Your First Music Purchase

[superfan]

Killing time with coworkers recently, we discussed how so much music now is copied/downloaded, and we diverged to reminiscing about our first music purchases. Everyone in the discussion remembered their first purchase, and I thought it would be a fun topic here.

I'll get it started.

My first purchase was two 45 RPM singles -- Mr. Roboto by Styx, and Rock You Like a Hurricane by the Scorpions.

Still have them somewhere, but I have nothing that can play them.

First two full length albums (cassettes, actually) -- Van Halen, 1984 and Michael Jackson, Thriller. Ah, the memories.

[Partial]

The Smashing Pumpkins - Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

It was like 1993 I think.. maybe... I really have no idea!

[MadtownPacker]

It was MJ's Thriller, it was a bootleg cassette with a bootleg cover and it was at the swapmeet. Does that still count?

[the_idle_threat]

Quiet Riot, Metal Health (on cassette).

It was maybe 1985 or 1986, and I was less than 10 years old. I had no idea who they were or what I was buying. In hindsight, it was a pretty entertaining choice, though. The second-to-last track contained the lyric, "wanna kiss your lips, not the ones on your face ..."

[jack's smirking revenge]

Megadeth's Peace Sells (But Who's Buying?). Up to that point, I borrowed a lot of music from friends.

tyler

[Tarlam!]

First cassette was a compilation of Suzi Quattro. First vinyl was by The Sweet (U.K. Band) and another by Sherbet (Aussie Band that had a different name in your part of the world. They were called Highway due to the clash with popular sweet).

I was 10 years old...

[MJZiggy]

Queen. A Day at the Races.

[K-town]

Styx. Crystal Ball

[ahaha]

Disco Disney. Lame, I know, but I was only 5. The first album I actually bought with my own money was Dire Straits "Brothers in Arms". My brother and I used to play air guitar to "Money for Nothing" and we'd jump on the bed during the opening creshendo and fly off it when it peaks with the opening riff.

[Zool]

Ugg...since we're being honest..

Dokken Tooth and Nail on cassette.

[Harlan Huckleby]

I started out with Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson records. I was born a poor black child.

[BallHawk]

[Tyrone Bigguns]

First 45 was Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder in 1976. Played that thing like there was no tommorow in the basement.

Never had any clue who Sir Duke was, but I was only 11.

[Oscar]

38 Special Wild-Eyed Southern Boys... On an 8-Track.. Boy, those were the days..

[MJZiggy]

Oh man, Jeffro. That's a good one. My first 45 was Hang On Sloopy. I don't even know who gave it to me. I just remember playing it.