1st Album, Record (1 Viewer)

[sammy719]

Ok Y'all...Jump in the way back machine and tell me what's the first Album or Record you bought with your own money, not a Christmas gift, or Grammy gave you a 20, but money you earned out there cutting grass, washing cars, job etc..etc....I cashed in on some yard jobs and bought my first Album being Styx....Cornerstone.

 

[Dragoon]

It was a double album...Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin

 

[simmo]

Still play it occasionally 40 odd years later………Boomtown Rats, Tonic for the Troops.

All killer, no filler

 

[wayne556517]

Still have it and every other AC/DC album with their best singer the lad from Scotland and Freo Mr Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott.

 

[panda1gen]

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

 

[tdubel]

AC/DC For Those About to Rock. Still have that copy.
TD

 

[tdubel]

2nd Album ever purchased - Iron Maiden Number of the Beast

Side note, first "deal" I ever made in my life at 10 years old was buying my buddy's Ozzy albums (we used to share, he would buy some, I would buy some). He sold me original Jet Record Label Diary of a Madman, Blizzard of Ozz and Live Mr. Crowley Picture Disc for $10. Still have them today, what a steal and I rub it in every time I see him.
TD

 

[Louis Badolato]

AC/DC For Those About to Rock. Still have that copy.
TD

It wasn't my first (I had been buying albums for around 5-6 years at that point) but I bought it and loved it. My first was Deep Purple Greatest Hits on 8-Track. I do not still have it (lol) although I still love every Deep Purple song except Smoke on the Water.

 

[OzDigger]

I was a late adapter to vinyl albums as the only record player in our family home was in the kitchen/dining room, which was not the best place to listen to music. I preferred to listen to cassette 'albums' in my bedroom played on my trusty Toshiba portable, cassettes were also more versatile as could play them in my first car (Valiant Ranger) on my Clarion cassette deck that I installed myself. I would think that 8 tracks were a rare thing in Australia by that stage.

Consequently I think the first vinyl album I purchased was in 1978 after I had left school and renting my first apartment, and here it is;

Jackson Browne...Running On Empty

I no longer have an vinyl albums, totally digital listener these days.

 

[BobZ]

This was my first. Bought it when it first came out. Yes, I'm old.