What was your first album you ever bought?

[Valkyrie-Favor]

I've been around music my whole life. My dad has a few hundred tapes floating around, mostly late 80s/early 90s and I play a few different instruments, so I was familiar with the really basic classical stuff.

First album I remember buying was Comatose by Skillet. I remember my friends telling me it was the best thing ever! I was 10 or 11 at the time and I really liked it. Now that I look back on it, it's pretty bad, but better than most of my friends' current favorite albums.




We all wanted Pepsi and Foot Loops for every meal at one time too.

[Hobie-wan]

The first music I bought for myself was the eponymous A Split Second release on tape because of the song Rigor Mortis. I had copied a bunch of new wave and industrial stuff from a friend a little before that, but that SS tape led to a big obsession with Wax Trax releases. The Wax Trax logo was always big and easy to see on tape spines, so I could just look for that at the store and in that golden late 80s era I was always guaranteed something awesome from the label even if I wasn't familiar with the particular band.

[SpaceBooger]

My first album was the following LP from 1979:


The first album that I bought with my own money was:

The first cassette: Not sure? Beastie Boys: Licence to Ill or LL Cool J: Bigger and Deffer
The first CD: Public Enemy:Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Black or 3rd Base Derelicts of Dialect

[BurningDoom]

3rd Grade:



Cowabunga!

The first serious album I bought:



Both were on cassette tape.

Nirvana is a band that I used to love, but now due to it being completely over-played on rock stations and from other people, I could live without ever hearing them again. A band that was ruined for me.

[SpaceBooger]

I decided to look up the record player I played my Disney LPs on and its on ebay for $75: http://www.ebay.com/itm/VG-1978-Superma ... 987wt_1357

[MyNameIsVince]

I honestly don't remember what was the first album I bought with my own money (it was sometime in high school that's for sure).

But I do remember the first album I had my parents get for me. I was a wee kid in a record store and I asked my dad to get me this album:



What made it special was that after I got it, my dad used one of those label makers, made a label with my name on it, and put it on the CD cover.

[Arbitern1]

Grateful Dead Live/Dead for 50 cents at a used cassette shop when i was 11. Btw i was 11 in like 2002 so it was pretty strange for an 11 year old to be jaming to the dead on his ballin ass walkman.

[fysyxx]

the first CD i ever bought with my own money was Enema of the State by blink-182 when i was 11 years old. however, the first CD i ever owned was Disintegration by The Cure. my dad always listened to Pictures of You when i was in the car as a little kid and so one time he got me a copy for my birthday or something.

[D.D.D.]

I can't remember what I bought first but I remember what I was given first.
Van Halen (I).

[Runefaust]

First cassette I was ever given was the You Could Be Mine|Civil War cassette by Guns N Roses. First CD I ever bought was the Appetite for Destruction Guns N Roses album.