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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.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4rwUV6n_Zs

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

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.

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

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.

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-Superman-Record-Player-Model-SP-19-Works-Real-Cool-/170899956795?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item27ca6e643b#ht_1987wt_1357

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.

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.

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.

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

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.