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offacue [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 3:38:51 PM  
45 of Hey Jude b/w Revolution when it came out.  Now I've got ~8000 albums ~1000 CD's and the concert and classic movie DVD/Blu-ray/4K collection is growing.
 
giantmeteor [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 3:39:57 PM  
Ace Freeley's solo album. I was 8 years old, and thought that KISS was cool.
 
bikkurikun
2023-01-11 3:40:06 PM  
The Sundays: Reading, Writing & Arithmetic.
 
EvilEgg [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-11 3:41:10 PM  
Billy Joel, Glass Houses.

I think, I wouldn't bet money on it, it may have been Nylon Curtain/
 
meehaw [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-11 3:42:47 PM  
Blondie, "Call me" on 45.
 
Kilted_Dude [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 3:44:22 PM  
Theater of Pain - Motley Crue
ZZ Top - Eliminator 

First 45? Queen's - Another one bites the Dust
 
freddyV [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 3:44:58 PM  
Bought a lot of 45s when I was young.
I think Hey Jude was the first of those.

First album I remember getting as a gift was 461 Ocean Boulevard by Clapton.

First one I remember buying with my own cash was News of the World by Queen
 
EatHam [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 3:45:46 PM  
Probably something from Judas Priest or Iron Maiden
 
revrendjim [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-11 3:47:29 PM  
Probably a Beatles 45. First album was Black Sabbath Paranoid in 7th grade. It changed my life.
 
gunga galunga [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 3:47:55 PM  
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enry [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 3:50:21 PM  
For/by myself?  Probably a cassette of some kind.  Some 80s music no doubt.

First CD was DSOTM.  By then I was smarter.
 
Mangoose [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 3:52:05 PM  
I honestly couldn't tell you what the first record or tape I bought. I just don't remember. First two CDs I bought were a Steel Pulse anthology and Delicate Sounds of Thunder.
 
HeathenHealer [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 3:53:50 PM  
First vinyl I remember having my dad buy for me: Michael Jackson Thriller.

First two CD's I bought myself after my first "Discman": Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction and Metallica "Black" album.
 
Diogenes [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-11 3:55:20 PM  
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Exluddite [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 3:58:00 PM  
   I think I still have the tape.
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Badmoodman [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 3:58:05 PM  
I was 7 years old.

My brother was a professional musician and played several instruments but made his living on drums.


https://youtu.be/tcpelLe8oHo
 
FlashHarry [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 3:58:30 PM  
Probably a KISS record. Or Get the Knack.
 
fatassbastard [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 4:00:35 PM  
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waxbeans [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 4:01:33 PM  
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And it's apparently an alternative art work.
And I bought it at Flip Side a head shop.
It smelt liked Flip Side for ages.
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I should include  Lou Reed's New York.  Only because I was at flip side and bought it just because it was playing in the background
 
daveinaz [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 4:06:27 PM  
Catch a falling star by Perry Como. Yes, I'm really farking old.
 
OldRod [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-11 4:14:43 PM  
First record I ever bought with my own money was non-musical

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Listened to it a couple times, then my younger brother heard it and told dad I had a "dirty record".  Dad listened to it and laughed, then made me throw it out :(
 
aimtastic [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 4:14:51 PM  
The Police - Synchronicity

Bought it off a kid invthe neighborhood for a dollar. He probably stole it from his parents.
 
AlwaysRightBoy [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 4:15:38 PM  
Beach Boys Surfin' USA, they were bigger than the Beatles to me back in the day.
/ later on I bought many Beatles albums and still have my entire collection of albums ...many many from Frank Zappa
 
ElPrimitivo [BareFark]
2023-01-11 4:28:18 PM  
U2 The Joshua Tree and Sting's Dream of the Blue Turtles.

At the same time, on vinyl at Camelot.

My tastes have changed significantly since then, but there's still a few U2 songs from long ago that I like.

I wouldn't subject myself to anything by Sting.
 
dhcmrlchtdj [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-11 4:31:20 PM  
TMBG - Flood
 
Torgo_of_Manos [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-11 4:33:24 PM  
I am pretty sure it was this one.

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I think I still have it around somewhere
 
Xanadone [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 4:33:53 PM  
Can't remember for sure.  Probably one of three 45s: Dark Lady (Cher), Angie Baby (Helen Reddy), or else Someone Saved My Life Tonight (Elton John).  (So were you a 12 year old girl in 1975?)
 
stovepipe [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-11 4:37:30 PM  
The first two 45's I got as gifts one Easter, I was probably in about 1st grade:

Michael Jackson - Beat It
Weird Al Yankovic - Eat It
 
Combustion [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 4:38:21 PM  
I was 5 and my mom said I could pick out any album I wanted. I grabbed "Back In Black." I loved AC/DC thanks to my 4 older siblings. We didn't get reception on TV way out there, so it was all music. I wasn't disappointed. That album got the crap played out of it by not just me but the older kids for a few months.

The first 2 I bought with my own money from mowing lawns was The Stray Cats and Men At Work. 1982 was a strange year for music.
 
rikdanger [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-11 4:46:34 PM  

OldRod: First record I ever bought with my own money was non-musical

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Listened to it a couple times, then my younger brother heard it and told dad I had a "dirty record".  Dad listened to it and laughed, then made me throw it out :(


Me too.
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Alphax
2023-01-11 4:46:53 PM  
Weird Al Yankovic, 'Dare to be Stupid', on cassette.
 
Nintenfreak [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 4:49:27 PM  
A test record at a thrift shop. One of those they'd use to calibrate audio equipment
 
Rev.K [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-11 5:01:11 PM  
Yes, on cassette.

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vudukungfu [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 5:31:27 PM  
Bootleg Tommy, with Rod Stewart as the local lad.

Btw, that is the role.
Not pinball wizard.
The local lad sings the pinball wizard song about Tommy, but I've listened to sing ass DIs and Who fans for half a century fark it up.
 
puffy999 [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 5:44:29 PM  

offacue: 45 of Hey Jude b/w Revolution when it came out.  Now I've got ~8000 albums ~1000 CD's and the concert and classic movie DVD/Blu-ray/4K collection is growing.


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zond [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-11 5:50:22 PM  
Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends
 
bloobeary [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-11 5:52:15 PM  
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K-Tel, baby. All the hits. One record. Such a deal.
 
ThomasPaineTrain [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 6:07:06 PM  
The Jester Race by In Flames
 
sno man [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 6:12:13 PM  
The Cars - The Cars. There were some 7" singles before that, And a metric ton of 12" singles after.
 
buckeyebrain
2023-01-11 6:25:40 PM  
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Exile On Beale Street [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-11 6:27:37 PM  
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SunTanMan
2023-01-11 6:30:12 PM  
Back in Black - AC/DC when I was 12, still one of my favorites
 
Noticeably F.A.T. [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 6:37:20 PM  
Alabama Live. On CD, because even at 40 I'm on the young side of Fark.
 
Biledriver
2023-01-11 6:42:52 PM  
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I
Grade 7 & a paper route.   It was around 'Heresy' when my Dad came storming in demanding to see the lyric book. Took weeks of pleading before he gave it back.
 
Heamer [BareFark]
2023-01-11 6:45:21 PM  
Though I never bought them, I inherited a boxful of vinyl from my grandmother. The very first one I pulled out of the box was a Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass album, can't remember which.

The first cassette I ever bought with my own money was the Donkey Kong Country original soundtrack in 1995, from Nintendo Power magazine.

The first CD I ever bought was System of a Down's self-titled debut album in 1998.
 
vudukungfu [TotalFark]
2023-01-11 7:09:40 PM  
i did have a record collection in 2964, when I was 8.
But I didn't start buying with cash until the 70s
 
Billy Liar
2023-01-11 7:15:18 PM  
A 45 by David Essex, Rock On b/w On and On.  Around that time, I got a 45 of Simon Stokes's Captain Howdy given to me for my birthday
 
bearded clamorer [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-11 7:21:47 PM  
Lawn mowing money.
I was about 14.

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Panic Near Detroit [BareFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-11 7:34:52 PM  
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Gleeman [BareFark]
2023-01-11 7:37:00 PM  
Pretty sure it was Pink Floyd - The Wall, on double cassettes IIRC.
 
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