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Posted: 11/8/2023 11:02:37 PM EST

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Posted: 11/8/2023 11:03:10 PM EST

[#2]

First 45 rpm, "Surfin Bird" by The Trashmen, December 1963, I was 8.
First album was Easter 1964 present from my parents, Meet The Beatles.
I'm trying t remember my first CD, I'm guessing a CD copy of one of my junior-senior high school Love, Grateful Dead or Junior Wells vinyl albums.

Posted: 11/8/2023 11:03:21 PM EST

[#3]

Didn't get into CDs till my late teens. First one I bought was Motley crue/ Dr. Feelgood. I was a tape guy till the late 80's early 90's.

Posted: 11/8/2023 11:04:10 PM EST

[#4]

Pretty sure it was Greatful Dead

Posted: 11/8/2023 11:05:59 PM EST

[#5]

Jock Jams.

Posted: 11/8/2023 11:08:28 PM EST

[#6]

First CD was ... I don't know, maybe The Lion King sound track for my daughter. First vinyl lp album was If you can believe your eyes and ears - The Mamas and the Papas.

eta: First 45 rpm record was Johnny Horton Battle of New Orleans

Posted: 11/8/2023 11:10:10 PM EST

[#7]

Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon and Dire Straits recently released Brothers In Arms, picked them up at the Camp Courtney PX the day I bought an Akai CD player.

Posted: 11/8/2023 11:10:31 PM EST

[#8]

My Sega CD that I bought in 1993 came with these music CDs (in addition to CD-ROMs):

Hot Hits: Adventurous New Music Sampler
"Rock Paintings" CD+G music disc

Posted: 11/8/2023 11:10:49 PM EST

[#9]

The Offspring- Americana.

Posted: 11/8/2023 11:17:22 PM EST

[#10]

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Posted: 11/8/2023 11:20:20 PM EST

[#11]

Not so much bought but given in return for money owed to me

M|A|R|R|S - Pump Up The Volume (Official Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9gOQgfPW4Y

Posted: 11/8/2023 11:29:25 PM EST

[#12]

1st CD- Power Station
2nd - Van Halen 1984
3rd - Boston Third Stage

This was my first CD player gotten in 1984 for Christmas in 10th grade when they were not widely available in my locale. There was not a large selection of cds to choose from at first.

I have over 500 cds now. Still prefer them to streaming or mp3s. I have several cd players but I still own the first one from 1984, a Sony- and it still works.

Posted: 11/8/2023 11:34:02 PM EST

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If by CD you mean simply buying music then that's easy. First ever music I bought with my money was two tapes at the same time.

When it comes to CDs I'm not sure. Could be Dakota Motor Co. ... Hootie's Cracked Rearview ... or Natalie Merchant's Tigerlily.

Posted: 11/9/2023 12:32:20 AM EST

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Not bought, but given:

The year was 1986. Pioneer released their first 6 cd cartridge player and Fripp released The Compact King Crimson. I got both for Christmas. I must have asked for the KC because I don't think my parents would have bought it on their own. Although, they did buy my first cassette, Street Survivors without my prompting. I also remember Geddy Lee hosted a syndicated radio show around that time, and he played Frame By Frame, so that's probably what inspired me to request that CD.

Posted: 11/9/2023 1:45:26 AM EST

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Testament the ritual 1992.
Then I bought all my cassette tapes on CD also. still have all of them.

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Posted: 11/9/2023 2:11:52 AM EST

[#16]

I bought two:
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
Kiss - Crazy Nighta

Posted: 11/9/2023 2:12:47 AM EST

[#17]

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Cathy Dennis- Move to This.

Still have it.

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My wife and I used to love her song "Into the Skyline".

Posted: 11/9/2023 3:08:05 AM EST

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Same here!

Posted: 11/9/2023 3:23:08 AM EST

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Short answer is no but I'm buying CD's when I go to gigs. The last CD I bought was "Graham Nash-Live" when I saw him in concert last month

Posted: 11/9/2023 3:37:25 AM EST

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Posted: 11/9/2023 4:12:55 AM EST

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How do you guys remember this stuff? I remember my first concert (Three Dog Night), but I don't recall my first 45/album/8-track/cassette/CD.

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My neither. The first 45 would have been in '68, the rest scattered out after that and the first cd in late '85. I don't have a clue what they were.

Posted: 11/9/2023 5:40:28 AM EST

[#22]

NAS, Eminem & Linkin Park

Posted: 11/9/2023 5:50:42 AM EST

[#23]

I cant be sure as it was lonnng ago, but I think it was Guns n Roses Use Your Illusion II. Could have been skid row as well….cant recall.

Posted: 11/9/2023 5:53:39 AM EST

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First CD: Pink Floyd - The Wall

First Cassette: The Police - Synchronicity

Posted: 11/9/2023 6:04:58 AM EST

[#25]

Bob Marley Legend

Posted: 11/9/2023 6:08:06 AM EST

[#26]

Yes.
Dr Feelgood.

Posted: 11/9/2023 6:17:06 AM EST

[#27]

ZZ Top "Eliminator" or "Afterburner".

Tears For Fears "Songs from the Big Chair" and Springsteen's "Born in the USA" were my first and second CD's, respectively, but they were gifts. ZZ Top's "Deguello" was one of the very first albums and/or cassettes I bought, myself, otherwise, that would have been my first CD. Back when funds were very limited and purchasing decisions were a big deal, I couldn't justify buying a CD when I already owned the album.

Posted: 11/9/2023 6:32:27 AM EST

[#28]

Axis Bold As Love Remaster - Hendrix

Posted: 11/9/2023 7:23:26 AM EST

[#29]

First CD was appetite for destruction, Guns N’ Roses

First Cassette was back in Black, AC/DC

Posted: 11/9/2023 7:28:57 AM EST

[#30]

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My dad was a big Audiophile. Had a stereo system that all my friends creamed themselves over. I was never allowed to touch it.

For Christmas one year, probably 84 or 85, he got me a Toshiba portable CD player. I believe it was the second portable to hit the market after Sony. It had a detachable battery pack that used C batteries and a carry case.

https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/62351/toshiba_cd_player_jpg-3020721.JPG

It also had a wedge shaped AC adapter base it could connect to for home use.
https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/62351/toshiba_wedge_jpg-3020723.JPG

First CD I bought for it was Metallica's Ride the Lightning.

I used the "line out" jack to plug it into the "AUX" RCA jacks on the back of my Boom Box or to one of those cassette tape adapters in my car.

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My dad was a big Audiophile. Had a stereo system that all my friends creamed themselves over. I was never allowed to touch it.

For Christmas one year, probably 84 or 85, he got me a Toshiba portable CD player. I believe it was the second portable to hit the market after Sony. It had a detachable battery pack that used C batteries and a carry case.

https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/62351/toshiba_cd_player_jpg-3020721.JPG

It also had a wedge shaped AC adapter base it could connect to for home use.
https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/62351/toshiba_wedge_jpg-3020723.JPG

First CD I bought for it was Metallica's Ride the Lightning.

I used the "line out" jack to plug it into the "AUX" RCA jacks on the back of my Boom Box or to one of those cassette tape adapters in my car.

And there it is (i think). My dad brought home a CD player around 86-87 probably and it looked like this. He didn't use it much and I wasn't allowed to touch it and I think he sold it a short time later. In revenge I have enough CDs to build a small house with.

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My Sega CD that I bought in 1993 came with these music CDs (in addition to CD-ROMs):

Hot Hits: Adventurous New Music Sampler
"Rock Paintings" CD+G music disc

And my first CD player was a JVC X-Eye which was an oddball Sega Genesis/CD all in one that commands a high price these days and which a friend "lost" after borrowing it.

Posted: 11/9/2023 7:32:03 AM EST

[#31]

Definitely - 2112 by Rush.

Posted: 11/9/2023 7:33:13 AM EST

[#32]

ELP. Brain Salad Surgery.

My Dad was always into the latest technology. Us kids got CD players for Christmas in 82.

Posted: 11/9/2023 7:37:39 AM EST

[#33]

I remember my first 8-track, it was: 'Around the World with Three Dog Night' around 1973, and the first CD might have been The Go-Go's around 1987-88.
Then I started replacing all of my albums with CDs.

Posted: 11/9/2023 9:25:27 AM EST

[#34]

Probably U2 or Tom Petty.

Posted: 11/9/2023 9:45:49 AM EST

[#35]

I bought a Sony Discman, George Straight greatest hits multi cd set and a Metalica CD but don't remember which one.

Posted: 11/9/2023 9:50:14 AM EST

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Green Day Dookie

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This one and Offspring "Smash" at the same time. I think I also bought The Crash Test Dummies as well.

I can't remember the name of the store but it was one of those mall music stores like "Sam Goody".

They were like $15 a piece IIRC. I guess that's one thing that hasn't gotten mobbed by inflation in the last 30 years.

Posted: 11/9/2023 9:53:46 AM EST

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Didn't get into CDs till my late teens. First one I bought was Motley crue/ Dr. Feelgood. I was a tape guy till the late 80's early 90's.

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I think most people were. CD players were pretty expensive and skipped if you breathed on them up until the early 90s iirc.

Posted: 11/9/2023 9:57:53 AM EST

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Pretty sure this was it in the early 90's at a Tower Records in MD but I'm not positive. I do remember getting the Ghostbusters II soundtrack and an MC Hammer tape before that CD though, I was a kid lol.

Posted: 11/9/2023 10:00:21 AM EST

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I think most people were. CD players were pretty expensive and skipped if you breathed on them up until the early 90s iirc.

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Didn't get into CDs till my late teens. First one I bought was Motley crue/ Dr. Feelgood. I was a tape guy till the late 80's early 90's.

I think most people were. CD players were pretty expensive and skipped if you breathed on them up until the early 90s iirc.

Yup, I remember how cool it was to get the "tough" Discman that was "skip proof" in HS.

ETA: I checked a drawer where I though it may be, still have it.

Posted: 11/9/2023 10:01:51 AM EST

[#40]

Dire Straits "Brothers in Arms".

Some great songs on that one. The title track, though, chokes me up thinking of absent friends.

Posted: 11/9/2023 10:17:12 AM EST

[#41]

Voodoo Chile, a hendrix bootleg of the crater show on Hawaii.

Posted: 11/9/2023 10:24:04 AM EST

[#42]

I was past the 8 track days but remember my first tape, it was The Police and then my First CD was Metallica, I already had the tapes but switched over during them. I can't remember which album it was, I think and justice for all.

Posted: 11/9/2023 10:26:51 AM EST

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I traded a broken .22 pump rifle for a Harmon Kardon Citation 17S pre amp at a pawn shop when i was 16 or 17 around 1984.

Immediately took it to the local hi end stereo shop. They kindly hooked it up to a big McIntosh amp and popped in a doobies cd and played “china grove” loudly through a set of nice JBL speakers. First time i had heard music from a CD.

They might as well as given me crack. I was hooked. That shop got a lot of my money over the years . Their time being cool to a young kid was well invested.

Posted: 11/9/2023 10:47:29 AM EST

[#44]

Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien.

Posted: 11/9/2023 10:56:20 AM EST

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This was first CD early 90s, don’t remember first cassette, that’s way too far back

Posted: 11/9/2023 11:02:06 AM EST

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10 CD’s from Columbia House for 1 penny FTW!!!!!

Can’t remember what I got though…

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I was about 14 and these offers came in the mail.. I picked all the CD's and sent it in.. CD's came.. Then so did the bill that was NOT a penny. My dad was PISSED.. I did get some cool ones though.. Alice in Chains, Sublime, Cypress Hill. etc.

Posted: 11/9/2023 11:04:29 AM EST

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i don't remember the first ablum i bought.

but i remember the first day i got my restricted license, which in SC means i had taken driver training and drove something like 3 months without a ticket and/or accident, meaning i could drive on my own was the first day the Slim Shady LP came out. obviously i'm not a fan of Eminem anymore but i remember driving to Best Buy and buying the CD.