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 :lol1:

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Dexy's Midnight Runners, Come on Eileen. :D

I don't give a sh1t what anyone say's it's still a good song! :lol1:

Bought from Woolies on a Saturday morning with my pocket money. :)

First 7" single The Dickies - Bananna Splits (Yellow Vinyl)

First Album Cant remember ....Sooo Many





Mart

First single was baby d - let me be your fantasy.

Faith No More - Epic - from Woolworths in Lytham S.Annes in 1989, since then I must have owned over 10,000 records bought and sold over the years.

Oooh can I play please?! :D

I don't mind being laughed at.... alot!

My first 7" single in 1984 was Cyndi Lauper - 'Girls just wanna have fun' :thumb:

The first record I bought with my own money was - T-Rex's Metal Guru. I think it was 1972. Wow! that takes me back

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. :)

Coolio gangsters paradise

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.

I recently got hold of that again, quality music while tearing down a motorway with the volume up loud.. :lol1:

Two Cyndi Laupers within the first ten posts, that's got to be a bit of an anomoly :Suspiciou

Quality tune, made number one didn't it? I still have that very same record i bought. :smug:

my first 45 was david bowie- space oddity
my first 12" was - evaporate- altern 8

'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!

:thumb: Tis all about good taste ;)

My first CD was probably club land 10 or something like that

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!

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.

First album

Clash, Give 'Em' Enough Rope

Single, jimmy jimmy Undertones

virgin Records - Notting Hill Gate

My favourite offerings so far!!

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

Damn, I'm torn now!!

Musical Youth - Pass The Dutchie :D

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! :luxhello:

oooooofffft! :D

I know the place, right beside the Windmill! Funny how the ability to rewind was seen as a 'nice-to-have' isn't it?!!

Tel, The Vapors (minus the 'u' ;) - 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 :thumb:

At the time it was great, subsequent over exposure has made it the laughing stock many see it as today, but you're right ... it's basically a good pop song!

No laughing here, a great record from a great artist :thumb: One of the maddest TOTP performances ever I seem to remember!

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.:luvlove: