OK, we've been telling everyone what albums we've bought most recently, but I'd like to know what the first record you ever bought was.
Mine was a 45 RPM 7" single: The Beatles - I Feel Fine / She's A Woman shortly followed by the mono Lp "Beatlemania" which was the Canadian version of "With The Beatles". Back then a 45 cost 69 cents, and a mono album was about $2.50. If it was available in stereo and you could afford it (and had a stereo needle on your record player) you'd pay about $3.79 for the "High Fidelity" version. I feel like the grampa telling the story of when we used to walk 12 miles in the snow and ice to get to the corner store to buy a loaf of bread for 5 cents!
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The first albums I listened to were the first two albums from The Monkees. My first purchase was joining the Columbia record club and my first 11 were these (remember, doubles count as two!)
KISS - Destroyer KISS - Rock and Roll Over KISS - Alive Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive Monty Python - Live at City Center ELO - Ole ELO
and for my Dad I bought some Dick Clark double album of oldies. That was 1977, so bread was slightly more than a nickel
Let's see- the first music I ever chose and purchased for myself was on 45: Jo Jo Gunne- Where is the Show, followed by Black water by the Doobies First LP was was Chicago- Live at Carnegie Hall (four album set- very ambitious!) First Prog purchases- Duke and Relayer
For me the first record I was given was a 45 of "It's Still Rock & Roll To Me" from Billy Joel. The first album I actually bought myself was probably "Nursery Cryme" by Genesis at age 10.. although at the time I bought it expecting it to be another Invisible Touch. Needless to say, by the time I got to the hogweed I was done and affraid of old Genesis for years aftwerwards. It wasn't until the mid 90s that I started to really get into the PG era stuff.
Color me embarrassed, but it was the 1975 gem Black Bear Road by C.W. McCall with the ever so classic tune "Convoy". Hey, I was in elementary school at the time, and wanted to become a trucker.
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mmmmmmmm my 1st....i think....it was YES- 90125
