First Album You Bought With Your Own Money
First I bought with my money was Three Dog Night's Cyan. I had bought 45's previously.
The next albums were Cheech and Chong's first album, then Big Bambu. Next was George Carlin's Class Clown. In between my parents gave me a couple Johnny Cash albums.
When I was 10, I had 2 baseball gloves and as yet knew nothing about music. A buddy of mine wanted one of my gloves and said he'd give me three albums for it. Jeff knew even less than I about music but nonetheless he raided his brother's album collection and I wound up with:
Jethro Tull-Aqualung
CSN-4-way Street
Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin III
I still have them and they actually play pretty well. Jeff's brother Gary knew a lot about music :)