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


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.

[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)

[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.

[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

[Dominic]

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First album- Kiss Destroyer

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niiiiiiiice. That album is awesome.

[samjjones]

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

[wayabvpar]

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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-



First CD was this-


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

[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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