Bought my first record - what was yours?
 

Bought my first record a few days ago.
I was sipping and Octoberfest under my aspen's enjoy a breezy day while perusing eBay and reverb. I ended up with Pink Floyd's 1979 cut from MSFL Dark Side of the Moon. I've always love Pink Floyd, this album was big for me but to be honest The Wall is my favorite - still digging around for a good pressing.

What about you?

My 1st LP was Beatles 65 purchased in 1965.

My parents bought records for me but the first one I bought on my own using money I earned delivering newspapers was Tommy by The Who. 1969. Around the same time I also bought the first Creedence Clearwater Revival album.

David Bowie - Heroes
Must have been end of '77, or beginning of '78.
Had to save quite some time to get the money together! :D

Fun topic down memory lane. I only recall I rode my bike one hot summer day for what seemed like an hour to Eastpoint shopping mall in Baltimore County. This was in the early 1970s while I was in elementary school, maybe 6th or 7th grade. I bought an album by Kiss, and I can’t for the life of me recall which it was. I only know that I felt incredibly thirsty after having ridden so far in the sun ha ha ha. At least, I can recall that I used some of my money to buy a fountain soda, a Coca Cola—or was it Pepsi ha ha ha? More than actually buying the record, I vividly remember drinking that damn soda ha ha ha.

Buying an album was as much about buying a cover as buying a record, at least, for me this was true. Sometimes, I bought an album because I knew the music, and sometimes, it was to hear something new, but the joy of buying was imagining the music through the graphics and titles, of both known and unknown works.

Thanks for the interesting topic, Mgrenwick.
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Santana's Abraxas in 1970 was the first album I purchased. I loved the music :music: but had to hide the album from my parents because the cover has a naked lady on it! :eek2:

Yes, it’s true. :yes:

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Deep step for your first album, and like it!

1st record - Tommy Roe 'Sweet Pea'

1st album - Moody Blues 'Days of Future Passed'

Great thread!

Elton John - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.

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Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home

Probably in ‘66 or ‘67. I still have it, but the original sounds pretty scruffy now, I played the crap out of it on my dad’s KLH “portable record player.” I wrote a paper on “Mr. Tambourine Man” for my sophomore high school English class, in which I’m pretty sure I completely misinterpreted the lyrics.

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It's funny..
 

It's funny, I never got into the Beatles.
I'm not sure why, I just was never exposed to them.
With my new HiFi setup I promised I would rectify this.
It just becomes overwhelming when a band has such a large and varying catalog.
Debating where I should even start.

Ha - I bet it would be a great read today - still have the paper?

Bought my first record - what was yours?
 

No, but I know I was surprised later to learn that the Tambourine man was a dealer - at the age of 14 I was still clueless about such things.

So correction, the album showed up today.
States its a 1973 on cover and disc...Im confused b/c MOFI states 1979
Records looks mint just like seller said!

Gregory Isaacs-Out Deh. My youth was the glorious transition from Jamaican Reggae to Dancehall. A golden period from a small island, the very best of 'pop' music at the time.

My first record was a 45 and I bought two. Beatles Hey Jude and Revolution; CCR Down on the Corner and
Fortunate Son.

Led Zeppelin IV and Houses of the Holy, on the same day, plus a black Led Zeppelin T-shirt with the funky lettering that made my mother think I was listening to devil worship music.

Saved all summer for that.

I’m probably going to regret saying this, but I bought my first record when I was a kid back in 1977 and it was the Star Wars soundtrack. I wasn’t really into music yet but I was into Star Wars.

Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell

The Beatles UK catalog has 13 albums. Not so bad compared to other artists from the 60’s and 70’s that are still releasing albums.

If you can’t purchase them all at once I would start from the beginning with “Please Please Me” and continue in order of release so you can experience how the Beatles evolved.

This would mean that the album was 1st released in 1973 but the MOFI release of the album was reissued in 1979.

Black Sabbath Paranoid

I bought it as well. :thumbsup:

Black Sabbath - Master of Reality (circa 1972)
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The first two LP's that I was given as a birthday present were The Band's Cahoots and Zeppelin IV.

After that I got my first record player and the first LP that I bought was...

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Sabbath, Zeppelin, Moody Blues, Elton John, I absolutely love your first albums. I had most of those too.

Ha ha ha good point Mikado463, records and albums are different. When I was really young, I had a bunch of 45s, but I think I didn’t buy any of those, just appropriated them from my mom.

Love this topic.

That Alice cooper album was fantastic. It wasn’t my first, but one of the firsts.

Took your advice.
Just bought a mint 1976 Japanese pressing of "Please Please Me"
As well as 15 other records today!
I have a problem...

My mother was less than thrilled when she found it ;-)

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Wendy O. Was fantastic! :thumbsup:

I couldn't agree more. I love them! Long story (sort of) short-ish.. I bought everything from them that I saw come through my local record store (among many other punk records from that time). Who doesn't like blue mohawks and pink tutu's? I never had a TT when I was younger and occasionally got to play my records at friends houses. They lived in original sleeves in M & NM+ condition in a bunch of milk crates in my parents basement until I was into my late 20's.. I moved far out of state with the intention that I would collect my things when I got settled in.. sister had a sassy cat that marked it's territory.. dad threw out what he thought were ruined records. When he told me I was mortified.. when I told him what he had done, he was mortified.. a few years ago I randomly connected with Wes Beech and mentioned the story and he hooked me up with everything I was missing from my original collection and he signed 4 of them and threw in a guitar pick. I was so appreciative for that. Very cool guy!

The first album I bought new was Hotel California.
I bought it from a Walgreens I think and i remember wishing i had enough money to buy the new video game that was on display; Pong!
I also saved up enough to buy a set of Puma Clyde's that summer.
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I think is was around 10 at the time. It was the movie soundtrack to Star Wars. I still have it, but it’s all scratched.

My first vinyl LP, bought with my own money, was the soundtrack to 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The Stones- Tattoo You was an early buy as well, couldn't afford Some girls at the same time sadly.

Eric Clapton - Unplugged

Massive mistake as I then had to spend a lot of $$$ because I fell in love with the sound and the cheap TT I bought to deep my toe in just couldn't cut it already.

Baby Sittin’ Boogie by Buzz Clifford a 45 in early 1961. Hey, I was only ten years old at the time. Still buying music to this day.

My first vinyl bought in 1976 ...

You bunch of youngsters.............. Chuck Berry's "Chuck Berry is on Top". Family had purchased a new Magnavox console and we each got to choose an LP to got with it.