Can anyone remember the first record that you bought? Did you scrimp and save for it? Do extra jobs around the house?

Mine was U2 WAR .... it was the first thing I bought with the first pay from my after school job.

Vinyl ...ahhhh, those were the days!

I'm not sure what was the first one
it was a cassette, but can't remember what it was.

now, my first CD
that was the two soundtracks 'Top Gun' and 'Dirty Dancing'
I bought them at the same time...

The first record I bought was "Mystery Girl - Roy Orbison". I would've been about 10 at the time, but I was so in love with him (as a singer, that is!). I won the money in a talent contest that me & my sisters entered. We each got $19 (Aus, of course), and the record cost $18.99. I cried when I found out he had died, and I would listen to my record all the time and just sit there, bawling. God I was a depressed child - and I thought it was just something I grew into!!

When I was around 8 yrs old my mom bought me a 45 of Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John". I loved that record. Nowadays he sells sausage. The first album I bought on my own was Janis Joplin's "Cheap Thrills". I'm not a big fan of Janis but the album had a cool cover.

I think it was called "When a Man Loves a Woman." I'm not sure. If that isn't the title of the song it must had been the chorus or it could have been the name of another song that was popular at the time. Who knows? All that I remember clearly is that the album cover was white and had a picture of a rose on it on the front and on the back it had the lyrics, and at times the lyrics and the song didn't match.
It is funny that I don't remember the song. From the moment I woke up until I fell asleep I'd blast the song again, and again, and again. It was either the only song on the album or it was the first one. Either way, it was the only one I listened to. Since it was my first record I didn't know how to take care of it. The entire thing was scratched up and I had to pick up the needle for it to continue playing from time to time.
Eventually, no one in my family could stand it any longer and the hid it from me. It is probably in some closet somewhere waiting for me to blast it for one last time- I used to tell everyone it will be my wedding song.
If anyone thinks they know the album I'm talking about I'd appreciate you posting it for me. If it helps- it was a balled, male/female duet about two lovers going through life together and I remember them mentioning something about the sunshine and the rain.

I think it was "Come Together" by the Beatles...

Either "The Specials" by the Specials or "Tubeway Army" by Tubeway Army (the band that featured Gary Numan) around about 1979, and I still love them although the original records have long since passed away!

When I was 8 years old, my mother surprised me with the Meet The Beatles album. Needless to say I wore it out in just a few weeks. Plus, my family was really sick of it, by then. But I never forgot her kindness! The first album I bought was the next Beatles album, which I can't remember the name of it at this time. I did chores and saved my allowance to purchase it. But it was worth it! We had 45's back then, if anyone remembers what those are. I had over a hundred 45's, but they only cost 50 cents then.

the first album I ever got (Big People's Record, is what I called it) was Olivia Newton-John's Greatest Hits when I was six or seven. the first one I ever bought for myself was Boston at about age 10. I usually bought 45 rpm's with my allowance money, but I saved for like 11 weeks for this one ( $1.00 a week)

[ 10-16-2001: Message edited by: malizma ]

'Rattus Norvegicus' by The Stranglers 1977

I can remember having to turn the volume down on my Fidelity mono record player, during 'Peaches', whenever the (ahem) dirty words came along!

Claim to fame: Dave Greenfield let me slip on the furry coat he was wearing on the album cover at a gig at Southampton Gaumont in 79

Love
wez x

The first album I ever got was a record of cowboy songs. My folks got it for me when I was about 4 or 5. My sister got one with bedtime stories. We still have them. The first one I bought myself was the Partridge Family Shopping Bag album. I must have been about 8 or 9. I think I used birthday money or my allowance.

The first album I purchased was one by Trudi Richards when I was stationed at Wheelus AFB in Tripoli Libya back, and I mean waaay back in 1958.

Layla by Eric Clapton. My brother bought it for me when I was ten. Still love it.

Lough

Boston LP with "More than a Feeling." I saved my allowance money of $ 1.00 a week for it !!!

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Mine was the Simpsons. I'm too young!!!!

my dad helped my sister and i to save up to buy our first record. he also took us down to the local shop to buy is: kmk records, where we listened to it in a booth first and then bought it:
nutbush city limits - ike and tina turner
i still have it. dad taught us to look after our records really well and so it is still playable today - no scratches on it. it still sounds as great as it did in the music booth in kmk (sigh ... !)

ooh i forgot to say that my first LP record was a compilation album called 'Boogie Bus'(1979) and had remix versions of songs like YMCA, Shake ur groove thing, i will survive.
it cost (3.15 pre tax) from Makro !!!
feelings of mega nostalgia are overwhelming me

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My first album was Please please me by the fabulous Beetles.
I bought that arounrd 1963. My first single was Singing the blues by Guy Mitchel on the so easyly breakable 78rpm. That was around 1956. (sad)

First single I ever bought was "my sweet lord " by George Harrison. First album was "school's out" by Alice Cooper. Both bring back great memories!

mine...i was 6...i traded a chocolate pudding, .10 cents, and 6 of my mom's chocolate chip cookies for AC/DC's Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.....mom came home and heard me singing it under the headphones...she was not impressed...hehe...

The first record i ever bought was 'star' by kiki dee and i was flush at the time so i also bought 'my old piano' by diana ross. Thank god my taste inmusic has changed since the early eighties (or was it late seventies).

I was so proud of the first tape I bought, it was The Bangles "Different Light".

My first album was a compilation cassette, one of the old pirated versions, purchased in the late 60s. The song list was transposed incorrectly, and it was many years before I realised that 'Ernie, he Drove the Fastest Milkcart in the West', by Benny Hill was NOT the 'Theme from Shaft', as the cover claimed it was.

My first album purchase was, and I'm a little ashamed to admit it now, "The Monkee's Headquarters". It was great fun at the time, though, and a greatly appreciated birthday gift from my folks. So I guess I really didn't purchase it. My first album with my own money was "Peter, Paul and Mary".