WTF BITCH YOUR A FUCKIN’ JACKASS!☺…

I didn’t agree with you first, but last paragraph makes sense for me…

There must be something before this, but the first LP I remember buying is Billy Joel’s The Stranger. I already had a bunch of albums by then but I think they were all gifts.

Being a kid, I spent a lot of my disposable income on 45s. The first two I bought were “The Joker” by Steve Miller and “Smokin’ in the Boys Room” by Brownsville Station.

My first CD was Dark Side of the Moon. I didn’t even own a player yet but I knew that was the first thing I wanted to hear.

First tape was Depeche Mode, People are People….first CD was New Order, Low Life.

First stolen MP3 was Morrissey, Suedehead.

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Cassette: Madonna, self-titled

CD (and keep in mind that it was 5th grade): New Kids on the Block, self-titled. Which maybe makes it slightly cooler because it was before Hangin’ Tough was released and no one knew how lame they were yet

Thankfully I am not quite old enough to have an eight-track purchase to add to that list.

This first album I ever bought was “Book of Dreams” by the Steve Miller Band. I bought it from a friend, Donnie Whittington, for three bucks. I thought it was so cool, it had ‘Swingtown’ and ‘Jungle Love’ which I had just heard on my new transistor(!) radio. Between the radio and the secondhand turntable my brother and I shared I just couldn’t wait to buy an album, ANY album, and Donnie’s offer was irresistible. At that point in time, $3 was a bargain when you considered that a new vinyl album (LP’s anyone? To play on your ‘Hi-Fi’?) was about three times the price.

Looking back, I realize that the songs really were just okay, but heady stuff for a dorky, shy kid who was just beginning to understand the power of music. Alas, the album is long gone, but the memories!

I found later that Donnie was surreptitiously selling off albums from his brother’s collection to help finance the purchase of recreational pharmaceuticals of the herbaceous variety…lucky for me, his brother didn’t know I had it.