OT: First Album You Ever Bought With Your Own Money

Submitted by Santa Clause on

So, what was your first album you ever bought with cash you earned all by yourself? Mine was Led Zeppelin's first album. I bought it at a local record store when I was 15 years old and had my first job. My dad always talked about how great they were, so I found out myself. As it turns out, my dad was right, and I love to get the led out to this day.

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rob f

April 26th, 2016 at 7:25 PM ^

they're from Ohio, spudboy?

But since you're confessing,  I'll fess up too:  I'm also a 'Devo-tee' and have these in my collection:

and, like you, this:

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But I didn't stop there, as a couple years ago, I renewed my 'Devo-tion' and bought their newest on CD (released in 2010):

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mGrowOld

April 26th, 2016 at 9:07 PM ^

Freedom of choice (the song) kicks major ass.

A victim of collision on the open sea
Nobody ever said that life was free
Sank, swam, go down with the ship
But use your freedom of choice
I'll say it again in the land of the free
Use your freedom of choice
Your freedom of choice
In ancient Rome
There was a poem
About a dog
Who found two bones
He picked at one
He licked the other
He went in circles
He dropped dead

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WhoopinStick

April 26th, 2016 at 6:41 PM ^

Good question. I think I joined a music club and got four 8 tracks with my first order. Best of the Doobie Brothers, Gary Wright Dream Weaver, and don't remember which were the other two. Bought and recorded a lot while in high school. Hard to remember without digging out the old collection.



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jdon

April 26th, 2016 at 6:48 PM ^

When I was young my dad was a rocker so the first tapes I had were his old aerosmith ones...

the first album I bought with my own money was Public Enemy's 'Fear of a Black Planet'.

Im a white dude from a white land (downriver) but I had met some cool kids from Saginaw at a YMCA camp and they opened my mind to hip hop.

One of the most poignant moments of my life, or at least formative, was asking my mother who Farrakhan was.  She just looked at me like 'wtf' and then told me to go to the library.  She took me, and I learned all about the nation of islam.  lol.  

fortunately I was never white dude with dreads... and the next hip hop album I got was NWA followed by a love ICE CUBE...

jdon

 ps. I'm going to pretend I wasn't all 2 legit 2 quit or that I was all about Monie in the Middle.

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rob f

April 26th, 2016 at 7:07 PM ^

But since you asked, it was a Canadian 'import".

 

I installed my own 8-track player in my '73 Olds Omega in the summer of '74.    I was even clever enough to install a "slide mount" so that I wouldn't leave it in the car when I didn't want it to be visible to anyone looking to steal it.  I remember playing that 8-track to death when I left for college that August;  I soon invested in a slew of other 8-track tapes.

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