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.

[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...

[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]

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

[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.