First Album You Bought With Your Own Money
I laugh in your general direction.
Our house was a veritable warehouse of vinyl, for a number of reasons, so it is hard to remember when I bought my first album exactly. It may have been Chicago Transit Authority in 1969 or Tower of Power's East Bay Grease in 1970. One of the first 45's I bought on my own was all about NASA and moon landing stuff, some time in the mid-60's with my allowance which was a quarter a week at the time. I had to save for a couple of weeks. The first cassette I ever owned was a gift for Christmas in '71, Carole King's Tapestry. I also received a cassette by a band named Punch who had an awesome cover of the Beatle's While My Guitar Gently Weeps.