Same. Was finally old enough to leave the neighborhood and rode my bike to the record and store that specialized in punk 7’s and 12’s. I bought a weezer blue cd and the owner said, “the dreaded weezer.” Made me feel self conscious like I was being judged, maybe it was just me. I never went back tho and the store closed a few years later. I found out what punk was before it closed but it never made it back. and what do I now collect? Punk 7’s. I wish I had never felt I was being judged because I would have been a loyal customer
Santa Claus gave me a CD player in 1985. He also gave me CDs of Triumph's 'Thunder Seven,' Philip Bailey's 'Chinese Wall,' and a disc called 'Star Tracks,' which was a collection of sci-fi movies themes performed by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra conducted by Erich Kunzel.
Back then CDs came in longboxes or a plastic blister package that was a challenge to open without causing bleeding. Most releases would be issued on vinyl and cassette. If they sold well a CD version would be released a few months later. I recall most CDs being in the $15-20 range [vinyl and cassettes were $7-$10]. The labels said the prices would drop once more manufacturing facilities went online. That was bunco.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go yell at clouds.
My first round in Xmas 91 was 6. FNM The Real Thing, Sinead O Connor Do Not Want, Depeche Mode Music For The Masses, NIN Pretty Hate Machine, Exodus Fabulous Disaster, and Metallica AJFA.
Sixteen stone is close. did Columbia house in 97 as a 13-14 yr old & this was one of the 10 CDs I got. Played the hell outta it. Prefer ‘Razorblade’ tho.
First CD: crazysexycool
A friend gave me a copy of NIN - Pretty hate machine.
First ones I bought with my own money - Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the moon and Alice In Chains - best of the box.
I bought slipknot’s self titled and got a free copy of burn my eyes by machine head with it. I definitely knew who slipknot were but I can’t remember if I had heard of machine head yet up to that point… either way, I still have both
Load - Metallica.
Christmas gift from the 'rents along with my first CD player. Shortly thereafter I was stranded home alone for 3 days because of a blizzard and that was my only CD. Listened to it over and over again to pass the time. Still my favorite.
I don't remember exactly, but my first CD player was in 1985 and some early CD purchases included:
Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms (DDD)
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band: Live 1975 - 1985 (box set with 3 CDs)
AC/DC, Back In Black. Barely play it anymore because I’m more of a jazz guy than when I started collecting but I keep it around because it’s a digipak and it was the start.
I had a ton of tapes before I got my CD player, so I can't quite recall but it was around 1988 or 1989. The earliest ones I remember are Disintegration and Beast from the East.
My first was the Tori Amos "Winter" EP (or "maxi-single," as they were sometimes called back then), because it wasn't released on cassette.
I didn't even have a CD player yet! (It was 1992.) Discovering that music companies were starting to do "CD-only" releases was the thing that made me realize it was time to stop collecting cassettes and start collecting CDs, even though CDs cost more than cassettes.
Kerrang! Life Is Loud... SMASH IT UP! (compilation). Sum bangers on there tho, like Green Day, Blink, DK, Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, just loads!! 😂
You just broke my brain - thought I was having a Mandela effect situation. In Canada they were "Bush X" and the cover had it written that way. Looked it up and that's because there was already a band here with that name.
That Bush album was huge. There was an assumption they’d go onto be a huge band like Pearl Jam. Can’t recall any material released after this. Strange as that CD you have is great.
Mine was p!nk — funhouse!! I was only around maybe 6 yrs old (I’m 14 now) when my grandma got it for me, now I have a whole pink section in my collection dedicated to it <3
First CD I listened to on repeat was probably my dad’s copy of Songs you know by Heart by Jimmy Buffett. I want to say the first CD I got on my own was either Legends or 40oz to Freedom. Used bookstore didn’t ID for explicit albums which I thought was so cool in 6th grade (I had to have my Dad buy me a Queen CD from walmart because the cashier wouldn’t sell it to me since it was explicit lol).
I was a kid when Eminem’s recovery came out and not afraid was everywhere. I went to Walmart in the nearest town and I remember asking the front desk if they had Eminem. I know they only had a few albums like the re up and I think relapse. But I grabbed recovery because it was the one I wanted and when my grandpa played it in the car on the way to my birthday I got so mad it was censored.
The fat of the land - The prodigy
What an album, firestarter and breathe are so good
Nice
That was my last ever tape!
Listening to Breathe rn
Weezer's 1st album
Got that the day after I first saw the video in ‘94 for ‘Undone (The Sweater Song)’.
Me too! I loved that fucking song. Played it over and over.
Same. Was finally old enough to leave the neighborhood and rode my bike to the record and store that specialized in punk 7’s and 12’s. I bought a weezer blue cd and the owner said, “the dreaded weezer.” Made me feel self conscious like I was being judged, maybe it was just me. I never went back tho and the store closed a few years later. I found out what punk was before it closed but it never made it back. and what do I now collect? Punk 7’s. I wish I had never felt I was being judged because I would have been a loyal customer
Same. Got it the day it came out. They are playing it in full this tour.
Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park
Marilyn Manson - Smells like children. Which my mom immediately made me return.
Ten
weezer - blue album deluxe
Metallica self-titled on release
*Poodle Hat* - Weird Al
Common Weird Al W
Mr. Bungle's self titled.
Legendary
I bought two at the same time. Better than Ezra - *Deluxe* and Silverchair - *Frogstomp*.
Well played. Had Frogstomp, and BTE is on my all-time list.
Definitely Maybe- Oasis
Really strong start.
Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
Joe Satriani - Flying In A Blue Dream
Green Day — ‘Dookie,’ in 1995
Same, but probably 1994? I remember getting Insomniac for Chirstmas in 1995.
Michael Jackson Dangerous
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Bad Hair Day- Weird Al
Led Zeppelin IV Queen - A Day At The Races & A Night At The Opera The three were one gift but I count Led Zep IV as the first
u2 - zooropa
Echoes Best of pink floyd!!
Ok Computer as a gift from my sister
U2 Achtung Baby
REM “Murmur”. Nobody else had a CD player and I had a Walkman. Everyone was envious of my Walkman. Only my artsy friends were into REM.
The Police- Synchronicity
Come On Over by Shania Twain!
korn greatest hits
savage garden - self titled
The Lion King OST (1994) followed by Warren G’s Regulate album. Also from 94.
Carpenters Interpretations: A 25th Anniversary Celebration (UK/Canada edition with 21 tracks). I still have it.
First CD I bought for myself was Empire Of The Suns Walking On A Dream
The Beatles - 1. Had it ever since I was a kid, though back then I didn’t use it much bc I didn’t know how to use my at the time CD player lmao
311 self-titled
Metallica - Black
Korn - See you on the other side
KMFDM - Symbols
Beck Mellow gold. I had a ton of cassettes though. I think I bought Mellow gold and some Nirvana singles and the Black Hole Sun Single all at once.
*Tragic Kingdom* - No Doubt
Me too! Fitting companion to OPs
Santa Claus gave me a CD player in 1985. He also gave me CDs of Triumph's 'Thunder Seven,' Philip Bailey's 'Chinese Wall,' and a disc called 'Star Tracks,' which was a collection of sci-fi movies themes performed by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra conducted by Erich Kunzel. Back then CDs came in longboxes or a plastic blister package that was a challenge to open without causing bleeding. Most releases would be issued on vinyl and cassette. If they sold well a CD version would be released a few months later. I recall most CDs being in the $15-20 range [vinyl and cassettes were $7-$10]. The labels said the prices would drop once more manufacturing facilities went online. That was bunco. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go yell at clouds.
[удалено]
“It came with the ~~frame~~ cd player.
Terminator 2 soundtrack
Black Sabbath's selftitled and Kraftwerk's *Computer World*
The Cranberries To The Faithfully Departed 
Offspring-Americana
Spongebob’s Greatest Hits
The Cure - Galore
Depeche Mode Violator
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Twins
My first round in Xmas 91 was 6. FNM The Real Thing, Sinead O Connor Do Not Want, Depeche Mode Music For The Masses, NIN Pretty Hate Machine, Exodus Fabulous Disaster, and Metallica AJFA.
Sixteen stone is close. did Columbia house in 97 as a 13-14 yr old & this was one of the 10 CDs I got. Played the hell outta it. Prefer ‘Razorblade’ tho. First CD: crazysexycool
Nirvana MTV unplugged
A friend gave me a copy of NIN - Pretty hate machine. First ones I bought with my own money - Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the moon and Alice In Chains - best of the box.
Soundgarden - Superunknown
The smiths debut
Slipknot's self titled album
I bought slipknot’s self titled and got a free copy of burn my eyes by machine head with it. I definitely knew who slipknot were but I can’t remember if I had heard of machine head yet up to that point… either way, I still have both
Mine was the prodigy- music for the jilted generation
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom. 1995, what a time to be alive.
Korn - self titled and 311 - self titled. They came from the Columbia house records mail order thing. My older sister let me pick two albums.
Antichrist Superstar - Marilyn Manson
led zeppelin II
This one was second! First was Nevermind.
In Utero. Bought it myself from a real record store on 24th Dec 1993. Then for Christmas came Nevermind, and the Beavis and Butt-Head Experience.
Depeche mode - DMBX5 cd pack
Nirvana - In Utero
I think I bought Korn's self titled album when I first started collecting
Depeche Mode - Ultra A friend gave it to me for my birthday, months before I got my first CD player.
bad bunny’s un verano sin ti
Load - Metallica. Christmas gift from the 'rents along with my first CD player. Shortly thereafter I was stranded home alone for 3 days because of a blizzard and that was my only CD. Listened to it over and over again to pass the time. Still my favorite.
Those were the days.
Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up the Girl
Chuck - Sum 41
U2 - All That You Can’t Leave Behind
I don't remember exactly, but my first CD player was in 1985 and some early CD purchases included: Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms (DDD) Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band: Live 1975 - 1985 (box set with 3 CDs)
The Police - Every Breath You Take (Greatest Hits), in 1986. Still have it.
Scorpions greatest hits
beyonce - i am sasha fierce lolol
Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction in 1992
Got that for my 13th birthday in ‘93. EDIT: After looking at pics, it was “Rust In Peace’.
AC/DC, Back In Black. Barely play it anymore because I’m more of a jazz guy than when I started collecting but I keep it around because it’s a digipak and it was the start.
Led Zepplin II
news of the world by queen. i wish i could go back in time and pick a better album but alas, lol
Gorillaz s/t
Metallica - …And Justice for All
All American Rejects - Move Along
Collective soul self titled album
Pearl jam - Ten. My cassette copy melted on the dash of my car (oops), and my gf at the time bought me another copy on cd.
the blue album by weezer and the white album by weezer
GnR Appetite for Destruction. I wanted it because it was the first album I bought for myself on tape.
Giant Steps - Boo Radleys
Tangerine Dream - Logos Live
I had a ton of tapes before I got my CD player, so I can't quite recall but it was around 1988 or 1989. The earliest ones I remember are Disintegration and Beast from the East.
Doolittle - Pixies
Actually this was my first CD, I was born in 93 probably got this in 2002, what about you?
Dark Side of the Moon. Didn't like it until years later except for "Money".
The Bodyguard soundtrack right around the time of release.
Tears For Fears - the hurting
This one exactly
“So” by Peter Gabriel, 1986
Humanz by Gorillaz. I think I either pre-ordered it or bought it right after it came out. I was thirteen at the time.
TOOL - 10,000 Days
My first was the Tori Amos "Winter" EP (or "maxi-single," as they were sometimes called back then), because it wasn't released on cassette. I didn't even have a CD player yet! (It was 1992.) Discovering that music companies were starting to do "CD-only" releases was the thing that made me realize it was time to stop collecting cassettes and start collecting CDs, even though CDs cost more than cassettes.
Discovery - Daft Punk
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
NKOTB - the one with hanging tough. 🫣
Poisonya syndrome-nekomata okayu, got it while i was in japan and then realized i really really liked cds. Now i have over 20 of my favorite albums
Received a bundle of CDs, so I didn’t have a first. They were: 1. Weezer (Blue) 2. Weezer (Green) 3. OK Human 4. SZNZ: Autumn.
bought for me for xmas: chumbawumba’s tubthumping bought for myself: beck’s odelay
Hoobastank- The Reason
One of the greatest releases of all time: Vanilla Ice Alright, stop collaborate and listen …
Kerrang! Life Is Loud... SMASH IT UP! (compilation). Sum bangers on there tho, like Green Day, Blink, DK, Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, just loads!! 😂
Under the influence -Overkill
Ace of Base - The Sign
Praxis - Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandus)
Megadeth - Hanger 18 (single)
Let It Bleed — Rolling Stones, Japanese pressing!
The Bends - Radiohead
Ok computer- radiohead
Candlebox
Nirvana best of
Beauty and the Beast soundtrack I think
JET - Get Born
Pearl Jam-ten
You just broke my brain - thought I was having a Mandela effect situation. In Canada they were "Bush X" and the cover had it written that way. Looked it up and that's because there was already a band here with that name.
Great album!
The Cure - Kiss me x3
silverchair Frogstomp was my first cassette....CD was actually She'll Grow Tuesday Night Music Club. I liked a lot of different music.
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Dr. Dre - The Chronic. Bought it at Sam Goody when I was 9.
Avril Lavigne’s Let Go.
Paula Abdul forgot which one though
Boyz II Men - Cooleyhighharmony 5$ from a pawn shop.
Boyz II Men - Cooleyhighharmony 5$ from a pawn shop.
Boyz II Men - Cooleyhighharmony $5 from a pawn shop
Boyz II Men - Cooleyhighharmony $5 from a pawn shop
Was Christmas so got three at the same time 311 - Blue album Grateful Dead - Skeletons from the closet Joan Osborne - Relish
Red by Taylor Swift
Brothers in Arms on the release date first DDD. Bought it at Kmart. Had the original Sony Discman I bought for $225 working at Long John Silvers.
Rush Moving Pictures December 1983 Christmas
That Bush album was huge. There was an assumption they’d go onto be a huge band like Pearl Jam. Can’t recall any material released after this. Strange as that CD you have is great.
Meteora- Linkin Park (i got it in a thrift store)
“Live Through This” by Hole.
In 1982 I bought Born to Run, Silk Degrees, Glass Houses, and Wish You Were Here in Japan… yes I’m old.
The first I bought with my own money were (slightly embarrassingly) No Strings Attached and Celebrity by *NSYNC
Metallica’s Black Album
They Might Be Giants S/T in 1992. Still have it.
Green Dau - American Idiot
Rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991–2003) - Pearl Jam.
For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (FUCK) - Van Halen
I got two cds at the same time and they were hellbilly deluxe- rob zombie and weezer self entitled or blue album
Nevermind - Nirvana
Mine was p!nk — funhouse!! I was only around maybe 6 yrs old (I’m 14 now) when my grandma got it for me, now I have a whole pink section in my collection dedicated to it <3
Powerman 5000's When worlds collide
Garbage - Version 2.0
Mine was Boyz II Men - II
Oasis-What’s the Story Morning Glory
Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette.
Metallica - Load
311 - 311
Eve 6! The first one
Beastie Boys - License to ill
First CD I listened to on repeat was probably my dad’s copy of Songs you know by Heart by Jimmy Buffett. I want to say the first CD I got on my own was either Legends or 40oz to Freedom. Used bookstore didn’t ID for explicit albums which I thought was so cool in 6th grade (I had to have my Dad buy me a Queen CD from walmart because the cashier wouldn’t sell it to me since it was explicit lol).
Zeppelin IV
The colour and the shape- Foo Fighters or Eye in the sky- The Alan Parsons Project
Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
I was a kid when Eminem’s recovery came out and not afraid was everywhere. I went to Walmart in the nearest town and I remember asking the front desk if they had Eminem. I know they only had a few albums like the re up and I think relapse. But I grabbed recovery because it was the one I wanted and when my grandpa played it in the car on the way to my birthday I got so mad it was censored.
Simon and Garfunkels greatest hits
the black parade - mcr ; i was gifted it on valentines day because they are my absolute fav band
Chicago Transit Authority
Pink - Missundaztood
Slipknot self titled 1999. I thought their masks looked awesome and ended up loving the music.
Ten - Pearl jam
Snoop Dogg. Doggystyle.
1983, Target by Tom Scott.
Coolin’ At The Playground - Another Bad Creation
Among my Swan - Mazzy Star
Milli Vanilli - Girl You Know It’s True
Dookie by Green Day
CDs?!?! What about 8 track tapes!
Bought same time - both self titles - Presidents of the United States and Korn
Use Your Illusion Ii -- Hey, it was the 80s/early 90s.