Your first music single purchase
 

For some of us it goes back a bit but does anyone remember their first music single (or whole album if that was your first) that they owned?

My first single was bought for me when I was a child, it was on 7inch vinyl and it was 'Live it Up' (80s)

I was born in 1990, so it's not like I grew up in an era where buying CDs and music tapes was still a thing everyone did. Thank heavens for the internet :lol:

That being said, I bought a few Metal CDs when I was 18-19. My first one? Probably Powerslave by Iron Maiden?

First album I bought with my own money was Ozzy Osborne Bark at the Moon on cd.

People still bought CDs throughout the 90's .... just not children.. :) Anyway, for those lucky enough to be young, downloaded first purchase counts too :)

First album I bought with my own money was The Transplants' self-titled debut. Still one of my all time favorites, too. A solid blend of punk rock & hip-hop, with elements of other underground genres scattered throughout.

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If nothing else, most folks would recognize this song, as 10 years after it came out it started getting play in shampoo commercials & stuff. :tlol:

I'm pretty sure the first cassette tape I ever bought with my own money was Stevie Wonder - In the Square Circle.

I think it was around 1995/96 when I first got a Discman. So whatever popular music from that time was probably my first. I remember not having a lot of money at that age. But you could buy CDs with only a few songs on them. So music was somewhat affordable to a kid. The CD was packaged in a cardboard sleeve and not the standard plastic case. It would have been something pop, rap, country and alternative music. Maybe even a soundtrack or two.

I also recorded a lot of music onto tapes as I would listen to the radio. Mostly metal and alternative music. I would stop the tape during the advertisements and it wasn't easy knowing when to press record again. So sometimes the intro to the first song after a break would be cut off.

The days of people recording from the radio, I like where we are now with technology better :)