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Journal nizo's Journal: First music purchase? 25

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First ever: Thriller (on casette) by Michael Jackson. Umm, yeah.....
 
Def Leppard's Hysteria was my first CD purchase; I listened to it over and over until I couldn't stand it anymore. Though 14 years later I can probably listen to it again.
 
I don't think I have bought any music online yet; I just buy the CD (used) and rip it.
 
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  • Jack and Diane, by John Mellencamp (as he was known then). It was on a 45, and I bought a little plastic 45 insert to go in the middle, so it would fit on our turntable's narrow spindle.

  • The original '68 triple gatefold, bought in '74. Second? Embarrassingly enough, it was "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" - another triple gatefold, also in '74. To counter this, I also purchased the "2001 a Space Odessey" soundtrack that summer.

  • A CD full of classic Scottish tunes. I didn't purchase music until I reached the age of majority.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by nizo ( 81281 ) *

      I actually bought the MJ album with my own cash when I was a teen, and then later got hooked in by one of those scammer "Buy 10 albums for one penny!" deals (Billy Idol was in that batch somewhere). Ahh the memories....

  • Toccata and Fugue in D. On tape. I was never much of a music fan, but a friend got me interested in Classical. Before that, my brother would record the Dr. Demento show and then I would pick and choose songs from those with which to make tapes. I should also say that I could have bought something else earlier, but that's the first purchase I remember. I think my first CD purchase was Beethoven's Symphonies on the LaserLight label: the cheap classics;-)

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      by nizo ( 81281 ) *

      Now I used to tape music off the radio (and very likely prior to buying my first cassette). Man was that a sucky way to get music....

  • So most of the time I'd get free tapes or records - think it wasn't until I was about 15 that I had to pay to buy something and it may have been Heart or AC/DC or Black Sabbath.

  • Soundtrack (Score:1)

    by rk ( 6314 ) *
    to Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I had to really think about that. My Dad was a retail manager and I used to get a lot of tapes from his music supplier, so I didn't have to buy a lot until I started getting music a little more off the beaten track.
  • Can't remember my first ever music purchase. It was probably a George Carlin album.

    First CD was a Clapton compilation that I've since lost.

    I was lucky as there was always lots of music in our house. My mother plays piano, and one thing we were never without was a decent stereo system and lots of albums (including vinyl Beatles, Hendrix, and Python. I probably spent as much time looking at the album covers as I did listening to the albums themselves.)

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by nizo ( 81281 ) *

      Record album covers really used to be incredibly cool(how cool could a dinky little casette tape insert really be?) CDs are slightly better, but still, for a big interesting image, record covers won hands down :-)

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        by plover ( 150551 ) *
        Oh, yeah. The most excellent album cover I ever had or saw was the "School's Out" album by Alice Cooper. Instead of the simple cardboard sleeve, it looked like a heavily carved and vandalized wooden school-desk top. The cover had an extra cardboard flap that lifted up at the hinge point of the desk lid in the image, and revealed a photo of the interior of a school desk, filled with crap like bottles of glue, scissors, pencils, notebooks, etc. And the bottom of the desk also had a fold-out feature: two
  • First Cassette I Ever Owned: Triumph: Never Surrender, got it for my 8th birthday.
    First Cassette I ever bought: Ozzy Osbourne: Diary of a Madman
    First CD I ever Owned: Stryper: Against The Law, got it for a birthday with a new stereo...
    First CD I ever bought: Stryper: To Hell With The Devil.

    Last CD Purchased: Demon Hunter: Storm The Gates Of Hell.

  • Freezeframe on cassette, in 1982.

  • Their "Play That Funky Music" single on 45 rpm vinyl media. 4th grade (circa 1975). Man I loved that song. Never got tired of hearing it on Top 40 AM radio at the time, and on rainy days we stayed indoors in Mrs. Camelfart's (her last name was something like Kamelhar) classroom for recesses, and she brought out the plastic beige record player box and let people bring in music, and one kid with impeccable taste similar to mine brought in the single, and it sounded oh so good (in monoraul!), I had to get it.

    I

  • The first music I can remember owning was either "All around my hat" by Steeleye Span, or the eponymous "Father Abraham and the smurfs" album. The first single I can remember buying with my own money was "Don't you want me" by The Human League. My first album was probably either "Anthem" by Toyah or "Vienna" by Ultravox.

  • I'm not sure this was the first but it's the earliest one I remember off the top of my head.

    I bought the Pyromania LP when I was in grade 7 or 8. Every boy in my class had it, I think.

  • on vinyl ... by Iron Butterfly ...

    Followed by the moody blues, 4 Beatles albums (the red one, the blue one, abbey road, sgt. peppers), the stones, pink floyd's meddle album, elton john's yellow brick road album, frampton comes alive, some santana, some 3 dog night, a couple by rick altman (journey to the center of the earth, etc) .. you know, the usual stuff.

  • Paperback Writer by the Beatles on 45 RPM. I likely paid about $0.49 or $0.69 for it. I think I probably bought it in 1971 or 1972. I was about 10 and I remember fixing my dad's record player so I could listen to it.

    Prior to that my parents had bought the records my sister and I listened to, such as "The Teddy Bear's Picnic," and "Puff the Magic Dragon." It was a pretty big deal for me to buy a record of music I wanted to hear.

  • New Clear Days [wikipedia.org] by The Vapors on cassette.

    Later, I started buying vinyl, I think Pat Benatar's album Crimes of Passion was the first.

    The first CD I bought (I haven't liked CD's - by the time they came out, I already saw the music industry as a ripoff, and the price of CD's reinforced that opinion), was Steve Miller Band, Greatest Hits (1974-1978) [wikipedia.org], which I must have purchased in 2004 or 2005. I purchased my first portable CD player in 2004/5, and didn't purchase any music CD's until then.

    I haven't purchase

  • The first music I bought was on CD - I can't remember whether it was a Dire Straits album or Pink Floyd's "Wish you were here".

    I very rarely buy CDs now. I buy more music than ever, but mostly from e-music or Magnatune. I only buy CDs if I can't get a DRM-free download of whatever it is I'm after.

  • First music purchase was 2 cassette tapes:
    Metallica - Master of Puppets
    Anthrax - Among the Living

    First CD purchase, I honestly can't remember.
    I think it might have been Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by nizo ( 81281 ) *

      Heh, I totally forgot about this journal. Wow, you must have just squeaked in before it went dead :-)

      • Yeah, I spend most of my time out on the road these days and don't want to cough up $60/month for that wireless internet that runs off cell phone towers. Truckstop wifi is almost never free or fast, so I don't even bother. That leaves the cablemodem at the house. Meaning I've been able to surf about 4 days a month lately. It should be more often now - I just took a Southeast Regional job with another carrier, which means that in theory, I should be home every weekend. In reality, it'll probably mean 24-34 h

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