First Album You Bought With Your Own Money (2 Viewers)

[Madmarsha]

I didn't buy them but I do remember listening to my sister's Janis Joplin "Pearl", James Taylor "Mud Slide Slim", and Carole King "Tapestry" albums.

 

[superchuck500]

First record I bought with my own money was the 45 single, "Take the Long Way Home" (Supertramp). I saved up some quarters to go get it. It was 99 cents and I had four quarters and my dad explained to me how sales tax worked and that I didn't have enough money yet. We had to wait for me to do some more chores.

I think the first LP (cassette) I bought with my own money was Bryan Adams Reckless. A few years later I remember buying Run-DMC Raising Hell cassette with my own money - I felt very subversive and independent when I walked out of K-Mart in Mandeville with that tape.

I need to change my answer. I definitely bought Duran Duran Seven and the Ragged Tiger cassette with my own money. That was year before Reckless.

 

[efil4stnias]

Wow what a great thought.

Which I so remember mine.. Billy Joel Glass Houses. The cover looked so cool. I wanna say he was in leather jacket and aviators in front of like massive window panes.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

I need to change my answer. I definitely bought Duran Duran Seven and the Ragged Tiger cassette with my own money. That was year before Reckless.

Not as subversive

 

[zatsnzapps]

Thriller.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

I need to change my answer. I definitely bought Duran Duran Seven and the Ragged Tiger cassette with my own money. That was year before Reckless.

‘Cassettes’ reminded me that when I got to NY probably 90% of my music purchases were bootlegs from dudes with suitcases on Atlantic Ave or wherever

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Thriller.

Why cover eyes?
itd be hard to pick a better 1st album purchase

 

[superchuck500]

‘Cassettes’ reminded me that when I got to NY probably 90% of my music purchases were bootlegs from dudes with suitcases on Atlantic Ave or wherever

Whenever I think of NYC-era GMR, this is what I think of.

 

[superchuck500]

Not as subversive

As Reckless?

 

[DaveXA]

Thriller.

Nothing wrong with that. I liked it.

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Wow what a great thought.

Which I so remember mine.. Billy Joel Glass Houses. The cover looked so cool. I wanna say he was in leather jacket and aviators in front of like massive window panes.

I wish i had had such good taste back then.. I particularly like Dont Ask Me Why off of Glass Houses.. also, as big a fan of Billy Joel as i consider myself to be- i didnt realize until fairly recently that he sang ‘Sometimes a Fantasy’ from that album.. i dont know why i never put it together that it was him until a couple years ago.. although it’s entirely possible i knew way back when, but then went 30 years without hearing it and forgot.

 

[Madmarsha]

Why cover eyes?
itd be hard to pick a better 1st album purchase

"Thriller" is even a "I remember where I was" when the video debuted!

 

[Madmarsha]

“1984” on vinyl. Do I have to name the band?

I had all the Van Halen albums.

 

[zatsnzapps]

Why cover eyes?
itd be hard to pick a better 1st album purchase

Well. I was a top 40 listener at the time, and I like MJ too, so I bought it.

My musical tastes changed pretty significantly toward alternative music once I started working a few years later. I was introduced to the Violent Femmes by some of the older fellow employees, and that changed me forever.

I think back to that time and my musical tastes, and it's just so different from where I've been for the last few decades.

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

My first car was a 1974 Caddy. Had the old 8 track player.

I can vividly remember having an 8 track player in our 1976 Ford Econoline conversion van with shag carpet that my dad totaled the first time we took it on vacation.. but before he totaled it, we WORE OUT Frampton Comes Alive like everyone else in America that summer.. I wouldve only been 2 or 3 yrs old, so it’s one of my very earliest memories in life.. Frampton, but also Slip Sliding Away and Rhinestone Cowboy were my jams.