First Album You Bought With Your Own Money (1 Viewer)

[saintmdterps]

I used to think I was so cool when I stopped listening to AM stations and only listened to FM and knew what AOR programming meant.

Yep, I thought I was cool when at age 12 or 13 I switched from Baltimore's WCAO and its top 40 format to WLPL and AOR, but I did discover Deep Purple, Grand Funk Railroad, Black Sabbath, and so many more.

 

[zeetes]

Bought it from Peaches Records in Gentilly when I was 15.

awesome. totally awesome.

 

[Madmarsha]

Hammerjacks, and all the Fell's Point bars! The Horse You Came In On, John Stevens, Ledbetters...Good times!

Side story, The Horse is one of the oldest bars in the USA to remain at the same location. Been a bar for 245 years, and stayed open through prohibition

I loved Fell's Point but didn't get a chance to party there much. If I was going to B-More, I was going to Hammerjacks! But, IIRC, I liked going to John Stevens.

Last time I was in Fell's Point, it was to go to Blue Moon on Aliceanna to have Capn Crunch french toast ... because I like to eat more than drink now.

 

[UncleTrvlingJim]

Hmmm... I know everyone gave each other this album in 1987 for our birthdays:

 

[UncleTrvlingJim]

My memory of 8-tracks was the kid across the street from me, for Christmas, probably 1980, got this little robot thing. It didn't really do much, it could move around but very poorly. But it did play 8-tracks. His sister had the Grease Soundtrack on 8-track and that's how we would play with this robot he got . . . by letting it play Grease for us. That's my predominant memory of 8-tracks.

The early 80s were weird.

We had the Star Wars soundtrack on 8-track. I listened to that over, and over -- and it's pretty much the only thing I remember about 8 track.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

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

Forgot about comedy- I had a bunch of Richard Pryor (cassettes) and Steve Martin (lps) - also bob and Doug McKenzie on vinyl

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Forgot about comedy- I had a bunch of Richard Pryor (cassettes) and Steve Martin (lps) - also bob and Doug McKenzie on vinyl

Our Bill Cosby ‘Himself’ cassette got played a lot on road trips.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Our Bill Cosby ‘Himself’ cassette got played a lot on road trips.

“Wonderfulness” was the one I wore out

 

[kizzy821]

Boyz II Men Cooleyhighharmony. It was from a record store in Lakeforest, but I hate that I can't remember the name of it.

 

[rail]

Axe - Offering

So bad it was good.

 

[LAhotsauce]

I do somehow remember, way back in the day, there was a music truck that was just like the ice cream truck.

It would drive on the street blaring loud music selling albums and singles (45s and 33s).

 

[Madmarsha]

Forgot about comedy- and Steve Martin (lps)

"So this couple came up to me after the show and said, "Hey, are you bi?" And I thought to myself, "Well, I speak a little Spanish, but not really enough to be bi..." But I didn't want to look stupid, so I said, "Sure, I'm bi." And they said, "Great, so we're having some S&M people over, after the show why don't you come on over?" So, I thought, "Great, Spaniards and Mexicans! That'll be fun to go over there and speak a little Spanish... "

 

[St. Chris]

The Beatles - Rubber Soul

Not when originally released. I was only 1 year old.

Probably around '73 or '74, when I was 9-10 years old. One of my brothers had among all his albums the red and blue compilation Beatles albums, which is what got me hooked. So the first album I bought was of course the Beatles. Not sure why I picked Rubber Soul. But glad I did.

 

[where yat brah]

It may have been more for the album cover than my love of the music.
2nd was

 

[Bleu Raeder]

I am old

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.