First Album/8-Track/Cassette/CD you bought with your own money.

[funKYcat75]

First cassette was either Licensed to Ill or Cloud Nine by George Harrison.

First CD was The Incredible Base by Rob Base.

Record Bar in Turfland Mall (RIP) was the place to be.

Too young and/or not hipster enough to have bought any vinyl or 8-tracks.

 

[AustinTXCat]

First 8-track:

First CD:

Can't remember first cassette purchase.

 

[UnfrozenCatfanLawyer]

Also “Licensed to Ill,” but my cousin had to buy it because I wasn’t old enough.

 

[electricdreammachine]

First tape, Belinda Carlisle - Heaven on Earth. Not proud of it.

 

[J_Dee]

First cassette: Licensed to Ill. I think I bought it on vacation in Tennessee, but I don't remember.
First CDs: MC Hammer's Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em and Metallica's Black Album, both in the fall of '91 from the local K-Mart.

Too young for 8-tracks. No idea what my first record was, but the oldest ones I still have are all five Gremlins movie records from Hardee's.

 

[cole854]

First albums - Night Moves and KISS Alive in 76ish.

 

[Kooky Kats]

First Album: Beatles Live at Hollywood Bowl
First Cassette: U2 Boy
First CD: Little Feat Feats Don’t Fail Me Now

 

[Blueisbest]

First album was probably either Elton John's greatest hits vol. 1 or Three Dog Night Captured Live at the Forum.

 

[anthonys735]

Boyz II Men - Cooleyhighharmony
DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince - Homebase

 

[Sawnee Cat]

First vinyl album. 1956

First CD

 

[funKYcat75]

First tape, Belinda Carlisle - Heaven on Earth. Not proud of it.

Hey. I get it.

 

[Mossip]

 

[jameslee32]

 

[WildcatFan1982]

First cd I remember getting was Kriss Kross - totally krossed out. Don’t remember if I paid for it or not. I was in 4th grade. I do remember cashing my first paycheck from foodland and buying the 1999 Grammy Rap Nominees cd and driving around Owensboro blaring ‘Rosa parks’ by OutKast in my crappy truck

 

[UK82]

Album.

 

[jameslee32]

First 8-track:

First CD:

Can't remember first cassette purchase.

I can't remember bartering and trading from actual purchases with (under the table) earned income. Boston, KISS, Joe Walsh and Aerosmith were also on this teen's first list.

 

[JDHoss]

First 8 track

First album -

Also, kudos to my older brother who had a pretty nice collection that I also had access to...

 

[Glenn's take]

First tape, Belinda Carlisle - Heaven on Earth. Not proud of it.

The GoGo's had a few decent songs.

I saw her on the tour of her only solo album that I know in White Plains, NY. The chick I went with was hot and she liked her and Paul Carrack (Squeeze) was supposed to open up so there was that. She was a couple levels below meh, Paul Carrack canceled and I had to sit through Gilbert Gottfried and I didn't get laid. All in all, not one of my best nights.


Edit: BTW, for those of you that don't know what an 8-track was, it was what they gave you to learn patience. A 12 song album would be split into 4 3 song "albums". If you wanted to hear song 6, you could skip ahead to song 4 but you had to listen to 4 and 5 to hear 6.

 

[DSmith21]

First Album:





First CD:

I think that I bought 11 at once through the Columbia House music club. These were two of them...

 

[CaptainBoogerBuns]

U2 Live under a Blood Red Sky

 

[_ukcat]

 

[august-west]

Album: Thriller, MJ
Cassette: Hysteria, Def Leopard
CD: Ten, Pearl Jam

 

[chroix]

I won Foreigner IV playing shoot out the star at the local fair. First purchase was Business as Usual by Men at Work. God bless the 80s.

 

[WildcatfaninOhio]

First 8-tracks. I bought 3 at the same time…

Jimi Hendrix -“Smash Hits”
ZZ Top -“Fandango”
Robin Trower - “Bridge of Sighs”

First LP Album

Kansas - “Leftoverture”

First CD

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - “In Step”

 

[WilmoreCat]

8 track. Rod Stewart “ Foot Loose and Fancy Free”.

 

[Popquiz81]

The first cd I got was MC Hammer’s 2 Legit 2 Quit.

The first ones I bought with my own money were Nirvana’s Nevermind and Dr Dre’s the Chronic when I was 12.

I can still remember everything about that day and it felt like I was coming into some sort of new world.

 

[H. Lecter]

First tape, Belinda Carlisle - Heaven on Earth. Not proud of it.

Are you cute and fat or just fat?

 

[wildcatwelder]

First album was " Frampton Comes Alive", Peter Frampton.

First cassette was Boston's first album.

I can't recall what my first 8 track purchase was, but I will say this: 8 track SUUUUUUCKED!!

 

[Catman100]

I want to claim Kiss Love Gun as first record.
Might have actually have been Saturday Night Fever though.

First cassette had to be Billy Squier Emotions in Motion .

First CD was probably Bruce Springsteens's Born in the USA.

 

[sefleming]

1st LP probably Gary Lewis and Playboys Greatest hits
45 Probably Jewel Akins Birds and the Bees
CD Byrds box set

 

[wildcatwelder]

^^^^ 45"s . Wow, I had hundreds of those. They were great when there was only the one song you liked from a band, or if you didn't have the money as a kid to buy the whole album.

 

[crashtestdummy]

First album....

 

[Blue_2_the_bone]

Cassette - Licensed to ill

CD - Metallica Black Album

 

[BigBlueDave]

The summer before sixth grade a buddy and I walked six miles to a Kmart. He bought something cool, like Boston or Speedwagon. I bought...🤣🤣🤣

We had never walked that far before and told no one that we were going. We misjudged how tired we would be and how long it would take to be able to make the return trip home.

My friend called his 19 year old cousin and she drove us home. Neither set of parents ever knew of that stunt.





High school freshman me bought...

And these people are probably still looking for me.

I still have all of them.

 

[Popquiz81]

I can’t tell you how many times my friends and I defrauded Columbia House in high school 😂

 

[UK-BILL]

8 track - Kiss Alive!
Album - Styx Paradise Theatre
Cassette - Van Halen Diver Down
CD - Violent Femmes

Now my sister was 5 years older than me and helped me get these

 

[ukalum01]

 

[straykat]

Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

 

[HymanKaplan]

Ted Nugent - Free For All

(Variety Records, Turfland Mall)

 

[Mash 2.4]