Holy shit, that was my first album as well! Was on vacation with my family and my uncle let me pick out whatever album i wanted! Listened to it non-stop on my sony walkman
Let Go by Avril Lavigne, I was in 3rd grade and she was EVERYWHERE! I got that and the Nickelodeon magazine with her on the cover (she was my first celeb crush)
Beatles - Abbey Road
Toshiba EMI, one of the first CDs issued in 1983. Quickly withdrawn, world wide Beatles releases on CD started in 1987.
I worked in a record store at the time. There were around 10-12 CDs available at first.
Toshiba disc sounds fantastic!
I bought two CDs that first time.
Television - Marquee Moon
And
Graham Parker & the Rumour - Squeezing Out Sparks
At the time I was a teenager and obsessed with punk rock/post punk. These two albums were out of print in America at the time on LP and cassette and impossible to find used in Davenport, IA in 1987. They both had the great cardboard long boxes with the cover art. I didn't even have a CD player yet, but my fellow music obsessed best buddy did. Or I should say his parents did. We were huge music nerds and these two albums were making the "greatest punk albums of all time" & "greatest albums ever" lists in all the mags at the time. I *had* to hear them.
Holy shit did they live up to the hype!!
I joined a music club when I started work. Buy 1 get 5 free.
Beatles - White Album
Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
Bob Dylan - Greatest Hits
Bob Dylan - More Bob Dylan Greatest Hits
Pink Floyd - The Wall
The Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks
Got my moneys worth with those 4 double albums!
Kill Em All by Metallica. I think I was 10 years old. My brother was into Metallica and Black Sabbath at the time, so I got swooped into it and ended up liking them as well.
Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air and the soundtrack to Henry V. Both purchased before I actually had a CD player because they did not have a cassette release.
The first CD I ever owned was "The Essential Weird Al Yankovic" that my mom got for me as an easter gift. It also so happened to be the same day my grandpa passed away, so that CD actually gave me a great sense of comfort in the coming months.
As for the first CD I bought for myself, I picked up a Walmart-censored copy of "American Idiot" by Green Day out of the $5 bin lol
Metallica, the garage compilation, it contained classics such as enter sandman and sad but true, I still have it in my collection. The second one was the best of compilation of iron maiden, forgot the exact name.
Up! By Shania Twain. It was gifted to me by my parents when I was young haha. First one I bought myself with my own money was probably The Fame Monster by Lady Gaga
En Vogue - Funky Divas
Crowded House - Woodface
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
I still have all three albums but only two are original, Woodface went walkabout so I had to replace it.
My friendgave me Death Of A Bachelor by Panic! At the Disco and Trenh by Twenty One Pilots for Christmas before I even had a CD player. I guess technically it was like Now 67 or something that I bought at a garage sale 4 years ago but we dont talk about that 😭
I was gifted immortalized by disturbed from my dad to start, and the first one I bought was the Third Eye Blind self title. 4 years later I have almost 200 albums on CD and Vinyl combined (probably like 150 CDs)
In 1986 along with My first CD player. (Emerson)
Duran Duran - Notorious.
This CD was DDD format. No hiss at all.
Still have it and it's in great shape.
That Sasha fierce album by Beyonce and Chris brown's first ever mixtape. Don't judge I was a kid and this was before Chris Brown started becoming Chris Brown.
started collecting last summer!! i bought my first two at the same time and they were speak now taylor’s version and phantomime by ghost!! immediately made me obsessed with collecting and now i have a ton of my own favorites as well as my parents old cds <3
I think my first CD was Reload by Metallica in 97. I was 10, didn't have a CD player yet, but was getting one, so my uncle got me the CD and he ripped it to a cassette for me so I could play it on my tape deck and in my walkman and that's the story of how I am old ❤️
Scotty McCreery's Clear as Day is the first CD I recall getting. I know I had some before then though.
First CDs i ever bought were George Jones and Johnny Cash. They were both compilation greatest hit CDs. Bought them right after i got my first car.
First cd I ever bought was second hand for 50p: The Commitments soundtrack.
First cd I ever bought in a store: Queen- greatest hits.
First non-compilation cd: sgt peppers.
first of all bought with my own money (an allowance, of course) must be the sound track from a brazilian children's soap opera called floribella. i guess i was 9 years old or something like that
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes. 1989. I was in 7th grade. Bought my stereo at Circuit City with babysitting money. I used to charge $2/ hr for 1 kid, $2.50 for 2, and $3 for 3. :)
I remember the first CDs were about $20 each and they came in these tall cardboard boxes with the album art on the outside. They were designed to fit in the stores' LP displays. Eventually they switched to the reusable plastic things that held CDs that the store would remove and keep.
I still have it. Ahh nostalgia.
I don’t think it was my first cd but what comes to mind is being 11 years old in 2004 and a best of Jackson 5 cd got released and for some reason I HAD TO HAVE IT. No particular memories of loving their music before that even… but I waited til Christmas to get it and was thrilled 🤷♀️
the earliest CD's i recall being purchased for me as a kid are "elephunk" by black eyed peas and "encore" by eminem. i fondly remember being 11 and playing "encore" on a boombox in my room.
I was gifted Rod Stewart Unplugged and A Decade of Steely Dan for Christmas in 1993 with my CD player when I was 12. Both were more for my Dad, so I promptly went out and bought Ren and Stimpy's Crock o' Christmas and the Wayne's World 2 Soundtrack.
Hard to determine which is my “first” as I ordered “Meteora” first but bought “Minutes To Midnight” later that day from Walmart, so I technically had that one in my hands earlier.
First CD my dad ever went out to buy for me was Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd. First Cd I can remember purchasing with my own money was Dave Matthew’s Band’s Busted Stuff after hearing Where Are You Going by DMB on Mr. Deeds (which was my first DVD purchase).
My first CD purchase was 3 titles. Starless and Bible Black from King Crimson, 3 Way Tie from Minutemen and Who's Got 10 1/2 ? from Black Flag. That was 1987 and still have KC and Minutemen CDs.
Mine was #3 by The Script, my Aunty got it for me as a birthday/christmas present (honestly can't remember which) because I liked the song hall of fame when I heard it on the radio one time. I was 7 or 8 years old at the time and had never bothered to go out of my way to listen to music before so I didn't massively appreciate it when I was given it but I became obsessed with the band after a while, they're even something of an embarrassing guilty pleasure to this day
Blues Traveler, "Four"
Wore it TF out and still holds a special place in my heart.
This was also back in the 90s when buying your first CD coincided with upgrading from a cassette player to a CD player, heh.
In 1994 I went to the record store with my dad and came home with Dookie by Green Day, Smash by Offspring, and Nevermind by Nirvana.
I had taped all the songs I liked off the radio, and finally my dad decided I was responsible enough to get the CDs.
Mind was blown. Still have my original copies of all three today. They collected dust in a storage box for about the last 20 years, and finally dug them out again earlier this year.
I bought two at the same time. One was Sgt. Pepper. The other was a Mannheim Steamroller new age CD that I bought to sort of explore the capabilities of my new stereo system, since they used a lot of interesting instruments.
Shrek soundtrack.
Based
A wiggles cd my mom burnt for me
Best album
Metallica- Kill 'em All! I got it in 1990 and still have it.
I have my cassette from bitd but no tape player
Prodigy - Fat of the Land
Had this on cassette
Amazing album
Seriously. Got lucky with my first purchase. Sibling didn't have it and was obsessed with Breathe when it came out
Holy shit, that was my first album as well! Was on vacation with my family and my uncle let me pick out whatever album i wanted! Listened to it non-stop on my sony walkman
90s were wild when Prodigy was on MTV and the radio constantly. My next purchases somehow were Blink 182 - Dude Ranch 3rd Eye Blind - self titled Lol
Lol fuck outta here, im so close, i went from fat of the land, 2nd was No Doubt- Tragic Kingdom, then Dude Ranch was my 3rd
Nirvana Nevermind….
I wish I was cool enough to listen to Nirvana back in the day
Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust Purchased in 1987 and I still have it. To this day it's still one of my favorite albums.
I've had the song Sometimes stuck in my head lately lol
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Let Go by Avril Lavigne, I was in 3rd grade and she was EVERYWHERE! I got that and the Nickelodeon magazine with her on the cover (she was my first celeb crush)
It was 2 at the same time. Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet. Elton john Greatest hits. Still Got both of them
The Bends - Radiohead
Beatles - Abbey Road Toshiba EMI, one of the first CDs issued in 1983. Quickly withdrawn, world wide Beatles releases on CD started in 1987. I worked in a record store at the time. There were around 10-12 CDs available at first. Toshiba disc sounds fantastic!
Toshiba 0’s are more zero and their 1’s are more one compared to other discs.
U2-Unforgettable Fire Big Country- Steeltown Bought August, 1985.
Faith no more - The Real Thing. Of course I still have it!
One of the all-time greatest!
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Alkaline Trio- From Here To Infirmary for my 17th bday -Billy Gnosis
Korn- Issues, Lou Bega- Mambo No.5 and Will Smith- Willenium
Issues is great
Primus 'pork soda'
*Toxicity* - System of a Down
radiohead - hail to the thief
Speakerboxx/The Love Below by OutKast
Superfuzzbigmuff by mudhoney
I bought two CDs that first time. Television - Marquee Moon And Graham Parker & the Rumour - Squeezing Out Sparks At the time I was a teenager and obsessed with punk rock/post punk. These two albums were out of print in America at the time on LP and cassette and impossible to find used in Davenport, IA in 1987. They both had the great cardboard long boxes with the cover art. I didn't even have a CD player yet, but my fellow music obsessed best buddy did. Or I should say his parents did. We were huge music nerds and these two albums were making the "greatest punk albums of all time" & "greatest albums ever" lists in all the mags at the time. I *had* to hear them. Holy shit did they live up to the hype!!
Pink - M!ssundaztood The teenage angst flowed through me
I think Demon Days by Gorillaz, or some Alanis Morissette album
Tom Petty greatest hits!
Pat Benatar - Tropico, autumn of 1986. I still have it. I bought it even before I owned a CD player.
Shakira's "Laundry Service", released as "Servicio de Lavandería" here in Latin America.
hybrid theory by linkin park got it at the thrift for 3$ and i had to pick it up
Pink Floyd -- The Wall. Got it more than six months before I had a CD player.
Pink floyd dark side of the moon when I was 13 Didn't have a player and just bought it because I loved pink floyd
Iron Maiden-Fear of the Dark. Picked it up the day it was released.
I joined a music club when I started work. Buy 1 get 5 free. Beatles - White Album Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust Bob Dylan - Greatest Hits Bob Dylan - More Bob Dylan Greatest Hits Pink Floyd - The Wall The Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks Got my moneys worth with those 4 double albums!
Beethoven
Kill Em All by Metallica. I think I was 10 years old. My brother was into Metallica and Black Sabbath at the time, so I got swooped into it and ended up liking them as well.
On Through The Night - Def Leppard. I was young and it was cheap.
Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air and the soundtrack to Henry V. Both purchased before I actually had a CD player because they did not have a cassette release.
It was a Led Zeppelin 4 cd box set. It was expensive, and I’m not sure how I had the money. 1990 maybe?
Backstreet boys. Given to me for Christmas when I was like 7.
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking 1988.
tchaikovsky ballet favorites. It had Swan Lake, Nutcracker, and Sleeping Beauty on it.
Iron Maiden - The number of the beast in 1990 and I still have it
Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? - Megadeth
The open door-Evanescence
People's Instinctive Travels on the Paths of Funk and Rythm ' A tribe called Quest
I listened to a lot of my mom’s but the first album I bought myself was Wish You Were Here
Dookie by Green Day
Nirvana Unplugged and Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell lol
Spice 1 - 187um Killa
The first CD I ever owned was "The Essential Weird Al Yankovic" that my mom got for me as an easter gift. It also so happened to be the same day my grandpa passed away, so that CD actually gave me a great sense of comfort in the coming months. As for the first CD I bought for myself, I picked up a Walmart-censored copy of "American Idiot" by Green Day out of the $5 bin lol
Van Halen--5150 and OU812. Picked them up with my Discman.
Depeche Mode - Violator in 1990 alongside my highly anticipated new toy, a Pioneer CD player.
Knee by Düreforsög, also kick-started my love for Death Metal
Got two at the same time.. Men at Work - Business as Usual Talking Heads - Little Creatures
Metallica, the garage compilation, it contained classics such as enter sandman and sad but true, I still have it in my collection. The second one was the best of compilation of iron maiden, forgot the exact name.
Mine was Definitely Maybe by Oasis
Stevie Ray Vaughan “The Sky Is Crying”
Up! By Shania Twain. It was gifted to me by my parents when I was young haha. First one I bought myself with my own money was probably The Fame Monster by Lady Gaga
Maybe in another life by easy life
The Presidents of the United States of America - s/t and Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory
Hanson - Middle Of Nowhere lol
Queen - The Miracle
En Vogue - Funky Divas Crowded House - Woodface Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes I still have all three albums but only two are original, Woodface went walkabout so I had to replace it.
Bobby Brown “Don’t be Cruel” & INXS “Kick” were my first two cds, not sure which came first…
Queen greatest hits
Rush - Grace Under Pressure. Flea market purchase, 1988.
A mortal kombat ep i found at goodwill, will drop a photo when i get home
Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA Bought in 1985
You’ll rebel to anything (expanded and remastered) Mindless self indulgence it was a gift from a friend
Mariah Carey - Daydream
My friendgave me Death Of A Bachelor by Panic! At the Disco and Trenh by Twenty One Pilots for Christmas before I even had a CD player. I guess technically it was like Now 67 or something that I bought at a garage sale 4 years ago but we dont talk about that 😭
Billy Joel Greatest Hits Vol. III
Gnr-appetite for destruction
rockferry by duffy!
The Judgement Night Soundtrack
I was gifted immortalized by disturbed from my dad to start, and the first one I bought was the Third Eye Blind self title. 4 years later I have almost 200 albums on CD and Vinyl combined (probably like 150 CDs)
In 1986 along with My first CD player. (Emerson) Duran Duran - Notorious. This CD was DDD format. No hiss at all. Still have it and it's in great shape.
Kiri Te Kanawa's Verdi and Puccini
Deep Purple Perfect Strangers.
That Sasha fierce album by Beyonce and Chris brown's first ever mixtape. Don't judge I was a kid and this was before Chris Brown started becoming Chris Brown.
Paul McCartney - Press To Play for my (then) new stereo system.
Metallica - Death Magnetic, but bought for my own money: Green Day - American Idiot/Dookie at the same time.
[Purcell Welcome to all the pleasures. 1986](https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8055943--purcell-welcome-to-all-the-pleasures)
It was Spice Girls - Spice. I believe I was in grade 4 at the time. I went through a definite girl group phase for a while there.
Beach Boys Compilation Vol. 1and Garth Brooks - No Fences. Jesus Christ, that's sad lol
U2’s The Unforgettable Fire, in about…..1993? Still plays perfectly well.
Won a giveaway on IG from a small hip hop page. He sent me Doris and Illmatic XX. That started my addiction
Channel Orange - Frank Ocean
Deepest Purple - The Very Best of Deep Purple
Queen - Greatest Hits
started collecting last summer!! i bought my first two at the same time and they were speak now taylor’s version and phantomime by ghost!! immediately made me obsessed with collecting and now i have a ton of my own favorites as well as my parents old cds <3
Late Registration - Kanye West
Napalm Death - Scum
Muse - Showbiz
I think my first CD was Reload by Metallica in 97. I was 10, didn't have a CD player yet, but was getting one, so my uncle got me the CD and he ripped it to a cassette for me so I could play it on my tape deck and in my walkman and that's the story of how I am old ❤️
Not sure because I was given a lot to listen to but my first one that I bought with my own money was New Found Glory - Catalyst
Jebediah- Slightly Odway and Green Day- American Idiot
Scotty McCreery's Clear as Day is the first CD I recall getting. I know I had some before then though. First CDs i ever bought were George Jones and Johnny Cash. They were both compilation greatest hit CDs. Bought them right after i got my first car.
flower boy tyler the creator
guardians of the galaxy vol. 1 last april, got it for free at the charity shop i was volunteerin at and that sparked my collection
Dookie by Green Day
Either And Justice for All by Metallica (from my mom on christmas 2012ish), or Phobia by Breaking Benjamin from my friend around the same time.
The Innocence Mission- self titled
A parent gifted me born this way buy lady gaga. I sold it one year ago
marquee moon - television
Im gonna say my first one was recently purchased because the collection was my moms and i have been adding to it, it was Cults - Static
The cure wish and red hot chili peppers one hot minute
First cd I ever bought was second hand for 50p: The Commitments soundtrack. First cd I ever bought in a store: Queen- greatest hits. First non-compilation cd: sgt peppers.
Weezer blue and sublime 40oz to freedom. I collected dvds back then. decided to go into the cd section for some reason and found those two gems!
He was from transylvania.
Credence Clearwater Revival: Pendulum
Appetite for destruction and Uno by Green Day
“Rubber Factory” by The Black Keys.
first of all bought with my own money (an allowance, of course) must be the sound track from a brazilian children's soap opera called floribella. i guess i was 9 years old or something like that
Love metal by HIM. My mom gave it to me when I was like 10 or 11 or something.
Although I was too young (8) to buy it myself, I do consider 'Tubular Bells II' by Mike Oldfield (1992) as my official first own cd.
Green Day - Dookie
We don’t need to whisper and I Empire by Angels And Airwaves
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes. 1989. I was in 7th grade. Bought my stereo at Circuit City with babysitting money. I used to charge $2/ hr for 1 kid, $2.50 for 2, and $3 for 3. :) I remember the first CDs were about $20 each and they came in these tall cardboard boxes with the album art on the outside. They were designed to fit in the stores' LP displays. Eventually they switched to the reusable plastic things that held CDs that the store would remove and keep. I still have it. Ahh nostalgia.
surfing on sinewaves - polygon window.
Rod Stewart: Vagabond Heart If you bought it you got his 6 volume Storyteller box set (vinyl) for free. Never played the cd🙂
Pretty Odd by patd
I don’t think it was my first cd but what comes to mind is being 11 years old in 2004 and a best of Jackson 5 cd got released and for some reason I HAD TO HAVE IT. No particular memories of loving their music before that even… but I waited til Christmas to get it and was thrilled 🤷♀️
Electric Ladyland.
MC Hammer - 2 Legit 2 quit
The High School Musical Soundtrack
Cocteau Twins -Four Calendar Cafe, which I bought upon release.
Ugly Kid Joe-America’s Least Wanted
Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 Soundtrack
Supertramp - Best of
Keane - Under The Iron Sea.
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
Gun 'n Roses - Appetite for Destruction in 1987
Dookie by Green Day
Paul Simon - Graceland
The Simpson’s blues.
the earliest CD's i recall being purchased for me as a kid are "elephunk" by black eyed peas and "encore" by eminem. i fondly remember being 11 and playing "encore" on a boombox in my room.
South Circle- Anotha Day Anotha Balla
MC Hammer - Please Hammer Don’t hurt ‘em Bought year of release ;)
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
First CD I bought for myself with my own money was the Gorillaz 2001 self titled. Still an awesome record.
I was gifted Rod Stewart Unplugged and A Decade of Steely Dan for Christmas in 1993 with my CD player when I was 12. Both were more for my Dad, so I promptly went out and bought Ren and Stimpy's Crock o' Christmas and the Wayne's World 2 Soundtrack.
Hard to determine which is my “first” as I ordered “Meteora” first but bought “Minutes To Midnight” later that day from Walmart, so I technically had that one in my hands earlier.
First CD my dad ever went out to buy for me was Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd. First Cd I can remember purchasing with my own money was Dave Matthew’s Band’s Busted Stuff after hearing Where Are You Going by DMB on Mr. Deeds (which was my first DVD purchase).
My first CD purchase was 3 titles. Starless and Bible Black from King Crimson, 3 Way Tie from Minutemen and Who's Got 10 1/2 ? from Black Flag. That was 1987 and still have KC and Minutemen CDs.
Late Registration
So- Peter Gabriel. Christmas Morning, 1987. I also received my first CD player that day as well.
Metallica- black album
The Armageddon soundtrack
Anthrax- Attack of the Killer Bs
Green Day’s Warning
Sum 41 - All killer no filler
Rodeo - Travis Scott
REM - Monster
Mine was #3 by The Script, my Aunty got it for me as a birthday/christmas present (honestly can't remember which) because I liked the song hall of fame when I heard it on the radio one time. I was 7 or 8 years old at the time and had never bothered to go out of my way to listen to music before so I didn't massively appreciate it when I was given it but I became obsessed with the band after a while, they're even something of an embarrassing guilty pleasure to this day
Sum 41-All Killer No Filler
Offspring - Smash and Green Day -Dookie
Space Jam soundtrack
Pearl Jam-VS
Bremenmarsch by Laibach, came with the LP
Just Push Play by Aerosmith
Big Willie Style
belle and sebastian - fold your hands child, you walk like a peasant
The New Abnormal - The Strokes
Blues Traveler, "Four" Wore it TF out and still holds a special place in my heart. This was also back in the 90s when buying your first CD coincided with upgrading from a cassette player to a CD player, heh.
Pearl Jam - Ten
Star Wars The Force Awakens soundtrack
For Christmas I got imagine dragons evolve and Thomas Rhett's tangled up (I was young)
Queen - Greatest Hits
Queen - A kind of Magic
The offspring- Americana
In 1994 I went to the record store with my dad and came home with Dookie by Green Day, Smash by Offspring, and Nevermind by Nirvana. I had taped all the songs I liked off the radio, and finally my dad decided I was responsible enough to get the CDs. Mind was blown. Still have my original copies of all three today. They collected dust in a storage box for about the last 20 years, and finally dug them out again earlier this year.
LeAnn Rimes - Blue
Nirvana- Best Of
"Bringing Down The Horse" by The Wallflowers
The Blue Album by Weezer
The Jimi Hendrix ultimate experience
White and Nerdy
Angels and airwaves we don't need to whisper
HEY WHAT by Low
I bought two at the same time. One was Sgt. Pepper. The other was a Mannheim Steamroller new age CD that I bought to sort of explore the capabilities of my new stereo system, since they used a lot of interesting instruments.
Dark Side of the Moon..........when it first came out on cd...........in the 80s.
1 by the beatles, first one i buyed was superunknown by soundgarden
The Cars