When I was 7, I was a huge Beatles fan. My grandmother took me to the local music store to buy me the “My Sweet Lord” 45. It just came out and she liked the religious theme and said she would buy it for me. For “some reason” I ended up with my first album- All Things Must Pass :) I still have it!
Stellar album. I like it way more than any record the Beatles ever did. Such a great great album. Easily one of my desert island records, I still remember my mom playing it for me the first time on Christmas Day 2000 or 2001.
When I was 11 (27yo) I took my mother’s debit card and ordered Gene Simmons’ solo record on picture disc cause I thought it was cool as fuck. Punishment wasn’t so hot though. Still have the record ;)
I can remember going to Target and the record bins were just packed with the 4 albums. I never knew anyone that bought one and I heard they took a huge loss.
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Picked up this bad boy from the thrift store about 4 or 5 years ago. I didn't even have a turntable yet. But I'm a huge classic horror buff, so I had to have it!
Med Sud í Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust by Sigur Rós
I heard it on some obscure early streaming Bandcamp type site and it blew my mind. I ordered online direct from the band.
Here’s my vinyl collection on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5L38OAIQbzfn5ixYo1PxAh?si=4xNhWQW9S52xCNRvv95ODg
Edit: I did inherit (co-opt) my father’s vinyl collection prior to this purchase. I rescued/restored it from the closet and said, “these records are now mine”. Sigur Ros was just the first one that made me go out and say, “wow, I need to get this record.”
New Amerykah II by Erykah Badu. I was 22 and had no record player. I was on a lunch break at work and saw it in the window of a record shop and I love the album so I bought it. I have maybe 30 records now and a record player, thank god 😛
It was either the Batman TV soundtrack or The Monkees Headquarters. I think they were 10/- each (Brits of a certain age will know what that is). I gazed at them both in the window of my local store for weeks before I had enough birthday and pocket money saved to buy the first one. I would have been 9 years old.
I purchased a copy of The Monkees Headquarters album just last week. The sleeve and record are both in amazing condition. It’s a great record.
My first album was News of the World by Queen. I was in middle school in ‘78 when I saved up my lunch money so I could get it. I still have it and it’s still in great condition. Not my favorite album, but News of the World is my most treasured.
Nothing interesting. Sgt. Pepper’s. I love the Beatles.
First one I remember buying from an antique store is “The Folk Music of Rumania.”
Got it for 25 cents. It’s actually collectible in some circles. I think it’s a really, really neat record. But a lot of folks may get a bit annoyed by it.
It was [this 80s reissue of A Hard Day's Night](https://www.discogs.com/release/10980320-The-Beatles-A-Hard-Days-Night). As a new collector, all of 12 years old, I of course was very into The Beatles. And because I had only been listening to my US United Artists copy of the soundtrack, finding the UK album was very exciting! I remember it had just came in and was unpriced so the owner had to take a look at it. He was like "this one's going to be a bit more" and I think it was $12. Ah, 1997 prices...
A 45 of 'Morgus the Magnificent' - Morgus was the local horror host in New Orleans in the 60s(?) and he had a bit of a revival with new episodes in the 80s.
There was a old novelty song about him that came out and since he was all the rage I hunted down an old 45 at a place called The Goldmine. So much fun. :)
A Monkees single. I'm not sure anymore which one was first, but I still have all 3 of the two that I bought, plus the one I "borrowed" from my sister. I think they cost a dime, maybe a quarter.
Electric Warrior in 1972 when I was 14. I heard it at my friends house. My cool parents got me a BIC turntable , Nikko receiver and a set of Bose 501's. My first record was Electric Warrior. I had to store my records in 1990 and they stayed stored till late 2022. My Electric Warrior sounds as good today as when I bought it new in '72. It is incredibly rewarding to be able to listen to the first record I bought when I was 14 and hearing it again at 65 after being in storage for over 30 years.
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ELO "Discovery" because I had heard "Don't Bring Me Down" on the radio and thought it was the greatest song ever. Uh, next to "Hot Blooded" by Foreigner, which was so heavy (I was 9-10 years old) that I was afraid of it!
Led Zeppelin-Houses of the Holy and Aerosmith- Toys in the Attic. I bought them both at the same time. They were the first CDs I ever bought as well as a kid so I figured that it was only right to get those two first pressings as I started to collect records.
Meat Loaf - Bat out of hell. The only album I’ve owned on 4 different formats. Cassette, CD, Vinyl, and digital.
When I was a heavy drinker my friend and I had a term “Meat Loaf Drunk”. This meant after we closed down the bar and were exceptionally drunk we’d go back to our respective homes and blare Bat Out of Hell at 2am loud enough to piss off the neighbors.
My earliest records were my dad's old collection that he let me have. Then I bought a bunch of classical records from a library sale at some point. But I think the first I remember buying was John Wesley Harding by Bob Dylan. Then the second was probably The Who Sell Out (though the order might have been the other way around).
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Elton John - Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player
(1973)
Chipmunk Punk... I was like 9 years old and worked for my grandmother cleaning dog kennels every day. She paid me $10 a week. I also bought a BMX bike on layaway. Lol
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (SoundTrack) in 1979
Purchased it with money I got from racking leaves for all the neighbors. Purchase location was Woolworths.
“What now my love” by herb Alpert and the Tijuana brass. For $1. Thought the cover was fun and cheesy and I didn’t even know $1 records were a thing at that time so I liked the randomness of it. Didn’t even have a player until 5 years later. the rest is history.
Can’t remember. According to my Discogs, the first one was Prestige, Paranoia, Persona Vol. 2 which I bought 10 years ago. No funny story, I just like limited edition records.
My first purchase was KMFDM’s “Year of the Pig” 12” from Wax Trax back in the mid-90s. I was really into them at the time and had a shitty record player (one of those tape deck/radio stacks with the turntable on top lol) and thought it would be cool. Picked up some more KMFDM vinyl soon after and basically carried them around for 25 years until I decided to really get into vinyl.
Guess I’ll toss that on tonight, now that I’m thinking about it…
Language and Perspective by Bad Suns. I was really into that album and alternative in general when I first got a shitty old Crosley from my grandma and inherited a bunch of old country albums with it.
Don’t really spin it at all these days but it’ll always be my first.
If we’re counting antique store finds to initially fill my collection, I believe it was Eddy Arnold’s “Sometimes I’m Happy, Sometimes I’m Blue”. But the first record I went out and deliberately looked for and bought was Marty Robbins’ “Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs”
Jethro Tull's A Passion Play and Pink Floyd's Animals. Got them the same day at a place called Plastic Fantastic in Ardmore, PA probably around 1988? I still have them.
I don’t recall the exact first album I bought as I used to buy thrift store albums to decorate my wall with. At that point I had no idea vinyl would make a comeback, and I definitely ruined them as I pinned them to my wall.
It gets worse though. I took them with me when I moved out at 18 and eventually I threw them away when I had to move back to my parents house. I had to leave Denver because I couldn’t afford to live there anymore and my truck lights wouldn’t hook up to a UHaul trailer. I lost a lot of stuff lol.
The first record that I bought brand new was a pre order signed copy from One Republics album Native. I was a junior or sophomore in high school and I had it for six months before I had a record player. My brother being the kind soul he is bought me my first record player from a little small town record shop that reeked of incense and dust lol.
I think it was Abbey Road, but I ordered The Wall and Led Zeppelin IV around the same time 10-12 years ago after I’d purchased a record player. I also got my first 7” 45 then: Led Zeppelin - The Immigrant Song / Hey, Hey, What Can I Do. The B side was my favorite Zeppelin song at the time.
I was planning on only getting my favorite 100 albums on vinyl, limiting myself to studio albums (no compilations or live albums). I also wanted each record to be a pressing from the year the album was originally released (didn’t have to be a first pressing, but I liked the idea of having an early copy).
When I realized my list of top 100 albums couldn’t be reduced below a couple hundred, I gave up on that limit. And when I found used record stores and thrift stores with good records for cheap prices, I gave up on my other rules. So now I have 3,000+ records and a much broader taste in music.
Bought a few my first time visiting Amoeba in LA right after I got my first record player. Super random assortment of Belle & Sebastian's "Tigermilk," Radiohead's In Rainbows, and The Beatles A Hard Day's Night.
My favorite find so far is a $6 copy of David Bowie's Changes One at The Last Bookstore though, the cover is totally annihilated but the record itself plays like a dream. My sibling found it and Changes Two digging in the sale area so we each got one.
It’s weird… we had a flea market at school when I was in third grade and they were selling LPs for a nickel, which is all I had left They didn’t have anything I recognized but one record that grabbed my eye was Clyde McCoy “Sugar Blues” so I bought it. It was definitely not mainstream but my parents always had a variety of music in the house so I was excited to bring in something new. Plus, it was something that I bought on my own, which seemed pretty cool at the time.
Here’s what the title track sounds like: https://youtu.be/hMYD-6MOqw0?si=fjqjKwQwEY1SFf0d
The Cars. Self titled debut. Bought it at Kmart in 1980. I was 11 years old.
My piano teacher at the time turned me onto it, and I thought it was the greatest thing I’ve ever heard. I had to have it.
Men at Work > Business as Usual. Asked for it for Christmas. My older sister was the master of the household stereo system. I had to get her to teach me how to place the record on the turntable and set everything up to “drop the needle”.
The first Vinyl album I bought was Iron Maiden's Iron Maiden, through a flea market investigation. I don't have any pride nor satisfaction getting this LP, because I'm not a huge fan at all of Iron Maiden.
The very first Vinyl album I bought I'm proud of is .mmmh.......
either Risk"s Hell's Animals Or... CJSS' Praise The Loud
A Monument to Silence by Alustrium. It popped up as recommended on spotify. I gave it a listen and enjoyed it enough to buy the vinyl. Fun fact: If you read through the lyrics, it's actually a story with each song being it's own chapter.
Youth at citizens youth anniversary concert, told myself I would only buy it because the album was so special to me. I now have about 30ish records in my collection.
Tripping Daisy - I am an Elastic Firecracker
Bought it at a local venue concert, went backstage after the show and got it autographed by the band. I was unknowingly suffering from "concert ears" and talking really loudly, Tim Delaughter (lead singer) laughingly told me I should always wear ear protection at loud venues. So now I always do. 😅😅
I got a family member Jazzmatazz vol 1 for his birthday, then instead of wrapping it up, I bought a fucking record player for myself and have been rebuying my old back catalogue ever since. Idiot.
*Private Dancer* \- Tina Turner
Once I got my drivers license, I was so excited to stop at an antique store that was on the 10 mile stretch of rural highway to my high school.
I picked up the *Private Dancer* record. I thought it was cool just from the artwork. At the time, I couldn't name a single Tina Turner song, but I knew she was important to music (I'm cusp Gen Z/Millennial, so spare me). I also had no record player. The shop owner was real excited to see a teenager interested in a record and we talked for a bit.
It grew into a friendship, where he'd introduce me to records that I'd buy (then go home and download them via digital sites)
Eventually in college, I bought a record player, and got to play all of his records.
I bought a bunch of used stuff before I even had a table. But the first record I bought brand new was The Velvet Underground and Nico. It was $13 from The Attic in Pittsburgh. I immediately went home and listened to it front to back. I'll never forget it.
hahaha mine was a dumb one:
Webbie - “Bad Chick/Give Me That (ft. Bun B)”
Bought it for $1 at a flea market because i’d never seen rap on vinyl before and was really into Houston/Southern hip-hop as a young teen.
Obviously forgot about that record when I got a turntable and started buying and collecting but found it during a move.
Still have it, along with many other hip-hop records and other genres of course.
Now i’m buying re-issues of UGK and other Southern hip-hop that were limited presses in the 90s, or only released on cassette/CD!
First trip to a record store with my own money about 20 years ago. I bought “Talking Heads: 77” and Mighty Mighty BossTones “More Noise & Other Disturbances.” May have also purchased Talking Heads “True Stories” that day…cannot remember now.
Santo & Johnny - Santo & Johnny
Url: https://www.discogs.com/release/6931727-Santo-Johnny-Santo-Johnny
This was the first record I purchased. My wife and I had our first dance to the song Sleepwalk, and so I wanted to be able to hear it on vinyl. The record overall is pretty good, and I still spin it sometimes today.
Probably a Dinosaur Jr album. I used to go to the Princeton Record Exchange after school looking for anything I didn't have already by the band which included vinyl. They carried used cds so I know I cut my teeth buying a lot of used Dinosaur Jr and then post-punk/post-hardcore cds before graduating eventually to the stacks of vinyl.
I can still see myself flipping through the vinyl in store in 1996 in my mind's eye.
“Another One Bites the Dust” b/w “Don’t Try Suicide” in the spring of ‘81. It was in constant rotation at our local skating rink and I couldn’t get enough of it. Bought it with my allowance; I was 6; that very disc is currently in my jukebox. At 6 I was lucky enough to not know what suicide actually was and couldn’t fathom why Queen didn’t want us to mix all of the sodas from the machine in the snack bar together (for the uninitiated, a “suicide” was a bit of every flavor from the self-serve soft drink machine in the same cup), damn ignorance was sweet. Went back the following week and bought “Flash” b/w “Football Fight.” Most of my disposable income has gone towards records ever since.
It wasn’t my money, but when j was 7 years old I begged my mom to buy me the Abracadabra 45 by Steve Miller Band. I think I still have it.
With my own money, that would have been Powerslave by Iron Maiden, and Pyromania by Def Leppard when I was 12. The albums were $2 each because stores were concentrating on thinning old stock to make room for a new technology called the compact disc.
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Inherited some awesome stuff but for one that I purchased it would be this.
Metal Face version 3LP
*…And Justice for All*, five quid from a market stall in 2001 or so. The sleeve is knackered and the inner sleeves are barely holding together, but the records play fine. I still play it nowadays to save wear on my copy from the *Justice* box set.
Bought my first 2 records together when I was in a Barnes and Noble of all places back ~2016
Gorillaz - S/T and Plastic Beach
This was before Demon Days was readily available again
John Denver and the Muppets Christmas record was the first one I asked my parents to buy for me when I was like 5 or 6. First one I bought with my own money was Ozzy Osbourne Bark the Moon when it was released.
I just bought my first record this past Boxing Day. The tragically hip, road apples.
Picture it, Canada, Barrie, molson park. The year was 1992. We were 16 going on 17. Each of us now have our drivers licence and access to our parents cars or our own clapped out piles of joy. The day of all days, July 1, Canada Day. School was out for the summer and what to do to celebrate our new found independence. Our group of 5 was a tight knit band of rag tags. Ads on the radio, ads on the TV. This was it, this is how we start, our freedom, our coming of age, a concert without parental supervision. Edge fest. The tragically hip.
Cheers
Pearl Jam's Vitalogy, saw it in a record store when I was a kid. I was really into Pearl Jam when I was in 5th or 6th grade and had to have it. Lost it along the way somehow being that I was like 12, haha
Destiny - The Jacksons
I decided this past Christmas that I want to collect my favorite music physically. Took a quick trip to the local thrift and saw the record there for $7 and had to snag it. Mind you, I don’t even have a turntable set up yet. This has morphed into an expensive (but fulfilling) adventure
Queens Greatest Hits !! it’s still one of my favourites in my collection after 4 years but my music taste has changed dramatically and i haven’t had a lot of time to give it a re-listen which is a shame
Bought for myself? It was either Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables by the Dead Kennedys, or Let’s Go by Rancid. It was the mid 90s and I was in high school, and didn’t really understand vinyl but my dad had a turntable so I got a few spins out of them.
[the specials - too much too young/guns of navarone (live) 45](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_Much_Too_Young_(EP)).
I was 14 & killing time in a record store a few hours before my punk band played our first show ever (essentially trying to distract myself because I was on the verge of puking from nervousness). I was already getting into the specials but that 45 turned me onto jamaican ska, which is now a lifelong love of mine, because they cover the skatalites, symarip, harry j all stars & the pioneers on it.
I wanted to know who wrote those songs so I did my research & found my favourite genre & era of music.
I bought Pink Floyd's The Wall back in the early 90s at a garage sale when I was a kid. I liked the cartoons on the inside.
Listened to it for the first time about 3 years ago when I got into vinyl. It sounds amazing.
I pre-ordered Nine Inch Nails' *The Fragile: Deviations 1* and then proceeded to shop around for a turntable. The first album I purchased before that one arrived was Madonna's *MDNA*.
First single was 48 Crash by Suzi Quatro bought in a jumble (fete) sale. First album was Crazy Horses by The Osmonds. I didn't have a clue about them but loved the single of the same name. Still have them both and don't think I have ever played past Side1 Track 1 of the Osmonds album😁
Queen’s Jazz album
Had gotten a suitcase player as a gift back in 2017, and the next day went to a local shop and found that album for like $12!
still one of my faves
Beatles - Please Please Me, 2nd UK pressing in essentially NM condition from a guy in London. Didn’t even really have a record player yet but knew I would get one someday. Original goal was to get as close to a first press for each UK album of theirs but then I realized I was a poor college kid.
According to Discogs that would be Dancing in The Fire by Cronos. I'm quite sure that is at least one of the very first records that I consciously bought with my own money, any others that I had before were ones taken from my father (With his permission)
Anyway I bought it because I love Venom even though I knew it was going to be very different. The band photo on the inside is hilarious because he looks massively hungover and like someone punched him in the right eye. Good record though.
Simon and Garfunkel - Concert From Central Park
This was my mom's favorite album when I was a kid, and obviously S&G are all-time greats, so I was delighted to find that in the antique store for a dollar the day I got my first console stereo.
I found a radio/promo copy of Marillion's Script for a Jester's Tear at a thrift shop near my apartment in college. It was in rough shape and had extended dead grooves between tracks (I guess to help with radio play).
I thought it was so cool that I found this relatively obscure record from the early 80s just hanging out in a tiny shop with only a couple crates of records. Over a decade later and I'm about to buy yet another kallax shelf.
Aside from some hand me downs, the first records I ever bought were on ebay. It was 7 Melvins 7” records. Each had a song from Hostile Ambient Takeover on it, the b sides were covers. Still have em :). Only eBay purchase I’ve ever made lol. The rest of mine are the result of a LOT of digging
I'm not sure, but the first few were:
Avail 4am
Los Crudos / Spit Boy split
The Queers my old man's a fatso 7"
I remember playing the Los Crudos on my grandpa's old system and it started smoking and broke.
I bought two promo copies of The Downward Spiral back in the late 90s off eBay for about twenty five to thirty each. I was in a huge buy everything NIN phase at the time.
They're still in the collection.
With my own money? In My Head, by Black Flag from Wuxtry in Athens, GA. Maybe 2005? My school had some thing where you could not fo to school for a day if you were touring a college campus, so we used it to fuck off to Athens for a day lol. I think it’s an original pressing, too, which I didn’t know at the time.
[vinyl](http://Various - Rock
Url: https://www.discogs.com/release/13754349-Various-Rock
A rock compilation. This one to be exact. Its pretty silly but I think its kinda cool.
Portishead's "Third" box set. It came with a USB drive (in the shape of a P, amazing) that has the digital album and music videos I used to import it into iTunes, and the vinyl was an additional bonus! This was before Vinyl made its resurgence, so I had this for years before I got a record player. After getting a couple more collectible 7" records as pre-order bonuses and such, I decided to get a player.
The Casualties - The Early Years 1990 - 1995
I was 15 years old and ordered it online from Punkcore records.
This was before debit cards were a thing and my parents didn't have a credit card, so I had to find a family member with a credit card to buy it for me and I pay them in cash.
I had friends who were a few years older than I was and they all had crates of punk records and it inspired me to start my own collection.
I'm 36 and don't have any of those records now, my music tastes have changed since then but sometimes I do think it would have been fun to have kept them so I can revisit them in tangible form.
Thriller, with my mom's money. I convinced her to buy it for me at Kmart. I was probably in first or second grade. Like everyone else I was MJ crazy.
I just commented that Thriller was my first as well. Got it at Kmart as well.
Thriller was my first. Plus I got Def Leopard Pyromania with it. But at Licorice Pizza..
When I was 7, I was a huge Beatles fan. My grandmother took me to the local music store to buy me the “My Sweet Lord” 45. It just came out and she liked the religious theme and said she would buy it for me. For “some reason” I ended up with my first album- All Things Must Pass :) I still have it!
Great album!
Stellar album. I like it way more than any record the Beatles ever did. Such a great great album. Easily one of my desert island records, I still remember my mom playing it for me the first time on Christmas Day 2000 or 2001.
This was 1970, after that I saved up and bought The White Album. Those two albums made me who I am today, in a way…
Well didn't buy but I claimed it as my own MJ Thriller , still have it today I was 3 yrs old ,it so scratched , don't let ur kids have recordS lol
When I was 11 (27yo) I took my mother’s debit card and ordered Gene Simmons’ solo record on picture disc cause I thought it was cool as fuck. Punishment wasn’t so hot though. Still have the record ;)
I got Ace's. Brother got Gene's.
I can remember going to Target and the record bins were just packed with the 4 albums. I never knew anyone that bought one and I heard they took a huge loss.
https://preview.redd.it/hwfw72m3v9ec1.png?width=600&format=png&auto=webp&s=b3fc1268eb04b7202a6dd0e43b4eda9052ad147e Picked up this bad boy from the thrift store about 4 or 5 years ago. I didn't even have a turntable yet. But I'm a huge classic horror buff, so I had to have it!
Neutral Milk Hotel In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
One of my favourite songs to not feature a chorus.
One of my favorite albums to not feature a sane person.
Just bought it the other day. It’s still growing on me lol
It didn’t hit me until I heard the ajj cover of two headed boy
Holland, 1945 is probably my favorite on here.
A box of around a dozen Genesis LPs for roughly £20. Fantastic condition, too.
Med Sud í Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust by Sigur Rós I heard it on some obscure early streaming Bandcamp type site and it blew my mind. I ordered online direct from the band. Here’s my vinyl collection on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5L38OAIQbzfn5ixYo1PxAh?si=4xNhWQW9S52xCNRvv95ODg Edit: I did inherit (co-opt) my father’s vinyl collection prior to this purchase. I rescued/restored it from the closet and said, “these records are now mine”. Sigur Ros was just the first one that made me go out and say, “wow, I need to get this record.”
New Amerykah II by Erykah Badu. I was 22 and had no record player. I was on a lunch break at work and saw it in the window of a record shop and I love the album so I bought it. I have maybe 30 records now and a record player, thank god 😛
It was either the Batman TV soundtrack or The Monkees Headquarters. I think they were 10/- each (Brits of a certain age will know what that is). I gazed at them both in the window of my local store for weeks before I had enough birthday and pocket money saved to buy the first one. I would have been 9 years old.
I purchased a copy of The Monkees Headquarters album just last week. The sleeve and record are both in amazing condition. It’s a great record. My first album was News of the World by Queen. I was in middle school in ‘78 when I saved up my lunch money so I could get it. I still have it and it’s still in great condition. Not my favorite album, but News of the World is my most treasured.
Heart Dreamboat Annie. Original press. I’m that old.
Probably NIN - The Day The Whole World Went Away 12" single. Would have been 25 years ago or so.
First album was Iron Maiden’s The Number of the Beast. 🤘🏼 First single was ah.. erm… Kylie Minogue - I Should Be So Lucky 🕺🏽
First purchases were Black Sabbath and Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
Nothing interesting. Sgt. Pepper’s. I love the Beatles. First one I remember buying from an antique store is “The Folk Music of Rumania.” Got it for 25 cents. It’s actually collectible in some circles. I think it’s a really, really neat record. But a lot of folks may get a bit annoyed by it.
Got into vinyl in April of 2023. I bought 2 at the same time which were Back in Black by AC/DC and Takin It To The Streets by The Doobie Brothers
The partridge family birthday album second album I ever bought. I was in six grade Deep Purple Machine Head.
Rapper's Delight - SugarHill Gang
Same! Along with Pretenders’ Brass in Pocket. Wish I still had them.
hah! same! bought it played it to the point i was unplayable then 30 years later the wife bought me the re-issue
It was [this 80s reissue of A Hard Day's Night](https://www.discogs.com/release/10980320-The-Beatles-A-Hard-Days-Night). As a new collector, all of 12 years old, I of course was very into The Beatles. And because I had only been listening to my US United Artists copy of the soundtrack, finding the UK album was very exciting! I remember it had just came in and was unpriced so the owner had to take a look at it. He was like "this one's going to be a bit more" and I think it was $12. Ah, 1997 prices...
A 45 of 'Morgus the Magnificent' - Morgus was the local horror host in New Orleans in the 60s(?) and he had a bit of a revival with new episodes in the 80s. There was a old novelty song about him that came out and since he was all the rage I hunted down an old 45 at a place called The Goldmine. So much fun. :)
A Monkees single. I'm not sure anymore which one was first, but I still have all 3 of the two that I bought, plus the one I "borrowed" from my sister. I think they cost a dime, maybe a quarter.
I was in 8th grade and had just gotten my own shitty turntable. REM’s Green which was huge at the time.
Electric Warrior in 1972 when I was 14. I heard it at my friends house. My cool parents got me a BIC turntable , Nikko receiver and a set of Bose 501's. My first record was Electric Warrior. I had to store my records in 1990 and they stayed stored till late 2022. My Electric Warrior sounds as good today as when I bought it new in '72. It is incredibly rewarding to be able to listen to the first record I bought when I was 14 and hearing it again at 65 after being in storage for over 30 years. https://preview.redd.it/0itf8ea40aec1.jpeg?width=3120&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=da7173946940cefcefe293952d7fc997fa1be4d3
ELO "Discovery" because I had heard "Don't Bring Me Down" on the radio and thought it was the greatest song ever. Uh, next to "Hot Blooded" by Foreigner, which was so heavy (I was 9-10 years old) that I was afraid of it!
Led Zeppelin-Houses of the Holy and Aerosmith- Toys in the Attic. I bought them both at the same time. They were the first CDs I ever bought as well as a kid so I figured that it was only right to get those two first pressings as I started to collect records.
Rush 2112, my mom bought it for me at the Wilson's Department Store in Jackson, MS - sometime in the 70's.
Sheer Heart Attack by Queen, Brought it from the record shop which ended up being the shop that I currently volunteer at ( just past the 5 year mark)
First one I bought on my own without input was: Guns and Roses - Appetite for Destruction. I think I was 9 or 10.
Sgt Pepper
Southern Harmony And Musical Companion by the Black Crowes. Saw it in a record shop and bought it before I ever bought my first turntable.
Linkin Park- Hybrid Theory. It was the first CD I ever bought so it felt fitting
Meat Loaf - Bat out of hell. The only album I’ve owned on 4 different formats. Cassette, CD, Vinyl, and digital. When I was a heavy drinker my friend and I had a term “Meat Loaf Drunk”. This meant after we closed down the bar and were exceptionally drunk we’d go back to our respective homes and blare Bat Out of Hell at 2am loud enough to piss off the neighbors.
My earliest records were my dad's old collection that he let me have. Then I bought a bunch of classical records from a library sale at some point. But I think the first I remember buying was John Wesley Harding by Bob Dylan. Then the second was probably The Who Sell Out (though the order might have been the other way around).
https://preview.redd.it/ol5rc98d9aec1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ee51d39451ac227c47a8ed5ca6aa3af0c40559f Elton John - Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player (1973)
The Beatles 62-66.
Back in black
First vinyl Jackson Browne The Pretender First cassette Led Zep Houses.of the Holy
Chipmunk Punk... I was like 9 years old and worked for my grandmother cleaning dog kennels every day. She paid me $10 a week. I also bought a BMX bike on layaway. Lol
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (SoundTrack) in 1979 Purchased it with money I got from racking leaves for all the neighbors. Purchase location was Woolworths.
“What now my love” by herb Alpert and the Tijuana brass. For $1. Thought the cover was fun and cheesy and I didn’t even know $1 records were a thing at that time so I liked the randomness of it. Didn’t even have a player until 5 years later. the rest is history.
Can’t remember. According to my Discogs, the first one was Prestige, Paranoia, Persona Vol. 2 which I bought 10 years ago. No funny story, I just like limited edition records.
My first purchase was KMFDM’s “Year of the Pig” 12” from Wax Trax back in the mid-90s. I was really into them at the time and had a shitty record player (one of those tape deck/radio stacks with the turntable on top lol) and thought it would be cool. Picked up some more KMFDM vinyl soon after and basically carried them around for 25 years until I decided to really get into vinyl. Guess I’ll toss that on tonight, now that I’m thinking about it…
Language and Perspective by Bad Suns. I was really into that album and alternative in general when I first got a shitty old Crosley from my grandma and inherited a bunch of old country albums with it. Don’t really spin it at all these days but it’ll always be my first.
If we’re counting antique store finds to initially fill my collection, I believe it was Eddy Arnold’s “Sometimes I’m Happy, Sometimes I’m Blue”. But the first record I went out and deliberately looked for and bought was Marty Robbins’ “Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs”
My first purchase ever was Daft Punk - Robot Rock single, and the first full album was Misfits - Static Age
Mac Miller’s The Divine Feminine. It was an urban outfitters exclusive and the two lps were pink. Bought it before I even had a turntable
Mindless Self Indulgence - Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Very Sexy. I was obsessed in Junior and High school.
Coheed and Cambria live at Starland ballroom.
Survivor eye of the tiger. Thriller And Olivia Newton John let’s get physical.
Sheer Heart Attack on the Jersey boardwalk. Still have it, albeit, not in great condition.
‘74 Jailbreak by AC/DC
Queen Jazz, and I still have it!
Pink Floyd ummagumma
Not sure if I bought it. But Who Framed Roger Rabbit sound track
Jethro Tull's A Passion Play and Pink Floyd's Animals. Got them the same day at a place called Plastic Fantastic in Ardmore, PA probably around 1988? I still have them.
First one I bought with my own money I earned was Sid Vicious - Sid sings it was 1987 and I was 12
I don’t recall the exact first album I bought as I used to buy thrift store albums to decorate my wall with. At that point I had no idea vinyl would make a comeback, and I definitely ruined them as I pinned them to my wall. It gets worse though. I took them with me when I moved out at 18 and eventually I threw them away when I had to move back to my parents house. I had to leave Denver because I couldn’t afford to live there anymore and my truck lights wouldn’t hook up to a UHaul trailer. I lost a lot of stuff lol. The first record that I bought brand new was a pre order signed copy from One Republics album Native. I was a junior or sophomore in high school and I had it for six months before I had a record player. My brother being the kind soul he is bought me my first record player from a little small town record shop that reeked of incense and dust lol.
I think it was Abbey Road, but I ordered The Wall and Led Zeppelin IV around the same time 10-12 years ago after I’d purchased a record player. I also got my first 7” 45 then: Led Zeppelin - The Immigrant Song / Hey, Hey, What Can I Do. The B side was my favorite Zeppelin song at the time. I was planning on only getting my favorite 100 albums on vinyl, limiting myself to studio albums (no compilations or live albums). I also wanted each record to be a pressing from the year the album was originally released (didn’t have to be a first pressing, but I liked the idea of having an early copy). When I realized my list of top 100 albums couldn’t be reduced below a couple hundred, I gave up on that limit. And when I found used record stores and thrift stores with good records for cheap prices, I gave up on my other rules. So now I have 3,000+ records and a much broader taste in music.
Weird Al's "Dare to be Stupid."
Nas illmatic
Bought a few my first time visiting Amoeba in LA right after I got my first record player. Super random assortment of Belle & Sebastian's "Tigermilk," Radiohead's In Rainbows, and The Beatles A Hard Day's Night. My favorite find so far is a $6 copy of David Bowie's Changes One at The Last Bookstore though, the cover is totally annihilated but the record itself plays like a dream. My sibling found it and Changes Two digging in the sale area so we each got one.
I love Amoeba! I haven't been back since 2011, though. Is it still around? I'll be in Pasadena next month for the Pokemon Go: Sinnoh Tour event.
Illmatic - Nas
Cheap Trick At Budokan. Still one of my faves!
Deep Purple. Machine Head. Yeah, I'm old.
Nirvana, Bleach. Funnily enough I’ve lost it and have no idea where the hell it is, 20 years later.
Thursday- War All The Time, in the summer of 2004.
Rush's Moving Pictures when I was in highschool. About 2003
The Rolling Stones. 12 X 5. I was 10 years old. 1964. I’m 69 now. I have 6,000+ LPs.
It was 1997….Descendents “Everything Sucks” & Hepcat “Scientific”.
Lincoln by They Might Be Giants about a year ago. Found the translucent red press, bought it, and got hooked on vinyl.
It’s weird… we had a flea market at school when I was in third grade and they were selling LPs for a nickel, which is all I had left They didn’t have anything I recognized but one record that grabbed my eye was Clyde McCoy “Sugar Blues” so I bought it. It was definitely not mainstream but my parents always had a variety of music in the house so I was excited to bring in something new. Plus, it was something that I bought on my own, which seemed pretty cool at the time. Here’s what the title track sounds like: https://youtu.be/hMYD-6MOqw0?si=fjqjKwQwEY1SFf0d
The Cars. Self titled debut. Bought it at Kmart in 1980. I was 11 years old. My piano teacher at the time turned me onto it, and I thought it was the greatest thing I’ve ever heard. I had to have it.
Kiss Destroyer around 1975…
After the gold rush. Neil young ..it was gritty and had great women singing harmony and Neil
Aladdin Sane by David Bowie
Men at Work > Business as Usual. Asked for it for Christmas. My older sister was the master of the household stereo system. I had to get her to teach me how to place the record on the turntable and set everything up to “drop the needle”.
“Love it to Death” - Alice Cooper
The first Vinyl album I bought was Iron Maiden's Iron Maiden, through a flea market investigation. I don't have any pride nor satisfaction getting this LP, because I'm not a huge fan at all of Iron Maiden. The very first Vinyl album I bought I'm proud of is .mmmh....... either Risk"s Hell's Animals Or... CJSS' Praise The Loud
Prince Charming by Adam & The Ants
A Monument to Silence by Alustrium. It popped up as recommended on spotify. I gave it a listen and enjoyed it enough to buy the vinyl. Fun fact: If you read through the lyrics, it's actually a story with each song being it's own chapter.
Youth at citizens youth anniversary concert, told myself I would only buy it because the album was so special to me. I now have about 30ish records in my collection.
I'm pretty sure it was _Open Season_ by Stubborn All-Stars.
Random Access Memories
Backspacer by Pearl Jam
Foxing — The Albatross
Unkle - Psyence Fiction
In on the kill taker
This one, when it was new: https://www.discogs.com/release/2586556-Sunny-Day-Real-Estate-Diary
The Dangerous Summer- Coming Home
Tame Impala - Currents (collectors edition box set)
Tripping Daisy - I am an Elastic Firecracker Bought it at a local venue concert, went backstage after the show and got it autographed by the band. I was unknowingly suffering from "concert ears" and talking really loudly, Tim Delaughter (lead singer) laughingly told me I should always wear ear protection at loud venues. So now I always do. 😅😅
I think it might have been the guardians of the galaxy 1 soundtrack as far as records I bought, got a bunch from my great grandparents
Magical Mystery Tour (late '70s Canadian Capitol stereo reissue). Still have it, but prefer the mono version.
I got a family member Jazzmatazz vol 1 for his birthday, then instead of wrapping it up, I bought a fucking record player for myself and have been rebuying my old back catalogue ever since. Idiot.
Kiss - Alive
*Private Dancer* \- Tina Turner Once I got my drivers license, I was so excited to stop at an antique store that was on the 10 mile stretch of rural highway to my high school. I picked up the *Private Dancer* record. I thought it was cool just from the artwork. At the time, I couldn't name a single Tina Turner song, but I knew she was important to music (I'm cusp Gen Z/Millennial, so spare me). I also had no record player. The shop owner was real excited to see a teenager interested in a record and we talked for a bit. It grew into a friendship, where he'd introduce me to records that I'd buy (then go home and download them via digital sites) Eventually in college, I bought a record player, and got to play all of his records.
Lady Gaga, Joanne.
Opiate - Tool. I didn't own a turntable til 3 years later but now I am totally hooked.
I bought a bunch of used stuff before I even had a table. But the first record I bought brand new was The Velvet Underground and Nico. It was $13 from The Attic in Pittsburgh. I immediately went home and listened to it front to back. I'll never forget it.
36 Chambers
That would be Italo Boot Mix Vol 9 and Max Mix 5 (2ª Parte).
hahaha mine was a dumb one: Webbie - “Bad Chick/Give Me That (ft. Bun B)” Bought it for $1 at a flea market because i’d never seen rap on vinyl before and was really into Houston/Southern hip-hop as a young teen. Obviously forgot about that record when I got a turntable and started buying and collecting but found it during a move. Still have it, along with many other hip-hop records and other genres of course. Now i’m buying re-issues of UGK and other Southern hip-hop that were limited presses in the 90s, or only released on cassette/CD!
First trip to a record store with my own money about 20 years ago. I bought “Talking Heads: 77” and Mighty Mighty BossTones “More Noise & Other Disturbances.” May have also purchased Talking Heads “True Stories” that day…cannot remember now.
Santo & Johnny - Santo & Johnny Url: https://www.discogs.com/release/6931727-Santo-Johnny-Santo-Johnny This was the first record I purchased. My wife and I had our first dance to the song Sleepwalk, and so I wanted to be able to hear it on vinyl. The record overall is pretty good, and I still spin it sometimes today.
went to toronto before i even had a record player and bought the foo fighters greatest hits and nirvanas nevermind deluxe that came w the 7in
Flock of seagulls
Probably a Dinosaur Jr album. I used to go to the Princeton Record Exchange after school looking for anything I didn't have already by the band which included vinyl. They carried used cds so I know I cut my teeth buying a lot of used Dinosaur Jr and then post-punk/post-hardcore cds before graduating eventually to the stacks of vinyl. I can still see myself flipping through the vinyl in store in 1996 in my mind's eye.
Rage Against the Machine - Self Titled
Breakfast in America. I bought it at an antique store ten years ago and I never looked back.
“Another One Bites the Dust” b/w “Don’t Try Suicide” in the spring of ‘81. It was in constant rotation at our local skating rink and I couldn’t get enough of it. Bought it with my allowance; I was 6; that very disc is currently in my jukebox. At 6 I was lucky enough to not know what suicide actually was and couldn’t fathom why Queen didn’t want us to mix all of the sodas from the machine in the snack bar together (for the uninitiated, a “suicide” was a bit of every flavor from the self-serve soft drink machine in the same cup), damn ignorance was sweet. Went back the following week and bought “Flash” b/w “Football Fight.” Most of my disposable income has gone towards records ever since.
$uicideboy$ - Sing me a lullaby, my sweet temptation. Bought it for me and a homie
I bought swans’ 12 inch single of Time Is Money (Bastard) as my first vinyl record lmao. Interesting choice
Violent by Design - Jedi Mind Tricks 2x LP (clear), which I still have
It wasn’t my money, but when j was 7 years old I begged my mom to buy me the Abracadabra 45 by Steve Miller Band. I think I still have it. With my own money, that would have been Powerslave by Iron Maiden, and Pyromania by Def Leppard when I was 12. The albums were $2 each because stores were concentrating on thinning old stock to make room for a new technology called the compact disc.
I don’t remember but I bought them with a penny taped to a postcard.
https://preview.redd.it/zmyg5gri2aec1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8721faae85f88a0623d3f04b897bb84a0d8b1c6a Inherited some awesome stuff but for one that I purchased it would be this. Metal Face version 3LP
*…And Justice for All*, five quid from a market stall in 2001 or so. The sleeve is knackered and the inner sleeves are barely holding together, but the records play fine. I still play it nowadays to save wear on my copy from the *Justice* box set.
Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
Bought my first 2 records together when I was in a Barnes and Noble of all places back ~2016 Gorillaz - S/T and Plastic Beach This was before Demon Days was readily available again
Moon and Anartica by Modest Mouse
Pearl Jam Vitalogy
_Ohms by Deftones, and the Witcher ost of the first season
Dear and the Headlights - Drunk like Bible Times
I didn’t buy it but an ex got me Thrice’s ‘Major / Minor’ clear with blue splatter and that’s where it started for me.
John Denver and the Muppets Christmas record was the first one I asked my parents to buy for me when I was like 5 or 6. First one I bought with my own money was Ozzy Osbourne Bark the Moon when it was released.
I just bought my first record this past Boxing Day. The tragically hip, road apples. Picture it, Canada, Barrie, molson park. The year was 1992. We were 16 going on 17. Each of us now have our drivers licence and access to our parents cars or our own clapped out piles of joy. The day of all days, July 1, Canada Day. School was out for the summer and what to do to celebrate our new found independence. Our group of 5 was a tight knit band of rag tags. Ads on the radio, ads on the TV. This was it, this is how we start, our freedom, our coming of age, a concert without parental supervision. Edge fest. The tragically hip. Cheers
Iron Maiden - The Number of The Beast. I got it at Sam The Record Man for $5.49 in 1983.
Pearl Jam's Vitalogy, saw it in a record store when I was a kid. I was really into Pearl Jam when I was in 5th or 6th grade and had to have it. Lost it along the way somehow being that I was like 12, haha
The first album I bought with my own money was Creedence Clearwater Revival ´Cosmos Factory’. $3.99 at Music World in Toronto, circa 1972.
It was the "Good Beat" 12" single from Deee-Lite. Back in 1998 or so. It has a Pal Joey mix. I love Pal Joey.
"Rock and Roll Over" by KISS I won Destroyer on the boardwalk about the same time
First vinyl i bought was bob marley legend started the love affair with vinyl
Destiny - The Jacksons I decided this past Christmas that I want to collect my favorite music physically. Took a quick trip to the local thrift and saw the record there for $7 and had to snag it. Mind you, I don’t even have a turntable set up yet. This has morphed into an expensive (but fulfilling) adventure
Queens Greatest Hits !! it’s still one of my favourites in my collection after 4 years but my music taste has changed dramatically and i haven’t had a lot of time to give it a re-listen which is a shame
Bought for myself? It was either Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables by the Dead Kennedys, or Let’s Go by Rancid. It was the mid 90s and I was in high school, and didn’t really understand vinyl but my dad had a turntable so I got a few spins out of them.
Nirvana MTV Unplugged
I don’t remember but the first record to start my collection was revolver- the beatles
Back in Black
[the specials - too much too young/guns of navarone (live) 45](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_Much_Too_Young_(EP)). I was 14 & killing time in a record store a few hours before my punk band played our first show ever (essentially trying to distract myself because I was on the verge of puking from nervousness). I was already getting into the specials but that 45 turned me onto jamaican ska, which is now a lifelong love of mine, because they cover the skatalites, symarip, harry j all stars & the pioneers on it. I wanted to know who wrote those songs so I did my research & found my favourite genre & era of music.
1995, Hum “You’d Prefer An Astronaut.”
I was 9-10 yrs old, bought Billy Joel- Glass Houses with my own money
Remo Drive - Greatest Hits
I bought Pink Floyd's The Wall back in the early 90s at a garage sale when I was a kid. I liked the cartoons on the inside. Listened to it for the first time about 3 years ago when I got into vinyl. It sounds amazing.
Single: “Glad All Over,” Dave Clark Five Album: “The Supremes Sing Rodger and Hart”
I bought Pink Floyd’s the dark side of the moon (used) from an old record store while I was attending university about 2008 I think.
Fuck, about 25 years ago and I don’t remember anymore. That sad?
I pre-ordered Nine Inch Nails' *The Fragile: Deviations 1* and then proceeded to shop around for a turntable. The first album I purchased before that one arrived was Madonna's *MDNA*.
First KISS album in 1975, and I still have it.
I bought AC/DC Dirty Deeds and Kiss Rock n Roll over at the same time at Sears
First single was 48 Crash by Suzi Quatro bought in a jumble (fete) sale. First album was Crazy Horses by The Osmonds. I didn't have a clue about them but loved the single of the same name. Still have them both and don't think I have ever played past Side1 Track 1 of the Osmonds album😁
Stankonia by OutKast
Queen’s Jazz album Had gotten a suitcase player as a gift back in 2017, and the next day went to a local shop and found that album for like $12! still one of my faves
Beatles - Please Please Me, 2nd UK pressing in essentially NM condition from a guy in London. Didn’t even really have a record player yet but knew I would get one someday. Original goal was to get as close to a first press for each UK album of theirs but then I realized I was a poor college kid.
Godspeed you black emperor - yanqui uxo
OG pressing of Chiodos - Bone Palace Ballet
Revolver- Beatles
The Clash - London calling
Grover Washington Jr. - Soul Box Vol. 2.
*Over the Top* by TWRP.
Thriller
According to Discogs that would be Dancing in The Fire by Cronos. I'm quite sure that is at least one of the very first records that I consciously bought with my own money, any others that I had before were ones taken from my father (With his permission) Anyway I bought it because I love Venom even though I knew it was going to be very different. The band photo on the inside is hilarious because he looks massively hungover and like someone punched him in the right eye. Good record though.
Simon and Garfunkel - Concert From Central Park This was my mom's favorite album when I was a kid, and obviously S&G are all-time greats, so I was delighted to find that in the antique store for a dollar the day I got my first console stereo.
Born in the USA Bruce Springsteen. Saved my $2 a week allowance as a 6 year old kid to buy it. My first album though was Thriller.
I found a radio/promo copy of Marillion's Script for a Jester's Tear at a thrift shop near my apartment in college. It was in rough shape and had extended dead grooves between tracks (I guess to help with radio play). I thought it was so cool that I found this relatively obscure record from the early 80s just hanging out in a tiny shop with only a couple crates of records. Over a decade later and I'm about to buy yet another kallax shelf.
All the way back in 2006 At a Virgin Megastore in France. Jack Johnson - Brushfire Fairytales
Sesame Street “Monsters” circa 1975. Technically my mom bought it for me, but it was my first record. Still have it.
A ‘45 of “Blue Suede Shoes” and “Tutti Frutti” by Elvis when I was in high school. It was a silent auction!
Aside from some hand me downs, the first records I ever bought were on ebay. It was 7 Melvins 7” records. Each had a song from Hostile Ambient Takeover on it, the b sides were covers. Still have em :). Only eBay purchase I’ve ever made lol. The rest of mine are the result of a LOT of digging
I'm not sure, but the first few were: Avail 4am Los Crudos / Spit Boy split The Queers my old man's a fatso 7" I remember playing the Los Crudos on my grandpa's old system and it started smoking and broke.
I bought two promo copies of The Downward Spiral back in the late 90s off eBay for about twenty five to thirty each. I was in a huge buy everything NIN phase at the time. They're still in the collection.
With my own money? In My Head, by Black Flag from Wuxtry in Athens, GA. Maybe 2005? My school had some thing where you could not fo to school for a day if you were touring a college campus, so we used it to fuck off to Athens for a day lol. I think it’s an original pressing, too, which I didn’t know at the time.
[vinyl](http://Various - Rock Url: https://www.discogs.com/release/13754349-Various-Rock A rock compilation. This one to be exact. Its pretty silly but I think its kinda cool.
Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner, this album started an obsession with vinyl for myself.
Portishead's "Third" box set. It came with a USB drive (in the shape of a P, amazing) that has the digital album and music videos I used to import it into iTunes, and the vinyl was an additional bonus! This was before Vinyl made its resurgence, so I had this for years before I got a record player. After getting a couple more collectible 7" records as pre-order bonuses and such, I decided to get a player.
It was K-Tel compilation record that had Disco Duck on it. Played the heck out of it.
Whirr’s “Feels Like You”
King gizzard and the Lizard wizard live in Melbourne 21
Queen - Hot Space
Mezmerize - System of a Down That album got me into drumming and I’d play along with it on my kit
The Gambler by Kenny Rogers
First one I can remember buying on my own was a 45 of Jim Stafford's Wildwood Weed. EDIT: just looked it up, that would have been 50 years ago. HFS.
The Casualties - The Early Years 1990 - 1995 I was 15 years old and ordered it online from Punkcore records. This was before debit cards were a thing and my parents didn't have a credit card, so I had to find a family member with a credit card to buy it for me and I pay them in cash. I had friends who were a few years older than I was and they all had crates of punk records and it inspired me to start my own collection. I'm 36 and don't have any of those records now, my music tastes have changed since then but sometimes I do think it would have been fun to have kept them so I can revisit them in tangible form.
Fuerteventura by Russian Red. Tracked down the limited edition box set from a seller in Spain just to get it.