Your first record or CD?
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Your first record or CD?
Good article on the BBC in light of the near demise of HMV, and therefore all high street record shop chains, thinking back on the place of purchase of your first record or CD.
HMV, Our Price, Virgin: The place where you bought your first CD
What was the first CD or record (or 8 track
) you bought and where did you buy it from?
My first album (LP - vinyl) was Rattus Norvegicus by The Stranglers and my first single (7" vinyl) was Picture This by Blondie both bought from Woolworths in Gravesend. The first single I owned was Bohemian Rhaposdy a year or two earlier, but my Mum bought me that so it doesn't count
HMV, Our Price, Virgin: The place where you bought your first CD
What was the first CD or record (or 8 track
) you bought and where did you buy it from?My first album (LP - vinyl) was Rattus Norvegicus by The Stranglers and my first single (7" vinyl) was Picture This by Blondie both bought from Woolworths in Gravesend. The first single I owned was Bohemian Rhaposdy a year or two earlier, but my Mum bought me that so it doesn't count
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Dexy's Midnight Runners, Come on Eileen.
I don't give a **** what anyone say's it's still a good song!
Bought from Woolies on a Saturday morning with my pocket money.
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Dexy's Midnight Runners, Come on Eileen.
I don't give a **** what anyone say's it's still a good song!
Bought from Woolies on a Saturday morning with my pocket money.
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1979, bought Are Friends Electric by Gary Numan and Turning Japanese by The Vapours, together at the same time. Trembling with excitement to get home i was. Those were the days.
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First Single Nik Kershaw - Radio Musicola/L.A.B.A.T.Y.D, 10p in the school summer jumble sale.
First Album was Cyndi Lauper - A Night to Remember, bought from John Menzies in Oban.
First Album was Cyndi Lauper - A Night to Remember, bought from John Menzies in Oban.
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'Sister Jane' by New World (it's, er, cr4p) was my first 45 in around 1972, and I suspect a Beatles record in the 1970s as my first LP, but I can't remember which one now.
Always a battle between J S Bach and Heinrich Schutz these days though. How my tastes have changed!
Always a battle between J S Bach and Heinrich Schutz these days though. How my tastes have changed!
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My old man gave me Pink Floyds 'The Wall' on cassette. Hated it at the time, and used to sit there studying the parents vinyl, a lot of Beatles and Stones. My favourite was the 'Magical Mystery Tour' EP with the book.
*love Floyd now, and have done since just a few years after he gave me the tape!
*love Floyd now, and have done since just a few years after he gave me the tape!
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I don't remember what the first anything I bought was.
My first cd was a Xmas present and it was Now 23 or 27.
I remember having Pet Shop Boys on cassette before that though I think.
My first cd was a Xmas present and it was Now 23 or 27.
I remember having Pet Shop Boys on cassette before that though I think.
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1st Record I owned was "John Inman - Teddy Bear's pick-nick".
1st one I bought .... from Woolworths was "Joe Dolce - Shuddapa your face"
Still got them both somewhere in a box - nothing to play them on though, lol
1st one I bought .... from Woolworths was "Joe Dolce - Shuddapa your face"
Still got them both somewhere in a box - nothing to play them on though, lol
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A tape of Elvis no. 1s to go with my first portable cassette player. It wasn't a Walkman, Walkmans had a rewind button. Bought with my mother at Estover Asda in Plymouth for 99p which was five weeks pocket money at 20p a week. I was seven I think and the first track was Heartbreak Hotel. I can remember being in the music section and selecting it and Mum being surprised at my choice. An hour later I was jumping around my bedroom to All Shook Up. Magic! 
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A tape of Elvis no. 1s to go with my first portable cassette player. It wasn't a Walkman, Walkmans had a rewind button. Bought with my mother at Estover Asda in Plymouth for 99p which was five weeks pocket money at 20p a week. I was seven I think and the first track was Heartbreak Hotel. I can remember being in the music section and selecting it and Mum being surprised at my choice. An hour later I was jumping around my bedroom to All Shook Up. Magic!
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- sorry, I just had to point that out) got to number 3 with Turning Japanese... a song about masturbation so the story goes. Great track 
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One of the maddest TOTP performances ever I seem to remember!
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at 8 years old i bought pink floyd the wall,first single record out of pocket money.
first album to be bought on tape aged around 10 was frankie goes to hollywood welcome to the pleasuredome.
faves still to date though are yazoo(alison moyets voice UNREAL)
and my well known guilty pleasure is Adam and the Ants.
first album to be bought on tape aged around 10 was frankie goes to hollywood welcome to the pleasuredome.
faves still to date though are yazoo(alison moyets voice UNREAL)
and my well known guilty pleasure is Adam and the Ants.