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The first album that you bought with your own money in whichever format, was what?
Album in whichever format not Single.

Try to include a bit of narrative about the experience.

I’ll kick off with Slade’s Play it Loud. I bought the LP in Rumbelows in Epsom in January 1972 partly with a Record Token that I had got for Christmas 1971. I had already got a copy of their single Coz I Luv You. I was a mere 13 at the time.

Play It Loud aka the skinhead album isn’t like their foot stomping glam rock stuff really but it does show the beginnings of their strong song writing ability and is probably closest to Slade In Flame than any of their other albums. It’s not their debut album but is the first under the name Slade.

Still holds a very special and worthy place in my collection

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Alright... I'm prepared for your judgement, but I do believe this was my first CD purchased with my own money:
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Though I did get my parents to buy me cassette tapes and CDs before hand.
 
It was the summer of 1983 on a field trip to the Greenville Mall (South Carolina, USA) with my church Vacation Bible School when I stopped by Peppermint Records and bought Prince's 1999 double album. I'm sure the chaperones on the trip were not aware of what it was I purchased because it wasn't the most kid friendly album to own but it began my long relationship with Prince and his music.

I was only 11. Thankfully I still own the same album.

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About 1983 I talked my parents into letting me join the Columbia House Music Club. I don't really remember but I think you got to pick 5 albums for a $1 then buy 5 more over the next year? Unfortunately I don't have the records anymore. The only albums I remember are The Eagles Greatest Hits and Billy Joel's Glass Houses. I'm sure I wore out Glass Houses on my Sears stereo. 1000002277.png
 
d6jg said:
The first album that you bought with your own money in whichever format, was what?
Album in whichever format not Single.

Try to include a bit of narrative about the experience.

I’ll kick off with Slade’s Play it Loud. I bought the LP in Rumbelows in Epsom in January 1972 partly with a Record Token that I had got for Christmas 1971. I had already got a copy of their single Coz I Luv You. I was a mere 13 at the time.

Play It Loud aka the skinhead album isn’t like their foot stomping glam rock stuff really but it does show the beginnings of their strong song writing ability and is probably closest to Slade In Flame than any of their other albums. It’s not their debut album but is the first under the name Slade.

Still holds a very special and worthy place in my collection

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In 1972 I was still living with my parents in Chessington, only a couple of miles from Epsom!

My first albums (I bought two at the same time), where Led Zeppelin 1 and David Bowie's Man Who Sold The World, bought at a record shop in Kingston on my way home from college back in 1971.
 
I remember the moment. I just don't remember what I bought. I unfortunately don't have the cd anymore. My mom let me choose a CD at the supermarket and I remember holding some soft pop thing in one hand (had some massive ballad hit on radio play which I liked) and a metal CD in the other hand. Had to pick.. How much was influence from my older brothers I'm not sure 😂

Believe it was a Metallica or Iron Maiden or something. That's where it all started for me at least.
 
AlanB said:
In 1972 I was still living with my parents in Chessington, only a couple of miles from Epsom!

My first albums (I bought two at the same time), where Led Zeppelin 1 and David Bowie's Man Who Sold The World, bought at a record shop in Kingston on my way home from college back in 1971.
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That's some very cool first records. Having experienced those bands as they were active/came out with those top classic albums is something alot of people who experienced it years/decades later wonder about.
 
I was about 8-9 years old and swapped a cheap battery-operated cassette recorder with a neighbour's boy for the red and blue double album by the Beatles. Despite the ban, I listened to them on the compact system from Neckermann (Körting) when my parents were on shift. The two double LPs are still in my possession today, almost 50 years later 😁
 
Hulle Sack said:
I was about 8-9 years old and swapped a cheap battery-operated cassette recorder with a neighbour's boy for the red and blue double album by the Beatles. Despite the ban, I listened to them on the compact system from Neckermann (Körting) when my parents were on shift. The two double LPs are still in my possession today, almost 50 years later 😁
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Living dangerously at such a tender age.
 
Hulle Sack said:
I was about 8-9 years old and swapped a cheap battery-operated cassette recorder with a neighbour's boy for the red and blue double album by the Beatles. Despite the ban, I listened to them on the compact system from Neckermann (Körting) when my parents were on shift. The two double LPs are still in my possession today, almost 50 years later 😁
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What ban?
 
Hulle Sack said:
It was forbidden for the kids to use parents 'HiFi equipment'. They preferred to scratch their LPs themselves...😉
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That makes sense now. Thought you must have lived somewhere where The Beatles were banned.
 
d6jg said:
That makes sense now. Thought you must have lived somewhere where The Beatles were banned.
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...not at all. I must also say to my parents' credit that only a few years later (with the help of my 5 year older brother) they gave me a record player with integrated amplifier, 2 x 25W speakers and all the officially released Beatles LPs for Christmas. With the result that the Beatles are still my favourite band today 🎸
 
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