Music question: What was your first LP/Cassette/CD/etc?

LP: Bruce Springsteen "Born To Run" in 1983.

Cassette: Rush "Permanent Waves" in 1981.

CD: Pearl Jam "Ten" in 1991 iirc

First cd given to me for Christmas was Queen Live at Wembley. First cd I ever bought myself was Whats the Story Morning Glory by Oasis.

LPs were before my time and I never bought into cassettes. First CD though, that was either Nazareth's Hair Of The Dog given to me by my father or Audioslave's self-titled album from my older sister.

First LP was Thriller. First cassette was Black Sabbath. First CD was Dire Straits Alchemy. First MP3 was MM The Beautiful People.

First music bought was "Sugar Sugar" by the Archies on 45. Don't remember first 8-track. Cassette was Alice Cooper "Billion Dollar Babies". LP...just stole my brothers stuff! Think it was Elton John. CD Meatloaf "Bat out of Hell".

First 45 was Lady Willpower by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap. 1967? LP would be Neil Diamond probably. 8 track? Somthing in 1976, I suppose. Never owned a prerecorded cassette. CD? No clue. Got a player in the mid 80's, I think. Online, nothing so far.

Van Halen - 5150
Followed by Rush - 2112

First tape I bought was

Def Lepard : pyromania.

First CD I bought was

Six Feet Deep : Struggle

First Tape: U2 "The Joshua Tree" ~1987
First CD: U2 "Achtung Baby" ~1992

So, LP was JP Unleashed in the east... but I didn't fill out the rest.

• 8 track, I bought these used from a local flea market often starting with Deep Purple Machine Head.
• Cassette, Ozzy Ozbourne's solo debut, Blizzard of Oz
• CD, either Yes: 90125 or Merciful Fate: Melissa, I can't remember. Maybe Iron Maiden's Piece of Mind. When CD's came out I had a job so I went nuts squandering money.

First cassette purchased was Van Halen Diver Down.

I still haven't purchased a CD or downloaded a song from I tunes. The radio works just fine for me.

The first cassette I bought myself was either Weird Al in 3D or Steven Wright's I have a pony. I don't remember my first CD.

first LP: Beatles "Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band"

first Cassette: Moody Blues "In Search of the Lost Chord"

first CD: Marillian "Misplaced Childhood"

First cassette: Culture Club, Colour by Numbers (Still have it)

First CD: Depeche Mode, Some Great Reward

First LP: Shut Down, various artists. Interesting thing about this LP was it being left behind by my Dad after the divorce. I played the hell out of that record. 409, Chicken, Little Deuce Coupe, Black Denim Trousers, Cheater Slicks, and others. I lost it somewhere along the way. I spent my adult life trying to find a copy to replace it. Then, a week before moving back to Vermont from Atlanta, while wasting time for my last SCCA Atlanta Region Solo2 meeting I happened upon a record store going out of business. I go inside to poke a round and the clerk asks if I'm looking for anything in particular. I mention the album. He says sure I got it. We just did inventory. Sure enough it's the right one, in its original sleeve with paper. Half price at $12.50. Score. A friend at work transfered it to 2 discs. One for me and one for my Dad. He was totally surprised. One of the few times we ever connected.

My first LP was a gift from my much older cousin when I was about five or six, Destroyer by KISS. It came with a membership for the KISS army. My mom sewed the patch on the back of my jean jacket.

We had a Realistic 8 track player that my grandfather gave us. I remember my mom buying Thriller for it. My dad had an 8 track player in his 78 F150. I remember some "oldies" tapes he had- one of them had the song Ahab the A-rab on it.

The first cassette I bought was Somewhere in Time by Iron Maiden, I'm pretty sure I was 12. My best friend and I were in the record store to spend our lawn mowing money. He convinced me that Metallica was way too hard for me, that Iron Maiden was a safe bet. He bought Slippery When Wet by Bon Jovi with the original album art on it. Wuss.

I don't recall the first CD I bought with my own money. But the first two I owned were Christmas gifts from my dad. Get Close by the Pretenders and Whiplash Smile by Billy Idol. Pretty sure I was 13 (1987). When CDs came in the tall cardboard packaging...

Edit- forgot the MP3 part. I don't remember the first download I paid for, but the first MP3's I had came off of Napster.

Gosh, this takes some effort in the "time machine.

First LP was a gift to my older sister and me. It was "More of the Monkees" by The Monkees.

First LP I bought was a used copy of "A Hard Day's Night" by the Beatles.

First 8 track was probably "LA Woman" by the Doors.

Think the first cassette was a comedy album released in the 70's, but I can't recall who the comic was. Might have been Steve Martin, Cheech & Chong, or Eddie Murphy?

First CD was a re-release of a Rush album. I think it was "2112".

First MP3 was something I ripped from a CD I had. Think it was "Brothers in Arms" by Dire Straits.

vwcorvette wrote: First LP: Shut Down, various artists. Interesting thing about this LP was it being left behind by my Dad after the divorce. I played the hell out of that record. 409, Chicken, Little Deuce Coupe, Black Denim Trousers, Cheater Slicks, and others. I lost it somewhere along the way. I spent my adult life trying to find a copy to replace it. Then, a week before moving back to Vermont from Atlanta, while wasting time for my last SCCA Atlanta Region Solo2 meeting I happened upon a record store going out of business. I go inside to poke a round and the clerk asks if I'm looking for anything in particular. I mention the album. He says sure I got it. We just did inventory. Sure enough it's the right one, in its original sleeve with paper. Half price at $12.50. Score. A friend at work transfered it to 2 discs. One for me and one for my Dad. He was totally surprised. One of the few times we ever connected.

I've got Shut Down. Heard about it somewhere - might have been here - and found that it was on eMusic. Not as cool as finding it in a soon-to-be-extinct record store, but it made me pretty happy.

First single I bought was Fight For Your Right. My parents would probably really happy to find out I still know pretty much all the words.

And I happen to have a copy of Alanis' first single on 45. "Fate Stay with Me", she was 11 and we went to school together. Can't imagine what it's worth - mine's autographed.

I forgot one: the first cassette tape I ever bought.

I mentioned that my sister gave me her worn out Def Leppard: Pyromania tape. That started me on a trend at a very young age of listening to 80's heavy/hair metal. When I was 5 in 1987, I wanted another tape, so my dad took my sister and I to Bradlees (if you lived in the Northeast, you know what store I'm talking about) and we went to the barricaded-off "electronics" section. My older sister was a MTV junkie, so naturally, when she was watching me, I'd be sitting on the couch watching it too. One of my favorite videos was Dream Warriors by Dokken, so I bought their Back for the Attack album. So awesome.

I don't know where that tape is anymore, but I bought the LP years later once I started tracking down metal classics for my vinyl collection. It's still in my rotation.

The first LP I can remember buying was Jerry Jeff Walker - Viva Terlingua! The 8-track version was likely my first tape purchase as well.

First LP: KISS - Destroyer

First CD: Wayne's World Soundtrack (I'm as confused as anybody in restrospect)

Never really bought cassettes, as my dad instilled in me that they were generally on crap-quality tape, and that I should always just buy the LP and record it onto a good-quality cassette on good equipment. That would avoid depositing crud on the tape deck's works and I'd have the source to record another if the pencil-rewind trick couldn't save a casualty :)

First vinyl: I honestly don't remember, some kids' music thing (it was the 70s)

First cassette: The Beatles 20 Greatest Hits.

First CD: Pink Floyd - The Final Cut.

Bonus! First digital downloaded album: Van Halen - A Different Kind of Truth.

slantvaliant wrote: The first LP I can remember buying was Jerry Jeff Walker - Viva Terlingua! The 8-track version was likely my first tape purchase as well.

That is one of the finest albums of all time.

Vanilla ice on tape , limp bizkits 3 dolla bill on cd.

First LP: either a K-Tel record of assorted crap that also contained Kiss "Rock and roll all night", or Kiss "Double Platinum".

First cassette: hmmm either Foreigner "Head games" or AC/DC "Back in Black"

First CD: pretty sure it was Lita Ford (forget the name, around late 80s, "Red" maybe?)

EDIT: local radio station WEBN had Album Projects, probably yearly, that had decent local bands. I had 3 I think, all early 80s.

First CD: I believe it was Joe Satriani - Not of This Earth

First SACD: Mariah Carey - #1's (heavily used copy off Amazon, still rediculously expensive - no way I was going to pay the asking prices for new copies, just wanted a highly rated/mastered SACD to try out...)

First digital download: Haywyre - Infinite, in 16bit, 44.1kHz FLAC format. Sounds no different in quality than the other two Haywyre albums I have on CD.

Still looking to try out a High-Resolution album download.