Yes, thanks mark.

Hmmm....I believe my first real album that I bought with my own money was from "Smash Mouth" when I was seven or eight I think. I cant remember the name of the album but I remember memorizing every song on it.

I don't buy singles, don't see a point in them...first album, ACDC/Back in Black...First song piarated, Pink Floyd, Welcome to the Machine.

CD: The Forrest Gump Soundtrack
Tape: The Joshua Tree by U2
Single: "500 Miles" by the Proclaimers

First Tape - Rich Mullins - Brother's Keeper

First CD - "Weird Al" Yankovic - Running With Scissors

First Single - KMFDM - Juke-Joint Jezebel: The Giorgio Moroder Mixes

Almost all the singles I have are maxi singles - I can't see the point of buying one unless there are at least two remixes and/or b-sides.

singles are only good if they are on vinyl and u are a dj...so u can get instrumental and accapela's...otherwsie i agree it is prety pointless...unless there is some special remix.

but these days you probabbly would be able to find it for download somewhere.

I realize that this means nothing vis-a-vis modern day, but the first singles (45s) I bought were not available on LPs at the time (in 1966): The Mamas and the Papas "California Dreamin'" and the Beatles "Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out" (a double-A-side.) Singles used to mean something in the OLDE days!

Tape: Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory
CD: I can't remember...Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP maybe?
Single: I've never bought a single

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Originally posted by dano:
Single: I've never bought a single

No biggie, but back in the days, the only way YOU could own "Day Tripper", "We Can Work It Out", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "I Am the Walrus", "Paperback Writer", etc. before the album was to get the single! I know you love to bust your nut to get all the music early, but back in the '60s, that WAS the single. Of course, I'm proud to own EVERY Smiths single on vinyl, bought at the time of release, but everybody has to work with what they've got.

Yeah, I grew up after the singles era, and in the beginning stages of online music piracy, so I never saw the use of buying a single. Plus, I didn't really take a strong interest in music until this past year, so I wasn't buying much music at all back in high school.

And yeah, I like to get music early, because normally I really want to hear it. If I like it I buy it (when I have the money, which is a lot less often than I'd like), if not, I delete it.

I think the first CD I bought was the Star Wars soundtrack. I'm not sure though. Around the same time, I also bought:

Live - Throwing Copper (which I still like)

Counting Crows - August and Everything After (I still adore this album as well)

Creed - I don't remember the name, because I never listened to the entire CD. In fact, the only song I think I ever listened to was "Higher."

Verve Pipe - Villains ("Freshmen" is still one of my all-time favorite songs. The rest of the album is mediocre at best.)

I think the first tape I owned was the Rocky IV Soundtrack. It still rules. I especially love the two instrumentals by Vince DiCola, "War" and "Training Montage."

I've never bought a single, though I remember my brother buying Duncan Sheik's "Barely Breathing" single. I listened to that song a lot for a couple weeks.

CD: Downtrain Train (Selections from the Storyteller Anthology) by Rod Stewart...that was in 1990 so i was 6.

My First album I think was "Women and Children First" by Van Halen. I didn't get a CD player until the early 90's, but I remember my first CD was "Grave Dancers Union" by Soul Asylum.

vinyl: Michael Jackson, Thriller (I also had a Michael Jackson record player in the early 80s.)

tape: Billy Idol, Billy Idol

CD: Stone Temple Pilots, Tiny Music…Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop (Yes, I didn't get a CD player until '96.)

Single: Nine Inch Nails, Down In It

single - Space Oddity by Bowie (around '75 second release I think, I liked the space travel references)

vinyl - Machine Head by Deep Purple (bought in '77 from my mate's dad for £2 with original gatefold sleeve)

cd - Hats by the Blue Nile (bought 1989 around time of release; has not aged well)

oh lordy, do I feel old

good thread this

First single was Carly Simon "You're So Vain"

First Album was Queen "Sheer Heart Attack"
Second Album was Kiss "Alive"

Have to admit though, that my old man was also a music freak and had all the Beatles, Dylan, Zep, Stones from the day.

First album: Bad Religion - Recipe for Hate
FIrs single: New Order - Blue Monday vinyl single

Sgt. Pepper

I was 16 years old and was in my Beatles-phase

First ever song I got was a 45 album when I was a kid:

Queen - Another one bites the dust

First cd's I ever bought were The Cure's "Staring at the Sea: The Singles" and The Smiths "Louder Than Bombs".

I can still distinctly remember hearing the first notes of "Killing an Arab" bounce across the room and jumping at how realistic the sounds were that came out of my speakers. I never bought another cassette tape again.

When I was a kid my folks bought me and my brother a copy of Michael Jackson's Thriller. That was the first album I can remember playing constantly by choice.

The first album I ever bought with my own saved up lunch money was People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm by A Tribe Called Quest.