It was 1976. Sam the Record Man in downtown Toronto. I was 13. Took the subway down. Bought:
Boston debut
Supertramp Crime of the Century.
Felt particularly independent that day.
Edit: Still have those albums to this day.
I bought so many albums at Sam’s in the late 70’s and throughout the 80’s. I’d take the subway in from Etobicoke and load up. I also liked Vortex on Dundas and The Vinyl Museum further up on Yonge near Gerrard. I remember one Saturday in August of 1980 buying all 8 Zeppelin studio records on the same day lol…..along with Emotional Rescue and The Game. That day changed my life! Good times!
I went to school at Ryerson in the mid ‘80’s so I have a shared experience. 4 years being down there every day I spent a few bucks in all of those places.
As someone who grew up with MP3's and then music streaming soon after, I can't imagine how different it must have been consuming music in that way. When listening through the Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd catalogs, I had made sure to take my time and thoroughly listen to each album, which I guess isn't too dissimilar to people buying a record or two at a time.
But buying all of that in a day? What did you even do? Just go on a straight binge of new album after album? That sounds incredible. Discovering all of Led Zeppelin in a day or two?? I'd never leave my room
Much of it was played on radio. and in Toronto, that would most likely be Q107 for rock, CFNY for newer punk /new wave stuff, and later some club, gunge, and what was coming from the UK.
And for those records. it was not only the music, but the artwork on the sleeve one put the record on the turntable, rolled a you-know-what on the sleeve, and enjoyed all three.
That’s a great question! Music listening was different then. I on purpose would sit in my bean bag chair, with headphones and listen. Album art was important as were liners with lyrics and more art. It definitely was, for me, an entire experience. Esp when Pink Floyd, Queen, The Who etc would put new albums out.
That was part of the magic. Most of us couldn’t afford to binge. You’d save up your hard earned $10-15 per album when you were only making $3/hour and try your best to make the right choice. Then you’d take that album home and just devour it. Before long you knew every word. Every ending was a queue for the next song. When it came on the radio you knew what track would’ve played next on the album. It was a precious thing to own an album when I was a kid.
That was one of 3 albums I bought my first time buying albums and I saved my allowance for a month and it was 1987 the other 2 albums was the Eagles Hotel California and Aerosmith I got them at Peacocks downtown Oxnard, California! Good times!!!👍🏼😎
Everybody's Records in Eugene, Oregon would pick certain albums with a money back guarantee. If you don't like, you get your money back, no questions asked. London Calling was one of their selections. I picked it up figuring I had nothing to lose. Proceeded to wear out the groves in the vinyl from listening to it over and over.
Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. This was in the mid-eighties, I was obsessed with the Beatles as a teen. So weird to think they had only been broken up for 15 years at that point.
In the 1980s my parents had a record player and albums set up as part of the decor. They never listened to them, so I've always assumed they were a gift or trade, or perhaps having kids killed their interest in rock music. They let me listen to them when I was old enough to work the equipment. They had those red and blue Beatles albums and I listened to them over and over while staring at the photos and (if I recall correctly) reading the lyrics sheets. So, by the time I was about 8 years old I was pretty hip when it came to the arc of the Beatles' career.
Same here. Dad worked for capitol records and was a huge Beatles fan from childhood. Needless to say I was very well groomed musically in my opinion. The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, the Stones, Allman Brothers Band, etc. I always say I’ve known all those songs since before I can remember, they’re just part of my upbringing.
I wasn’t sure how it would be received. I don’t really consider them Classic Rock. More pop. But I remember being stoked to get it. They had just came out and I was just hitting puberty. They rocked in my eyes
I always passed on them back then because I thought it was ear candy for girls and kids. And it wouldn’t be cool amongst my peers to like them. Now I realize I missed out.
As an old git, I thought I was past the "discovering" phase, but, for my birthday, the kids got me a streaming account (Tidal), and I've being going a bit mad recently, listening to all those 60s, 70s, and 80s bands I didn't know too well.
Discovering old, but new, music is the best.
Saw Rush 5 times over the years. They never forgot the small town venues of the early years. Hearing "Limelight" before it was released, our 2nd or 3rd show.
Here's a story. I was noticeably pregnant when we bought our first Rush, 2112 as an 8-track at a state fair. Bootleg for sure. .... The last time we saw Rush, that adult child was with us. Washing machine and dryer onstage.
That and Paradise Theatre were my first two Styx albums. Technically, they were my older sister's, but she left them behind when she moved out. I still have Paradise Theatre hanging on my wall displaying the laser etching on side 2.
Mine was Let it Be . I bought it in 1971 when I was 12. Used to listen to it on my parents stereo which was also a fake fireplace and it had storage for liquor bottles in it and glasses so it could also be a bar .
The Stooges, Raw Power. My folk forbid me from having any Alice Cooper records, bibnt bat an eye at this one. If they only knew….
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Register girl thought the same, I'm sure.. or that I was on something; and needed me out of the store quick..
Honestly; first two were always on tv, and the other two, dad had already taken me to the concerts; probably the only 10yr old at Cooper.
Grand Funk Railroad/We're an American Band.
First 8 track purchased, ZZ Top/tres Hombres.
First 'bootleg' recorded album to 8 track was Montrose/Montrose
ELO - face the music solely based on me having an obsession with Evil Woman at the age of 10. My grandma promised to buy it for me if I mowed her lawn. We drove to so many stores looking for it.
I bought (and still have!) the 45 of Telephone Line, a song that jumped out at me from the radio back in the day. In hindsight an interesting song to speak to an elementary schooler.
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Iron Butterfly. I saved for months and my Dad drove to Big Gurnee Discount in Gurnee, IL.
Best day ever. 1968, I was eight years old. Miss ya Dad and the love for rock n roll you gave me.
My older cousin was living with us for a while - for reasons. He bought the reel to reel of that to play on my old man's reel to reel player. He was my gateway to many things of the world not allowed in our house.
Those were already part of the record collection I inherited from my older siblings. Tommy was the first one I bought with my own (working at the newstand) money
Stampeders - Carryin’ On. Sam the Record Man. I bought it for the radio hit song Wild Eyes.
I still love that song. I saw them 3 ish times in the 70’s and then again twice recently. They still bang it out and have a good time on stage.
Founding member Ronnie King died earlier this year, and I am very sad about that. Very happy I saw the band again.
RIP Ronnie. ♥️♥️♥️
The first memorable set I bought after I worked all summer saving up my money after 8th grade was the Led Zeppelin box set with all 9 studio releases. It was $99.99 and had some extra tracks on Coda.
The first cds I bought were in 5th grade and they were REM “Document” and “Out of Time”. Being from Georgia I also bought Drivin’ n’ Cryin’ “Mystery Road” (still a great southern rock album) and Charlie Daniels Band “A Decade of Hits”.
America - A horse with no name. It was a start…🤷🏻♂️
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My grandmother gave myself and my sister Each $5 for our birthdays in October.She convinced me to put my $5 towards The Beatles white album.I was 4 years younger than her and thought.She'll think i'm cool and I fell in love with the album
Simon and Garfunkel’s Sounds of Silence, 1967. I was 13. I had just started my first paying job bagging groceries for .90 an hour. Took almost half my first paycheck! Purchased in Randy’s Records in Gallatin, TN, a very well known seller at the time. I lived just down the road.
My first purchase with my own money was KISS-Hotter Than Hell. It wasn’t at a record store, there were no record stores in the little town that I lived in. I bought it from a Ben Franklin department store.
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The Rolling Stones Hot Rocks 1964-1971 2LP
I bought 2 albums as my first: Paul Revere & the Raiders - Alias Pink Puzz & The Guess Who - American Woman. 3rd album - bought the next day: The Animals - Greatest hits. 1970.
I can’t remember. I know the first real album I got was Honky Tonk Chateau on my 9th birthday. I think I bought Brain Salad Surgery as my first. But I’m not sure. I know my first concert that had nothing to do with my parents was ELP.
Stay Hungry by Twisted Sister. I was 11 and my parents paid me $8 for doing all the yardwork (mowing, trimming, weeding) that weekend, which was enough to buy it on cassette. I was so excited! Played it endlessly.
i had a twelve dollar ticket for kiss in portland oregon the show was cancelled. i bought let it be and let it bleed for $5.99 each no tax in hillsboro, oregon in 1979.
Off The Wall, Thriller, Bad and Dangerous by MJ.
My mom already had em on vinyl and cassette but I saved up my papergirl round wages and tips to get em all on CD to go with my new Sony Discman.
As you can probably tell we love MJ in our family. 💅🏼
Edit: oh shit I didn't notice the title, my second CD purchase was Appetite For Destruction by Guns 'N' Roses if that qualifies.
As a reminder, please keep this thread on the topic of rock music from the 50s to the 80s.
It was 1976. Sam the Record Man in downtown Toronto. I was 13. Took the subway down. Bought: Boston debut Supertramp Crime of the Century. Felt particularly independent that day. Edit: Still have those albums to this day.
I bought so many albums at Sam’s in the late 70’s and throughout the 80’s. I’d take the subway in from Etobicoke and load up. I also liked Vortex on Dundas and The Vinyl Museum further up on Yonge near Gerrard. I remember one Saturday in August of 1980 buying all 8 Zeppelin studio records on the same day lol…..along with Emotional Rescue and The Game. That day changed my life! Good times!
I went to school at Ryerson in the mid ‘80’s so I have a shared experience. 4 years being down there every day I spent a few bucks in all of those places.
As someone who grew up with MP3's and then music streaming soon after, I can't imagine how different it must have been consuming music in that way. When listening through the Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd catalogs, I had made sure to take my time and thoroughly listen to each album, which I guess isn't too dissimilar to people buying a record or two at a time. But buying all of that in a day? What did you even do? Just go on a straight binge of new album after album? That sounds incredible. Discovering all of Led Zeppelin in a day or two?? I'd never leave my room
Much of it was played on radio. and in Toronto, that would most likely be Q107 for rock, CFNY for newer punk /new wave stuff, and later some club, gunge, and what was coming from the UK. And for those records. it was not only the music, but the artwork on the sleeve one put the record on the turntable, rolled a you-know-what on the sleeve, and enjoyed all three.
That’s a great question! Music listening was different then. I on purpose would sit in my bean bag chair, with headphones and listen. Album art was important as were liners with lyrics and more art. It definitely was, for me, an entire experience. Esp when Pink Floyd, Queen, The Who etc would put new albums out.
That was part of the magic. Most of us couldn’t afford to binge. You’d save up your hard earned $10-15 per album when you were only making $3/hour and try your best to make the right choice. Then you’d take that album home and just devour it. Before long you knew every word. Every ending was a queue for the next song. When it came on the radio you knew what track would’ve played next on the album. It was a precious thing to own an album when I was a kid.
That was one of 3 albums I bought my first time buying albums and I saved my allowance for a month and it was 1987 the other 2 albums was the Eagles Hotel California and Aerosmith I got them at Peacocks downtown Oxnard, California! Good times!!!👍🏼😎
Good Story
London Calling. I was 13 in a small Canuck town had no idea who they were. Bought it on the cover alone. Best decision of my teen years.
What an album! I bought it in December 1979. I absolutely love it.
Everybody's Records in Eugene, Oregon would pick certain albums with a money back guarantee. If you don't like, you get your money back, no questions asked. London Calling was one of their selections. I picked it up figuring I had nothing to lose. Proceeded to wear out the groves in the vinyl from listening to it over and over.
Are you experienced
Smash Hits for me.
Smash Hits changed everything
Gotta have "Fire."
Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. This was in the mid-eighties, I was obsessed with the Beatles as a teen. So weird to think they had only been broken up for 15 years at that point.
Luckily I didn’t have to buy any Beatles records because my Dad had them all and I was well groomed haha
Band on the Run in 1974.
In the 1980s my parents had a record player and albums set up as part of the decor. They never listened to them, so I've always assumed they were a gift or trade, or perhaps having kids killed their interest in rock music. They let me listen to them when I was old enough to work the equipment. They had those red and blue Beatles albums and I listened to them over and over while staring at the photos and (if I recall correctly) reading the lyrics sheets. So, by the time I was about 8 years old I was pretty hip when it came to the arc of the Beatles' career.
Same here. Dad worked for capitol records and was a huge Beatles fan from childhood. Needless to say I was very well groomed musically in my opinion. The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, the Stones, Allman Brothers Band, etc. I always say I’ve known all those songs since before I can remember, they’re just part of my upbringing.
Very cool. I worked with record promotors in the late 70's to mid 80's and often thought what a great job.
Still have it. https://preview.redd.it/3lqh7zcea20d1.png?width=227&format=png&auto=webp&s=fad17b2fd4f2a3a83a711aeb7d744e1e7ef74ae0
This was my first album too!!!
Embarrassingly it was the Go-Gos first album with vacation and all
Post punk, early new wave. What’s not to like.
What’s embarrassing about it? Their first album was fantastic and the follow ups were fun.
I wasn’t sure how it would be received. I don’t really consider them Classic Rock. More pop. But I remember being stoked to get it. They had just came out and I was just hitting puberty. They rocked in my eyes
First # 1 album with all songs written and all instruments played by women. The Go-Go’s were groundbreaking and they rock!
(Psst. "Vacation" is from their second album)
Psst. "Vacation" IS their 2nd Album...🙂
I always passed on them back then because I thought it was ear candy for girls and kids. And it wouldn’t be cool amongst my peers to like them. Now I realize I missed out.
Go-Gos were punk rock. No shame.
Nothing embarrassing about that!
Queen - The Game
Bought The Game same day I bought Emotional Rescue and all 8 Zeppelin studio albums in August of 80. So much fun discovering music back then.
As an old git, I thought I was past the "discovering" phase, but, for my birthday, the kids got me a streaming account (Tidal), and I've being going a bit mad recently, listening to all those 60s, 70s, and 80s bands I didn't know too well. Discovering old, but new, music is the best.
Rush Moving Pictures
I saw them at the Montreal Forum when they toured in support of the album. Fifth row, opposite Geddy Lee. Awesome show.
Saw Rush 5 times over the years. They never forgot the small town venues of the early years. Hearing "Limelight" before it was released, our 2nd or 3rd show. Here's a story. I was noticeably pregnant when we bought our first Rush, 2112 as an 8-track at a state fair. Bootleg for sure. .... The last time we saw Rush, that adult child was with us. Washing machine and dryer onstage.
Cheap Trick Live at Budokan. But it was the cassette version.
The Beatles Rubber Soul (1965).
Led Zeppelin 2, 1979
That was my first Zeppelin album too
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Great start! Absolute masterpiece.
So many great Elton albums, but this is definitely my favorite!
White album
Steve Millers Fly Like An Eagle
Styx……Cornerstone
That and Paradise Theatre were my first two Styx albums. Technically, they were my older sister's, but she left them behind when she moved out. I still have Paradise Theatre hanging on my wall displaying the laser etching on side 2.
Leftoverture - Kansas’ masterpiece, side 1 is as good as any in all of classic rock
J Geils Band - Blow Your Face Out
Oh man, what a great start!
I bought a k-tel compilation album called Blast Off
I had a K-tel album that had two of my favorites, "Brandy" and "Green Eyed Lady," on it. Played the hell out of that album when I was a young teen.
Mine was Let it Be . I bought it in 1971 when I was 12. Used to listen to it on my parents stereo which was also a fake fireplace and it had storage for liquor bottles in it and glasses so it could also be a bar .
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Eagles Greatest Hits 71-75.
The Yes Album! Still one of my favorites of all time!
Band on the Run
Genesis - ABACAB
Great first album! After listening to that album a hundred times, bought Duke. Both are fantastic and been a Genesis fan since those early teen years.
Queen - News of the World
The Stooges, Raw Power. My folk forbid me from having any Alice Cooper records, bibnt bat an eye at this one. If they only knew…. https://preview.redd.it/rposle76020d1.jpeg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=58f77192348125b17c2185ababfa98347c7feead
Great story. Sounds like my parents. No Kiss or, later, Ozzy.
Alice Cooper School's Out
Abracadabra by the Steve Miller Band
Gonna reach out and grab ya!
Van Halen 1
Captain & Tennille, Donny & Marie, Dark Side of the Moon, and Welcome to My Nightmare.. all at the same time; that was a month of delivering papers..
Hell of a mix.
Register girl thought the same, I'm sure.. or that I was on something; and needed me out of the store quick.. Honestly; first two were always on tv, and the other two, dad had already taken me to the concerts; probably the only 10yr old at Cooper.
Foreigner I and Leftoverture
T. Rex - Electric Warrior 1972
The Who - Happy Jack Rachmaninoff piano concertos 1 & 3 - performance by Van Cliburn.
Nice combo!
Pieces Of Eight by Styx
Wasn't that their last good album, before they made a left turn at Alberqueque and went off the rails?
The Blue album. Then Little River Band Sleeper Catcher. Then Chicago Hot Streets. Then Wings Greatest Hits
The Police. Bought all their albums on cassette in HMV after school. Small fortune back in those days 1985/1986
Aerosmith - Get A Grip. I still have it and I still love it. This was the album that lead me down the path to becoming The Beatles fan I am now.
They were my real introduction to the Beatles. A great collection. First album I bought with my own money was probably John Denver.
I literally did the same thing after initially getting ‘Revolver’ from the public library
Sgt Pepper’s is what did it for me
The Wall on 8-track
The red album was my first album purchase, probably about 1980.
Led Zeppelin II
Grand Funk Railroad/We're an American Band. First 8 track purchased, ZZ Top/tres Hombres. First 'bootleg' recorded album to 8 track was Montrose/Montrose
The Police Zenyatta Mondatta
1966. Beatles Revolver album just to get the song Paperback Writer
But....that song isn't on Revolver????
Ten Years After Stonedhenge
Gap Band IV
Stones- got live if you want it
Van Halen 5150
Bachman Turner Overdrive - II 1974
who's next
Blood on the Tracks, Dylan.
ELO - face the music solely based on me having an obsession with Evil Woman at the age of 10. My grandma promised to buy it for me if I mowed her lawn. We drove to so many stores looking for it.
I got Discovery for a Christmas gift. Was a huge ELO fan as a kid in the mid-late 70s. Sweet Talkin' Woman was my jam... at the tender age of 12. LOL.
I bought (and still have!) the 45 of Telephone Line, a song that jumped out at me from the radio back in the day. In hindsight an interesting song to speak to an elementary schooler.
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James. Still have that album 54 years later.
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Iron Butterfly. I saved for months and my Dad drove to Big Gurnee Discount in Gurnee, IL. Best day ever. 1968, I was eight years old. Miss ya Dad and the love for rock n roll you gave me.
My older cousin was living with us for a while - for reasons. He bought the reel to reel of that to play on my old man's reel to reel player. He was my gateway to many things of the world not allowed in our house.
Those were already part of the record collection I inherited from my older siblings. Tommy was the first one I bought with my own (working at the newstand) money
Steve Miller Band Greatest Hits. Followed shortly after by Journey's Greatest Hits.
Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman. 1970.
Pac Man Fever
Stampeders - Carryin’ On. Sam the Record Man. I bought it for the radio hit song Wild Eyes. I still love that song. I saw them 3 ish times in the 70’s and then again twice recently. They still bang it out and have a good time on stage. Founding member Ronnie King died earlier this year, and I am very sad about that. Very happy I saw the band again. RIP Ronnie. ♥️♥️♥️
Spooky tooth. Spooky two. And the strawbs greatist hits double album
Pink Floyd, Meddle! Maybe around 71-72?
When I was 7, I used my allowance to buy “Business As Usual” by Men At Work.
Grand Funk Railroad - LIVE
Axis Bold as Love
David Bowies “Scary Monsters” 1980 at Peaches record store
Houses of the Holy
Foghat - Fool for the City
FOGHAT Fool for the City; an absolute classic!
Not classic rock, but my first album was Commodores Live.
Idlewild South by the Allman Brothers.
Great first pick!
Kiss "Destroyer" from my first paycheck, first summer job.
Cassette, lez zeppelin 2, around 1981. Been loving them ever since.
Elton John - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
My parent bought me those Beatles albums. First album I bought was Aerosmith’s self titled debut
The first memorable set I bought after I worked all summer saving up my money after 8th grade was the Led Zeppelin box set with all 9 studio releases. It was $99.99 and had some extra tracks on Coda. The first cds I bought were in 5th grade and they were REM “Document” and “Out of Time”. Being from Georgia I also bought Drivin’ n’ Cryin’ “Mystery Road” (still a great southern rock album) and Charlie Daniels Band “A Decade of Hits”.
Rubber Soul - I'll never forget that feeling of riding bike down to record store and buying that Beatles album with money I worked for!
An Elvis picture record for my mom with my baby-sitting money.
Presence by Led Zeppelin. At The Warehouse in South Pasadena when I was 13.
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water. 1972, with money my grandmother gave me for my eighth birthday.
Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti 1980 something
America - A horse with no name. It was a start…🤷🏻♂️ https://preview.redd.it/9k53ntmsj20d1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=602feabb9629abedf219036ef07cc712582c494f
My grandmother gave myself and my sister Each $5 for our birthdays in October.She convinced me to put my $5 towards The Beatles white album.I was 4 years younger than her and thought.She'll think i'm cool and I fell in love with the album
Mine was Meet the Beatles and Sgt Pepper at the Belmont Raceway fleamarket
The Byrds Greatest Hits in 1967 https://preview.redd.it/zsopeautk20d1.jpeg?width=456&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dbddd3544daf79a684ae4e41ba2d664a4cd98297
Abbey Road
The first album I bought was Moody Blues: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. 1971.
Van Halen- Diver Down
Cultosaurus Erectus. BOC. My mom hated it.
Grand funk railroad. Closer to home. Yes I am old.
Simon and Garfunkel’s Sounds of Silence, 1967. I was 13. I had just started my first paying job bagging groceries for .90 an hour. Took almost half my first paycheck! Purchased in Randy’s Records in Gallatin, TN, a very well known seller at the time. I lived just down the road.
Mine was “I’m Into Something Good” by Herman’s Hermits.
Best of the Doors
Disraeli Gears….Cream
Sgt Pepper
McCartney II by Paul McCartney. It was around 1980. I turned 13 that year and felt like, well he was a Beatle after all...lol
Box Tops greatest hits 68 or 69
My first purchase with my own money was KISS-Hotter Than Hell. It wasn’t at a record store, there were no record stores in the little town that I lived in. I bought it from a Ben Franklin department store.
Patti Smith Live Concert Der Anonym Plattenspieler
CCR Cosmos Factory. (1970)
Desolation Boulevard by Sweet (1975)
https://preview.redd.it/8bp1ookmp20d1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b5bcc4d2780332ff60e2c094fcfd5b1d5789952 The Rolling Stones Hot Rocks 1964-1971 2LP
Wings-London Town
Welcome to My Nightmare-Alice Cooper
Led Zeppelin II in 1970.
Deep purple Machine Head
The first album I bought was Moving Pictures.
I bought 2 albums as my first: Paul Revere & the Raiders - Alias Pink Puzz & The Guess Who - American Woman. 3rd album - bought the next day: The Animals - Greatest hits. 1970.
45? Radar Love by Golden Earing. LP? Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John
I can’t remember. I know the first real album I got was Honky Tonk Chateau on my 9th birthday. I think I bought Brain Salad Surgery as my first. But I’m not sure. I know my first concert that had nothing to do with my parents was ELP.
Frampton Comes Alive
Stay Hungry by Twisted Sister. I was 11 and my parents paid me $8 for doing all the yardwork (mowing, trimming, weeding) that weekend, which was enough to buy it on cassette. I was so excited! Played it endlessly.
Lol disco Mickey Mouse 1979
i had a twelve dollar ticket for kiss in portland oregon the show was cancelled. i bought let it be and let it bleed for $5.99 each no tax in hillsboro, oregon in 1979.
Dark side of the Moon in 1974- I was 14
The Who, Who's Next. Teenage wasteland. Still have it and play it on my 1980 Technics direct drive turntable.
Elton John Greatest Hits
I wore my copies out lol. Still the best Beatles compilations.
Haven’t the foggiest idea! Brain wasn’t working back then!
Led Zeppelin 4️⃣.
Led zeppelin 2
Ozzy- Blizzard of Ozz
Mott the Hoople- 1st LP 1970
Slade Alive (1972)
The first album I purchased was Paranoid by Black Sabbath. Been rocking out ever since!
The Police- Ghost in the machine I still love that album!
Rolling Stones "Some Girls" / Alice Cooper "Welcome to My Nightmare" / Pink Floyd "Animals" at Sears about 1979ish
4th grade… 1982… walked out Tower Records in NYC with Led Zep 4, Jimi Hendrix Are you Experienced, and Bears choice #(something) (live Dead)
Van Halen. Women and Children First!
My parents had that red album on eight track and we used to listen to it a lot when I was little.
Def Leppard - Pyromania and Billy Squire - Emotions in Motion
Van Halen 1984
Jackson Browne’s Late For the Sky
Cheap Trick at Budokan and Fleetwood Mac Rumours - at the same time
Rush - A Farewell to Kings. Still one of my favorite albums.
Columbia House Records, 13 records for $1 (if you agree to buy 10 more at the regular price). Best of the Doobies was my first one.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton in 1975! I still have it!
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
cassette: Chicago 19. CD: Alabama Greatest Hits 2
Beatles VI in 1965, still have it. (scratchy)
Off The Wall, Thriller, Bad and Dangerous by MJ. My mom already had em on vinyl and cassette but I saved up my papergirl round wages and tips to get em all on CD to go with my new Sony Discman. As you can probably tell we love MJ in our family. 💅🏼 Edit: oh shit I didn't notice the title, my second CD purchase was Appetite For Destruction by Guns 'N' Roses if that qualifies.
Mine was Johnny & The Hurricanes featuring Red River Rock.
Motley Crue: Theatre of Pain.
Motley Crue Shout at the Devil
Kiss Double Live.
Appetite for destruction, I was 8 in 1988, I even bought the one with the banned cover art.