What Was The First Ever Album You Bought on Your Own?

[RDCanecutter 26454]

Either

or

because I think I bought them the same day.

[Hpara759 1780]

[mbtex 683]

First 8 Track from sound warehouse.

 

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

26 minutes ago, davidg said:

You weren't a 70's male if you didn't have this album / 8-track

[Sbbruin 21861]

I bought a few at the same time- from Wherehouse Records.

[Iceman 2719]

AC*DC Back In Black

[Mach 1 1677]

3 hours ago, mbtex said:

 

 

Let's peek inside this album, shall we?

 

[Rimbo 25985]

There were others in the $0.01 batch -- it was, after all, the Columbia Record Club -- but this was the one that began a lifelong obsession.

Edited March 27, 2019 by Rimbo

[Rimbo 25985]

7 minutes ago, Mach 1 said:

 

 

Let's peek inside this album, shall we?

 

So much to love.

[Vic Mackey 47088]

Timeless classic!

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

3 Dog Night Hard Labor followed by Cheech and Chongs Sleeping Beauty

[mbtex 683]

Purchased most from Sound Warehouse and Texas Tapes and Records

 

 

[mbtex 683]

Double Post

 

 

Edited March 27, 2019 by mbtex

[davidg 4038]

2 hours ago, Cheeseweasel said:

You weren't a 70's male if you didn't have this album / 8-track

Yes, but did you rock it in one of these?

[dogbreath 434]

I think it was this...Texas You're Number One

 

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

40 minutes ago, davidg said:

Yes, but did you rock it in one of these?

No. I had this:

[Jograves 357]

See this system here? It's hi-fi. That means it's got the highest quality fidelity. 

[HiggyBaby 2539]

12 year old me went a little nuts until my parents got the bill... maybe it was Elton John or Tears for Fears I played first.

[abuelo gringo 321]

Another record club kiddo here, only I was with RCA Victor, as I was mostly into jazz and swing.  This was certainly one of my first that I purchased myself if not the first.  I was working at a laundromat for 50 cents an hour and LPs at the time ran $2.98 for the most part.  This was more, as it was a double album.

Released in 1960, I still had it until a house flood about 3 years ago.  I lost hundreds of LPs, 45s, and 78s.  C'est la Vie. It goes to show you never can tell.

 

 

This was great, as it included Caruso, Tommy Dorsey, Harry Belafonte, and Maurice Chevalier, an eclectic collection. I played the hell out of it in the early 60s.

Edited March 27, 2019 by abuelo gringo

[abuelo gringo 321]

5 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

I miss the local CD Warehouse. I found so many gems in there in their used albums section. People brought all kinds of albums in there to trade in. You never knew what you would find. I was in there every week. The malls all had a record store and sometimes two. Sam Goody was a big one. 

I miss the old Ace Record Store on Elm in downtown Dallas in the 60s.  Thousands of used Blues and R&B 78s for $2-5. Never could afford much, but could spend hours just looking.

[Sbbruin 21861]

Don't forget the old Licorice Pizza (not sur eif you had em in Texas)

 

Our go to's were Wherehouse, Music+, Tower, Licorice Pizza, and Sam Goody

 

Edited March 27, 2019 by Sbbruin

[Deej 76837]

AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds" on 8-track.

[Deej 76837]

5 hours ago, davidg said:

Yes, but did you rock it in one of these?

Had that in yellow.

[VABuckeye 2472]

I believe it was an Olivia Newton John album.  Twelve year old me was head over heels for her.  

However, in the 60’s my mom worked at a radio station and I had a shitlad of free demo 45’s. 

[Bartles 769]

Tracklist 
A1 –Juice Newton Queen Of Hearts 
A2 –Rick Springfield Jessie's Girl 
A3 –Billy Squier The Stroke 
A4 –Pat Benatar Fire And Ice 
A5 –Climax Blues Band I Love You 
A6 –Gary Wright Really Wanna Know You 
A7 –Manhattan Transfer Boy From New York City 
B1 –Hall & Oates You Make My Dreams 
B2 –Greg Kihn Band The Breakup Song 
B3 –Pablo Cruise Cool Love 
B4 –Air Supply The One That You Love 
B5 –Alan Parsons Project, The Time 
B6 –Stars On Stars On 45 (Medley I) 
B7 –Oak Ridge Boys Elvira

[Deej 76837]

I always put Billy Squier and The Oakridge Boys on any mixtape.

[CooterBrown 18015]

I bought two cassettes for my first music purchase at Sound Warehouse in Houston: Van Halen - 1984 and Midnight Star - No Parking on the Dance Floor.

[utee94 15835]

Before we had these:

How many of you ever recorded into this:

 

From these?

[BoomMF 1399]

Wynonna Judd's solo debut "Wynonna." #noragrets

[tbone_ 14131]

Nm

[dcar00 14283]

already mentioned, but this is mine.  hard to top this as a first album.  did buy bad company burnin sky before this for a 2.00 from an older high school kid but this was my first album bought retail....sound warehouse.

 

[tbone_ 14131]

It was a twofer:

Eagles - The Long Run

Led Zeppelin - IV

 

Put the needle down...”Hey hey momma said the way you move, gonna make you sweat gonna make you groove!”

 

Haven’t been the same since.

 

[Turkleton 145]

14 hours ago, Mach 1 said:

 

 

Let's peek inside this album, shall we?

 

Leo's

[Grandioso 2592]

Walmart circa 1991 or 1992. Bought both at the same time.

These albums were released within 2 weeks of one another. Holy shit I was a fucking cool ass 10 year old. 

[Tom 2959]

21 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

I miss the local CD Warehouse. I found so many gems in there in their used albums section. People brought all kinds of albums in there to trade in. You never knew what you would find. I was in there every week. The malls all had a record store and sometimes two. Sam Goody was a big one. 

I'd love going into Sam Goody to browse and to listen to the new albums on their headphones.  Then I'd balk at the $20 price tag on their CDs and run to a CD Warehouse to actually buy my music.

[Tom 2959]

 

 

 

[Ogie Ogilthorpe 639]

 

[hullabelew 3724]

Around The World With Three Dog Night.  Double Live album.  I was 11.  I heard "Black and White" while we were rummaging through a friends older sister's albums.  

[hullabelew 3724]

11 hours ago, utee94 said:

Before we had these:

How many of you ever recorded into this:

 

From these?

I used to record all Midnight Special episodes on cassettes from the TV broadcast from the speakers of a little 12" portable TV.  Took the episode with Queen doing Bohemian Rhapsody to school the following Monday and spread around the greatness.   

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

11 hours ago, utee94 said:

 

My buddies and I used this to create Dickie Goodman style songs in the 70's.

For those who don't know who Dickie Goodman was, here you go:

 

[TwiceHorn 31506]

12 hours ago, utee94 said:

Before we had these:

How many of you ever recorded into this:

 

From these?

Better-fi, but still amusing:  hearing the opening chords of a song you wanted and scrambling over to hit play+record on  your built-in cassette deck.  Or, hearing that the song was coming up on The Zoo and hitting play+record+pause and waiting by the receiver with your finger on the pause button.

And the young agony of deciding on that first stereo:  go with the completely integrated one like in your photo, or the Technics SA202 or 303, low-end turntable and speakers for a bit more money and no cassette deck, but you knew it sounded better.

Edited March 28, 2019 by TwiceHorn

[Jerry Callo 8704]

I may be crazy, but I think this is the first album I bought with my own money.

 

[Jograves 357]

11 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Better-fi, but still amusing:  hearing the opening chords of a song you wanted and scrambling over to hit play+record on  your built-in cassette deck.  Or, hearing that the song was coming up on The Zoo and hitting play+record+pause and waiting by the receiver with your finger on the pause button.

And then the gawddamn DJ talks over the intro to the song so whenever you want to listen to your mixtape with 867-5309 on it, you have to listen to the time and weather from 6 months prior. 

[TwiceHorn 31506]

11 minutes ago, Jograves said:

And then the gawddamn DJ talks over the intro to the song so whenever you want to listen to your mixtape with 867-5309 on it, you have to listen to the time and weather from 6 months prior. 

And starting to record right in the middle of the last song you managed to capture this way.  So 867-5309 starts up right in the middle of Freeze Frame.

[utee94 15835]

24 minutes ago, Jograves said:

And then the gawddamn DJ talks over the intro to the song so whenever you want to listen to your mixtape with 867-5309 on it, you have to listen to the time and weather from 6 months prior. 

At the end of every year on New Year's Eve, K98 here in Austin would play the Top 98 songs of the year. I'd diligently sit there and record my favorites off the radio, and was similarly annoyed at the DJ talk.

However, I must say that many years later, going back and listening to those cassettes became a bit of an interesting view into a time capsule, so ultimately I was somewhat thankful for the chatter.

 

[WhatTheBuck 28788]

Sgt. Pepper's. 

[oSuJeff97 3435]

I have a very strong memory of this... bought this tape at K-mart with my own little 9-year-old money...

[Bash Riprock 1695]

Use Your Illusion 1 and 2.

[Rip76 4943]

20 minutes ago, oSuJeff97 said:

I have a very strong memory of this... bought this tape at K-mart with my own little 9-year-old money...

Man this album has so many memories for me.

It was release just before Hurricane Alicia, right in the height of my BMX days.  

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

4 hours ago, Jerry Callo said:

I may be crazy, but I think this is the first album I bought with my own money.

You may be right.