What was the first record you bought?

[Ceejache]

I think it was Iron Maiden's 'Live After Death' album. I bought it for my brother for Christmas..he didn't like it and gave it me..which was my idea all along!!!

[windylad]

the first i bought was cum on feel the noise by slade i got it from marys music

[Doug]

April Fools, I think it was Connie Francs. It was off accy market back in 1969. I still have it in my mothers loft.

[Sparkologist]

It seems that most folk from the age of vinyl cut their teeth musically, at Mary's Music.

[KIPAX]

Without You - Nielson

I already owned some platters on 78s but dont know where from. Swing low sweet chariot on 78 and loads of other... But first bought was Without You on a 45

I dunno about some not knowing what a 45/t8 is.,. I bet some have never seen a record player or cleaned the dust/fluff off a player needle

[Shurm]

Mine was Going Underground by The Jam, I remember going in Disc and Tape to buy it crapping my pants cos of the punks hehehhe

[Less]

mine was I'm a hog for you baby by Screaming Lord Sutch the flip side of which was called My Monster in Black Tights. Bought it back in '63 still had it up to a couple of years ago when my son borrowed my record collection (permanently) when he went through his D.J. stage.

[savo is back.]

The glory of love by Peter Cetera. All because of those damn karate kid movies!!!!

[becki*]

the first CD i ever bought myself must have been when i was about 9 or 10 and it was a britney spears album. how sad!!

[mac]

the kids from fame. sad aint it. i should kick my own arse for that.

[Wynonie Harris]

August, 1964...after six months of mithering, my long-suffering parents finally give in and buy me a Dansette record player. Immediately, I rush downtown, along Broadway, into Woolies and there it is..."The Greatest Hits Of Elvis Presley". It's got a strange line drawing of old El' on the front and it's on some weird label called "Embassy" but who cares? It's only 14/6 (circa 70p) - a mere snip when compared with full-price LPs which sell for the princely sum of 32/6 (circa £1.60). I make my purchase and as I'm walking home along Blackburn Road, I take the record out of the bag to examine in it. Then I see those fatal words "...as performed by Danny Storm and the Tempests". That's when I realise my mistake - I've bought an album's worth of cover versions on Woolies' own in-house label by a singer who sounds as much like Elvis as yer average Saturday night turn at the Willow Mount.

My first record and my first record-buying lesson - always look closely before you buy!

[Alan Gilmartin]

Well, Wynonie, a bit of a coincidence, my first record, was Elvis golden records, I bought it second hand from a boy who sat next to me in class, name Mick Sturzaker, he played in a group called the Cyclons, It was ten bob, I payed him off a bob a week.
The first new record I bought was Niel Sedaka, Breaking up is hard to do. From Mary;s record stall on Accy Market, one Sat morning, on my way home from the Baths.

[Alan Gilmartin]

Wynonie, Just got an email from Ace Records to say, I can now get all there products, from Shock Records, in Melbourne, They are a record company that do Quality compilations and are agents for other imports. Have a look at there website.

[Wynonie Harris]

Alan, their site looks the business. Get yerself some prime R&B (that's rhythm & blues, not the soulless, synthesised garbage that masquerades under the title of R&B these days!).

[Bazf]

Tarkus by Emerson Lake and Palmer bought from Abbey records for 1.50 in that new money that had just come out.