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[Lister]

So I was thinking about this: the first album you buy with your own money is very important, but also just as likely to be a horrible decision due to it being made while in your teens.  For instance, the first album I bought was:

Bryan Adams - Waking Up The Neighbours.

It had several singles on it that I had heard on top 40 radio and I bought it at K-Mart.  I freely admit that I had no taste at the time.  I do not know the wherabouts of this CD now; I have moved 4 times since I last remember seeing it and being embarrassed to hold it.

What was your first album?  Can it show worse taste?  I think not.

[AlohaDawg]

It was Billy Joel's angriest album, Glass Houses.

Very closely followed by 'blue' Beatles greatest hits.

[robot_god]

The first album I bought on my own was Green Day - Dookie.  The first album I forced my parents to buy was an Aerosmith's Greatest Hits.

[AugustWest]

Queen -- News of the World

followed closely by:

Kansas -- Point of No Return
Styx -- Grand Illusion
ELO -- Out of the Blue
The Cars -- Candy-O
Pink Floyd -- Wish You Were Here

All on 8-track.

[AugustWest]

Also, see this thread for an earlier discussion of this question.  It starts about halfway down the page.

[starlight]

On cassette or cd?

Honestly, I can't remember which cassette I bought... maybe Warren G - Regulate?  I was into rap around my early teens.. I distinctly recall being in Target holding it.  I'm not sure if I bought any before that myself.

Probably my first cd purchase was another weird rap album.  I wish I had been in another musical phase so this would be more interesting :D

[FlipConstantine]

It was Green Day - Nimrod.  No I'm not proud of it.  No I don't still have it.  Thank you very much.

[pmcd9]

I don't recall.  When did I put my own dollars down rather than just bug one of my folks for it?  Who knows.  Even then, when was the money actually mine and not money my folks gave me?  I remember buying Brother Louie by the Stories, Jackie Blue by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils and Rikki Don't Lose That Number b/w Any Major Dude by Steely Dan at the Grants Department Store across the Street from the Little York Bowling Lanes with money my folks had given me for pinball.  That's probably the first.  I would have been 12-13 at the time I guess.

~Paul

[AugustWest]

Grants Department Store

We had a Grants.  It later became a Big K, then a Mr. Wiggs.

[jough]

First album - Phil Collins "No Jacket Required."  Bought at the same time with Billy Joel "An Innocent Man."

First CD, many years later: R.E.M. "Out of Time"

[swinehund]

The soundtrack to the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.

[theinevitable]

hm. I believe it was "astro lounge" by Smash Mouth.

[misterqueue]

The Simpsons "Sing the Blues".

In my defense, I was pretty young at the time.

[miles]

First CD was Pearl Jam's Ten.

I don't remember the first cassette but most of them were purchased for me, anyway.  I did have Nirvana's Nevermind on cassette before Ten though.

Also owned before those two:

MC Hammer: Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em
Buddy Holly:  Some kind of compilation
Ritchie Valens:  Some kind of compilation
The Fat Boys:  Can't remember which one (I'd recognize it by sight but can't find any cover scans)

[littlefallsmets]

I do not remember what record or album I bought first... but I do remember the first compact disc I ever bought was.

Use Your Illusion 2. It's one of the ways I'm awesome.