Your FIRST self bought music album/casette/single

[Vader]

KISS - Alive II

I was 7 years old. The older brother of a mate bought it and I was so fascinated by the cover that had to have it, too without even knowing the music. That was back in 1977. Since that day I have been lost for music without guitars.

[High Lord Tolkien]

Elvis, Live at Madison Square Garden.

I didn't even know who he was but some of the songs on the TV sounded cool to me.
So I wrote the address down and my Mom wrote a check. I think it was $12 or something.
Yes, I bought it by mail from a a TV ad.
I was 12.
My older brother thought there was something wrong with me, I should have been listening to Elvis Costello not Presley.

By the way, on it, he does a version of "the Impossible Dream" that is FANTASTIC.
I don't think it's on any of his other albums.

[Krazy Kat]

I had few LP's that I'd bought from second-hand stores, but Relics was the first one I bought new. I never had much money in those days. Relics sold for £1.50 ($2.30).

[dANdeLION]

Got it for a dime at a flea market, not long after it was released. Some mom selling her daughter's stuff, who went off to college.

[Akasri]

Rush: 2112

on 8-track ... listened to it straight through and then ran back to the store to pick up Rush: Self-titled and Rush: Fly by Night. Been a huge Rush fan ever since.

Saw them live in Kansas City in July and it was awesome. Seeing them again in Tulsa in September. Life is good!

[Cagliostro]

I went in with my sisters prior to this on the soundtrack to Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band movie, but this was my first fully funded purchase.

It got me into ELO for a while.

That is if we are talking about music. I might have bought the Hobbit and Return of the King (Rankin Bass versions) read along story albums before that.

[Orlion]

Third Eye Blind.

[Relayer]

American Pie. On 8-track.

[Krazy Kat]

Hi Relayer,

The first Relayer album I bought had a bubbled label. On closer inspection it turned out to be a double label. I peeled it off and kept it as treasured possession for a long time, but eventually it disappeared as do all trivial things.

[Relayer]

Cool story KK!

[lucimay]

i can't quite recall what my first 'self' purchase would have been because i was buying 45's or at least picking them out and mother buying them for me when i was a bitty girl. like...the 45's i was most enamoured of were of course the Capitol Beatles 45's. i had a ton of em. and mother bought most of em, but my gran's also bought them for me. no one ever told me what to buy, i picked my own music from the time i was a bitty girl.
so...i got no clue what the first album i bought with my own money might've been. also my dad and mom and i always had pretty much the same tastes in music so what they bought i listened to and what i picked out they liked too. yeah my dad didn't start disliking my musical tastes until i was well into high school and listening to Uriah Heep!! LOL

i remember distinctly when daddy brought home 3 albums..cause it was pointedly for the three of us, me, mother, and him.



for my mom.



for me, and



for himself.

[Vader]

for himself.

My uncle had (and still has) the old San Quentin LP. I used to listento it everytime I visited auntie and uncle. My uncle is English, so he helped me understanding the lyrics. It might have improved my foreign language skills. I remember at that time my marks in English at school were still pretty bad. Anyway, the LP had all these *beeps* and it was fun to guess what Cash might have said originally. Now, years later, I bought the San Quentin CD Box (Legacy Edition, 2 CDs plus DVD) twice. One for me and one for my uncle. Now we don't have to guess anymore since there are no *beeps* there anymore.

[Relayer]

I remember my Dad bringing home a bunch of albums that were a gift from a client of his, before I was really into music at all. Well, I used to listen to AM radio but that doesn't count

The only one I really remember was the cover to Jethro Tull's Aqualung, and that I didn't like it because the cover was scary (I was a very innocent 11 year old). It took me a couple more years before I started liking "FM music." My parents were into musicals and 40's stuff so they gave them away. If I'd only known!!

[stonemaybe]

I can't remember which if any of these three 7"s was me or one of my sisters - I know later, i claimed all three as my own!



or



or



Albums - I have a suspicion that this was the first album I bought, but I bought it for a present for my sister, but then tried to claim it back after we had a row...



The first one I definitely remember buying for myself (as a cassette), with my own money, was this (I will never forget insisting on playing it for the first time, on a car journey with my parents, not realising the lyric content! Before the days of 'parental guidance' stickers!)

[Lord Zombiac]

first 7": Tusk by Fleetwood Mac
I also bought "Music box dancer" by (unknown) and "Tragedy" by the Bee Gees.
The first album I paid for was either by KISS or the Beatles... I don't remember.

[Lord Zombiac]

This may sound weird to you, but now that I think of it, the first album I bought was "Trout Mask Replica" by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. I remember now because it was the only album in my room and it was also the first album someone stole from me!

[Lord Zombiac]

I had few LP's that I'd bought from second-hand stores, but Relics was the first one I bought new. I never had much money in those days. Relics sold for £1.50 ($2.30).

This may have been the second or third album I ever bought, but I bought it at a garage sale and the artwork looked like this:

[sgt.null]

if i had to guess.

john lennon's double fantasy???

[Lord Zombiac]

I didn't want to start a fresh thread, but here's a peak at the first albums I owned:

[danlo]

first album after highschool:

(and this is before anybody really knew who Rush was...heard this song on the radio called Closer to the Heart and had to get it...)
as far as I can remember...

Albums my older sister gave me at 12-The Grass Roots, Hendrix-Are You Experienced, Jefferson Airplane-Surrealistic Pillow, Bob Dylan-Highway 61 Revisited-Meet the Beatles, Pink Floyd-Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother.