Your First Music Purchase?

The first 45 was The Battle of New Orleans by Jimmy Driftwood

The first LP was Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys

Ummmm...I have no idea....I was like literally 5.....as soon as I started getting an allowance I was buying 45s......probably the BeeGees or something.....maybe the Eagles? Whatever my Aunt Shelia thought was cool.... ;D She sang and played guitar and was blonde and gorgeous. I worshiped her. And my stupid uncle beat her..... And she was smart enough to leave his sorry ass. Sad for me, good for her. Sigh.....

1st music had to be a 45 and the 1st 45 I remember was "Monster Mash" which I bought at Pop Tunes in Memphis on a trip there when I was 9.

I always inherited LP's from my 9 older siblings so the 1st album I bought was a used LP by the Runaways called "Queens of Noise" from Hyacinth Records in Oak Ridge, TN for 25 cents.

Never bought a cassette that I can remember. Always bought LP's and recorded them to cassetes and stored LP as a pseudo-master copy.

1st CD was in 1989 when they quit making LP's and I bought about 20-30 at once to start replacing my collection. Can't remember what they were though as I bought about 100 that year.

STP - Core (i think this was the first CD i ever bought)

These weren't my first purchases, but they were early Jr. High ones. I'm right there behind you, I have Debbie, Marx, Tiffany, Rick Astley, Taylor Dayne, and at least a few others like that, all on vinyl... though I hide those in a box in a closet at my parents house, lest anyone get the wrong idea when flipping through my record collection. I think it was because the girls I would date loved all of that back then. Debbie Gibson grew up in the town next to mine, and I always hoped to meet her, thought she was hot... there's that too
(no NKOTB though, probably because I was jealous of them and their appeal to the ladies)

"Pump"- Aerosmith or "End Of The Innocence" Don Henley, both on tape. I can't tell you which, but it's one of those.

First, you should know that I was born in 1981, so I wasn't around during the great 2 music decades of the 20th century - the 60's and 70's, however my tastes include mostly bands of those decades, and I want to build a time machine to go back to be 18-21 years old at the time of the original Woodstock or Monterey Pop cause I would've definitely been there, but here's where my music collecting obsession started:

First cassettes - Aerosmith - Big Ones, Eagles - Hell Freezes Over, James Taylor - Greatest Hits, The Beatles - Anthology Vol. 1, Simon and Garfunkel - Greatest Hits, Van Morrison - Greatest Hits

First CD's - Metallica - Black Album, Grateful Dead - Skeletons from the Closet, Led Zeppelin - 1 thru 4, Pink Floyd - Pulse

First concerts - 1997 - 16 years old - Metallica, Dave Matthews Band - obviously they didn't play together but they were my two favorite bands during high school - around that time I was into a lot of alternative and metal, but late in high school I started really getting into DMB and Grateful Dead, I remember when Jerry passed in 1995, I wanted to know about the Dead more, so I started listening and I think those 2 - DMB and the Dead - are what led me to discover things like Bonnaroo and Panic, and all these other fests and great bands and stuff...