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[relaxor]

Paul Simon - Graceland

 

[Codeblue]

Pretty please with myself. This was like in 2006, before that I'd just take whatever my sister was listening to and pop it in.

 

[ClassyPenguin]

blew my 12 year old mind.

 

[Hobbestetrician]

Bush - Sixteen Stone

No regrets.

 

[Judderman]

I won the first album I ever owned from a radio station giveaway. It was...

Ugh.

The first album I ever bought was either the Star Wars: Episode 1 soundtrack, Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory, or Busta Rhyme's Genesis. I forget the order.

 

[Jitters]

Metallica's "...And Justice For All"

 

[thebigtony]

I'm still blue

I thought I was the only one

 

[acheron_xl]

My first cassette was Bruce Hornsby and the Range's 'The Way It Is.'

My first CD was Nirvana's 'Nevermind.'

My first MP3 album was They Might Be Giants' 'Long Tall Weekend."

 

[Mario]

 

[Luixfern]

That's right, ON TAPE SUCKAS!

 

[Bobby Roberts]

it was a two-fer. Got em as a nervous 12 year old at the Fred Meyer music section with my allowance and lawnmowing money. Waited til I knew mom was deep into her grocery list before made my move towards electronics. Was scared the clerk was gonna call me on buying "inappropriate materials" but he didn't give a shit.

This was basically the soundtrack for 1990, as far as I was concerned.

 

[Out of Working Order]

Dido.

Don't like her music now at all.

 

[GraveHorizon]

Smile by L'Arc~en~Ciel

Bought at the state fair in an anime tent

Spoiler

by my friend.

Listened to it on repeat while re-reading the last 3 Harry Potter books, so there are at least a few songs that make me think of long nights spent studying up in Gryffindor Tower.

 

[senahorse]

Paul Simon - Graceland

+1 with Michael Jackson's Bad, both on cassette

 

[OJdaKiller]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFjctVBg6K8

You're Crumbelievable!!!

 

[commedieu]

back up gaf.

 

[bsb]

1993.

/hangs head in shame

I think this was mine too. On cassette, no less.

 

[Suzaku]

Baby, Baby, Baby is still a good track.

RIP Left Eye

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Baby, Baby, Baby is still a good track.

RIP Left Eye

I don't give a shit what anyone says - that was a solid album in the era of New Jack Swing

Hat 2 Da Back
Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg
What About Your Friends
Baby Baby Baby

In the days of 8 dollar cassettes, that was a pretty decent hit-to-filler ratio.

 

[BertramCooper]

Creed.

I'm so sorry.

 

[The Faceless Master]

first (and last) cassette? HIStory Past, Present and Future Book I

first CD? Reggae Gold '95

first DD purchase... i really don't remember but it was before...

last CD? Soca Escape (<- had to import that from Japan, thank you Amazon.jp!)

 

[eso76]

i don't remember the first, but i do remember walking home holding this in my hand

and being very embarassed.
(awesome album, but i have no idea what Prince was thinking when he came up with that cover)


now this, on the other hand, was embarassing in every possible way, but i had a manly crush for this (bad) guy back then

 

[RiccochetJ]

AC/DC live. Worth every penny.

 

[Salsa]

0 regrets. Saved for it.

 

[rCIZZLE]

Men In Black soundtrack. Everything else up to that point was from my brother's collection.

 

[Sajjaja]

Such a good album.

 

[Gustav]

 

[balddemon]

hells yeah. i'm sure someone already posted it, but hells yeah.

 

[dejay]

First album...

I still consider it a great album - probably their last good one. I'm not ashamed.

I am, however, less proud of my first single...

Yes, that is a Twisted Sister pin on my uniform.

I don't know if this can be beat. The debut album and magnum opus of Australian Idol runner-up Shannon Noll.

Man, I still love Bring it all Back.

This should be bannable.

 

[turnbuckle]

When I was in 4th grade. Got this and a portable CD player with a bunch of saved up allowance money. Didn't own a second album until TLC's CrazySexyCool came out a few years later.

The CD went through hell and back. It fell out of my backpack or something and was left outside through a winter, and it still worked afterwards. The amount of scratches on that thing was impressive.

 

[Jay Sosa]

 

[MattDoza]

I was about 12 at the time. I might still have it in a box, somewhere. Willenium was purchased not too long after, in '99. I was so cool.

 

[Pillville]

 

[dantevsninjas]

My first CD purchase was Use Your Illusion Volume 2. I was a cool kid.

 

[teruterubozu]

Before I got into metal.

 

[MyEpitomeCliché]

Cassette tape? I can't recall. It was probably some 80's movie soundtrack.

First CD:

 

[Malvolio]

First album I purchased. Had a few others that were bought for me before this one.

 

[morningbus]

First album I ever bought with my own money?

Come with me.

 

[Whitebison]

 

[Outlaw]

Notice that most of the stuff here is pre-2000..... There should be a thread for the youngins called: "what's the first CD you downloaded"

 

[FnordChan]

I forget the exact first album I purchased with my own money as opposed to Mom buying something for me, but it probably involved Weird Al on cassette. However, I do fondly remember my first CD purchase:

Anthrax's I'm The Man EP, purchased twenty-five years ago. Ah, nostalgia! If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go crank up "I Am The Law" at hearing destroying levels.

I'm The Fnord

 

[Dishwalla]

My first two albums that I bought were Dookie and Americana, at that Fred Meyer way back in 1998. I still hold a lot of love for Dookie, but not so much for Americana(though there's a couple cool songs on the album).

 

[Mighty Chin]

Twisted Sister Stay Hungry

 

[Crimson Clown]

Actually a pretty awful compilation in terms of what's missing but it was good enough to ignite my obsession.

 

[LakeEarth]

NINE POINT NINE FIVE

 

[Plasticine]

The first tape I ever bought.

The first CD I ever bought.

The first vinyl release I ever bought. I only purchased it because it came out a month or so before the CD release.

I would post the first digital release I bought, but I honestly don't remember.

 

[cameltoe]

Aerosmith's Greatest Hits...

.....Stopped at a friends house on the way home, she was listening to something that was just fucking incredible, something new (at least to me) something fucking heavy! I ask her what she is listening to, "Ride the Lightning" she says. I need this NOW! So I trade her the Aerosmith tape for RTL! And so begins my obsession with Metallica. This was 1985.

 

[teruterubozu]

I forget the exact first album I purchased with my own money as opposed to Mom buying something for me, but it probably involved Weird Al on cassette. However, I do fondly remember my first CD purchase:

Anthrax's I'm The Man EP, purchased twenty-five years ago. Ah, nostalgia! If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go crank up "I Am The Law" at hearing destroying levels.

I'm The Fnord

Holy shit I remember this EP. Basically the Run DMC-Aerosmith thing had everyone rapping.

 

[Tawpgun]

Never bought albums ever. Used to just get everything from downloads/limewire.

But the first album I actually bought to support it was The Resistance when it came out.

 

[entremet]

NINE POINT NINE FIVE

Awesome, though. Secret of the Ooze had a better soundtrack. Ninja Rap!