First disk you ever bought
Mine was Tubeway Army: Replicas, I was way into Gary Numan in my teens. I followed that up with The Pleasure Principle. Still one of my all time fave albums. http://www.myspace.com/garynuman

My first disc I ever bought was the Michael Jackson "Thriller" album, I believe. I'm almost embarrassed to admit that now, but hey...he was a good musician when he was black and looked like a man (and wasn't inviting little boys over to his mansion for sleep-overs.) :lol:

Now when you say "disc" do you mean album or CD? Phil you had to have bought something before Gary Numan! Were almost the same age. Still if Numan was your first it was a good one. He was ahead of his time. I heard "Down In the Park" for the first time in years today in fact! He ruled! Ok I've avoided my answer. First album bought, I've saved my allowance and bought the Monkees 2nd album. About 1969. Got a new record player that year at home. Got a new brother that year too.

Tapes, CDs, Vinyls, reel to reels, EPs, LPs, 33s, 45s, 78s & 8 tracks, anything really. Strange as it may seem I wasn't into music enough as a child to actually want to buy something. Then again no one bought me anything either. Although I did listen to Marc Bolan, the Monkees (I owned 2 of these, but my versions had the band members hanging out of the sides) And the Jackson 5. Most if not all was either from radio listening or TV and still I didn't go out of my way to do that either. Just one of them things, I was more into toons, comic books, comedy shows and movies back then. My brother's first music tape was The Muppets, which he got with our first cassette player. :oops: Player wise, we had a 50s/60s red and white Dansette portable record player and a 50s portable reel to reel (still have both stored away). I think we didn't get a stereo until the 80s. Funnily enough by the time 80s SKA/punk/Mod scene came around, the Dansette became the must have player again. Mp3s and iPods... we really suffered for our music. :lol:

I know dude think about it. How many people here have probably never heard of a "'B' Side" :lol: Remember when the freakin records were all scratched and skipped? They sounded even stupider than the wrecked CD's.

I've only been alive through the double-sided cassette tape era. :oops: Come to think of it, my first MYBBT was on cassette. It died shortly after I bought it due to play-rewind-play-rewind-play-rewind. :lol:

The first LP I bought was Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts club band. And I am embarrassed to say that it was the soundtrack by the Bee Gees, Peter Frampton, et. al., not the Beatles album. I had seen the movie and LOVED the Beatles and had some money from my paper route, so when we went to a local department store, I bought it (on vinyl, of course). I think I was 13 or 14. Before that I had bought boatloads of 45's, but that was the first album I purchased. After that, I did get some random K-Tel compilation albums (one which had Gary Numan's Cars on it :wink:). After that I joined Columbia house a couple of different times as a teenager. The first time, I ordered 8-tracks! I got stuff like: AC/DC - Highway To Hell AC/DC - Back In Black Aerosmith - Greatest Hits Boston - Boston J. Geils Band - Freeze-Frame John Lennon - Double Fantasy Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell Queen - The Game Styx - Cornerstone Styx - Paradise Theater Funny how I remember all that. The second time I joined, I got vinyl... stuff like: April Wine - The Nature Of The Beast Journey - Infinity Journey - Escape Loverboy - Loverboy Loverboy - Get Lucky The Cars - The Cars The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta The Police - Ghost In The Machine Barry Manilow - Live (no jokes) Now, the first CD I ever bought... I remember buying a scratch & dent CD player for my component stereo at the Navy Exchange when I was in the Army and stationed in Hawaii... for like $90 (that was super-cheap as they were outrageously priced at that time) ... in like 1987. While I was there I picked up a couple of CDs also: Eric Carmen - The Best Of Eric Carmen Aerosmith - Aerosmith's Greatest Hits (had to have it on CD) But the must-have purchase and the reason for deciding to buy a CD player in the first place was: U2 - The Joshua Tree (one of my all-time favorite albums as a whole)

Pops, hiss, rumble, static and fluff, then cleaning and testing your needle by running your finger over it and hearing every groove in your fingerprint. :lol: Talking of 8 tracks, anyone lucky enough to have had a slot loading 45 player in your car? Another great moment in vinyl ownership history, putting a disk in its sleeve only to have it drop clean out of a hole it's just cut in the wispy bottom. :lol: Ever noticed dreadful vinyls that you wanted to scratch to buggery, no matter how violently you hit the player would never die, but a flea farts the other side of the world and your fave 45 dies? Tape wise stretching, machines eating the tape were a real pain. Old speaker pops when the system finally warmed up enough to start working. Our old reel to reel had this green eye bubble type thing, like Gort's from The Day the Earth Stood Still. Anyway we had to watch it slowly melt into a low glow and then gradually brighten up until it got wider and wider, followed with a strange electric funk, before it was ready. Now that alone to us as kids was something to fight over to hog as entertainment. :lol: God, sad days. Talk about B sides, Double A sides, worse still Double Grooved A sides like my Kiss - Creatures Of The Night 12": http://www.musicstack.com/item/14007380/kiss/creatures+of+the The damn thing has a mind of its own.

lol nice thread, the first disk i ever bought was the soundtrack of my favorite kids soap opera, i was like 9 :p

Most I ever lifted as a kid was a tube of tennis balls and later a tube of squash balls. Stupid thing was at that time I played neither. Yeah funny that, it was my brother's record I was trying to destroy too. :lol:

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first disk? well my first 45 disk was velocity girl, but thats 45s my first cd maybe beck beer can single byt my first audio recordings were on tape back in 93 it was a x mas gift from my mom it was the lemonheads shame about ray wich i listen to most everyday many years later and a pearl jam tape