First music you ever bought

[lihpster]

I grew up listening to my parents music and luckily they had good taste. I also had 2 older brothers. One of them had good taste. But the first music I ever bought, the first music I ever sought out and decided it was worth more than the greenbacks in my wallet, how does it stack up today? Did I make good choices? Music for the ages? Lets examine it. When I was about 12 years old, I found myself in possession of a small sum of money, having earned it digging a ditch for the guys building a house next to mine. The very next retail establishment I found myself in was a used record store. I had enough for 4 albums. This is what I bought:
1. Pat Travers live album
2. Judas Priest British Steel
3. AC/DC Back in Black
4. Pink Floyd Animals.
I think I did good. 3 and 4 are absolute classics and arguably the best from their respective artists. 2 was the first big thing for a band that would help define a genre. 1 I got because of the song, "BOOM! BOOM! Out go the Lights" 75% isn't bad. So, what was your first music purchase?

 

[Sevens]

Hahaha I bought Loverboy, Get Lucky on cassette. That was my first ever.

 

[326MOD10]

Thin Lizzy

Jailbreak

Still love 'The Boys Are Back In Town'

It was on cassette.

 

[quikdraw67]

1st rock album I bought was Boston.

I still think it's one of the best albums ever.

 

[moosedog]

Wow, you guys are young. Mine was Dick Dale and the Del Tones on a LP album in 1963.
And yes, we actually had electricity back then.

 

[kraynky]

The Grass Roots Greatest Hits 1971. I played the heck out of that album. Probably could remember most of the lyrics if I heard the tune still today!

Don't recall my first 8-track though, but I had a bunch of them.

 

[ACORN]

Black Sabbath Paranoid. My parents had an Emerson floor model hi-fi, that had a friction catch for the lid. After playing it for the first(and only)time, I was taking it off of the changer to put it in the sleeve when the lid came down, slammed the record, and broke it.

 

[lihpster]

Black Sabbath Paranoid. My parents had an Emerson floor model hi-fi, that had a friction catch for the lid. After playing it for the first(and only)time, I was taking it off of the changer to put it in the sleeve when the lid came down, slammed the record, and broke it.

Maybe they were out to get you?

 

[Valmet]

Stone Temple Pilots "Core" from 1992...on tape. For the record I was born in 81.

 

[Ole Joe Clark]

Can't remember back that far. Might have been some Chet Atkins.

Leon

 

[BigBoy99]

The first and last 45 rpm record I bought was "At the Hop" by Danny and Juniors. (circa late 1950's) The record was 99 cents and for the 2 minutes of music it supplied, I figured listening to the radio was a much cheaper and better way to hear music.

 

[bigwheelzip]

A 45 of Wipe Out.

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[arjay]

In a Gadda da vida followed by Deja Vu

 

[Cdog]

The Hombres "Let it all hang out" is the first 45 I remember buying.

The Monkees were really big. I had a plethora of their 45's.

The first album I remember buying was Three Dog Night "Captured Live At The Forum"

 

[dirty & hairy]

The Eagles

On The Border

 

[jeffrefrig]

The first album I bought was "Shhh" by Ten Years After. Still have it and it still has no scratches or skips. My sister gave me my first two albums, Jimi Hendrix "Smash Hits" and "Led Zep III" I don't have those two any more on vinyl, but on CDs.
I asked my mom to get me an Alice Cooper album when she was going to the mall. She came home and threw the $10 back at me and said "I'm not buying you a record with a song called Dead Babies on it!" I told her the song was about poor parenting but she didn't want it in the house! I still have that one, too, since I bought it myself.

 

[quikdraw67]

Wow, you guys are young. Mine was Dick Dale and the Del Tones on a LP album in 1963.
And yes, we actually had electricity back then.

And here I thought that you would have been using a hand cranked Victrola

 

[mmb617]

In a Gadda da vida followed by Deja Vu

Too funny, I thought I'd be the only one to say In a gadda da vida was the first LP I ever bought with my own money. My mother was in one of those record club deals and I talked her into buying some Beach Boys LP's prior to that.

My mom had some 78's but they weren't really my style.

I'd bought 45's before that but can't remember which one of them was the first.

Remember the old record players with a switch to choose speeds 16, 33, 45, 78. I never saw a 16 rpm record though.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I think it was Ray Charles.
'The Genius of Ray Charles.'

 

[DGNY]

I had listened to Canadian radio (740 AM?) for the classics' programming. First LP was some of G. F. Handel 's Water Music on a $1.00 recording - part of a series offered by Loblaw supermarket chain. Still speaks to me.