretty well with both.

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First tape was Huey Lewis and The News - Sports

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Awesome.

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Awesome.

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First tape was Huey Lewis and The News - Sports

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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First tape was Huey Lewis and The News - Sports

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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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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.

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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

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

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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.

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First tape was Huey Lewis and The News - Sports

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

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Ahhhhhh. Too funny.

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First album- Kiss Destroyer

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niiiiiiiice. That album is 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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Damn your ninja edit. I was looking for that pic.

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Where's the 8-track love?

I bought these in my initial purchase:

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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

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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

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

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My first cassette was Ratt - Dancing Undercover

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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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"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

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

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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.