I cannot BELIEVE THIS POST!

The first tape I ever bought was "Electric Youth" by Debbie (though I actually discovered her music only a few months ago and for the first time really listened to her CDs thanks to a sale at my record store) and the first CD I bought was "Frogstomp" by Silverchair. Though I remember also getting "The Sound of Music" CD with th Silverchair CD. My dad got those for me.

How crazy is this coincidence??

Speaking of Silverchair, the new "Young Modern" is amazing!

First album- "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" Baby!

First cd was an upgrade - Genesis "Trick Of The Tail"

First LP: was probably the Bay City Rollers LP that had "Saturday Night" on it. Or Shawn Cassidy the one w/ "Da Do Ron Ron" on it.

First cassette (first release I actually bought with my own money): KISS "Double Platinum"

First CD: Goo Goo Dolls "Hold Me Up"

First album (vinyl) i ever purchased with my own money was Who Are You - The Who - the first cd....hmmmm...i think it was Waiting on a Miracle -Bruce Cockburn.

My first album was probably one of the rare U2 albums... I bought it more recently than my first CD. I had a few tapes, but don't remember my first... they included
Weird Al - Off the Deep End
New Kids on the Block
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince

My first CD was on my 16th birthday I went to The Warehouse and got Richard Marx - Rush Street. That was followed closely by Metallica - Ride the Lightning and then Metallica - The Black Album because the songs I had thought were on Ride were actually on Black.

First Tape: Men At Work - Business as Usual

First CD: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic

First CD was TLC: Ooooooohhh...On the TLC Tip

First LPs (I bought three at once, circa 1980):
- Queen: The Game
- AC/DC: Dirty Deeds
- Cheap Trick: Live @ Budokan

First cassette tapes (circa 1984):
- Depeche Mode: Some Great Reward
- Led Zeppelin: IV
- Cure: Head on the Door

First CDs (circa 1988):
- Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies
- U2: Joshua Tree
- Beatles: RubberSoul/Revolver/Sgt.Pepper*

* I still have the original long-box for Sgt.P. as it has the cut-outs on it

my memory's going in regards to first vinyl and tape, but the first CD's I bought were

- Vangelis 'Chariots of Fire'
- Cats (Broadway Cast recording)

Beatles- yesterday and today

Run DMC Raising Hell

Can't remember the first LP I bought with my own money. It might have been Jethro Tull's Aqualung. I know I owned records by Shaun Cassidy, Bee Gees, Abba and Bay City Rollers before that, but they may have been Christmas/birthday gifts I asked my parents for.

First CD purchase consisted of:
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Erasure - Chorus
The KLF - The White Room

I don't remember my first album purchase. Could have been the Star Wars score. My first CD was Bruce Springsteen's The River. It was my fifth copy of that album in as many years getting scratched to hell that finally induced me to stick a crowbar in my wallet and get my first CD player in '86.

First Tape, as far as I can remember, was the Ghostbuster's soundtrack. I was probably too young to buy that though, so maybe The Party (yes, from the Mickey Mouse Club) or Weird Al would be the actually first purchased.

First CD: The Doors and Creedence Chronicles (bought while I waited for a Columbiahouse order of typical grunge titles to come in)

First album: The Bangles - Different Light
First Cassette: Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA
First CD: Bon Jovi - Keep The Faith/Slaughter - Stick It To Ya/Prince - Prince & The New Power Generation (bought all 3 at the same time)

I was in third grade and recall receiving Billy Joel's Glass Houses and the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack on tape. Before that I remember lots and lots of children's records . . . Sesame Street, Disney, Spider-Man, Free To Be You And Me. I never got into buying any rock music until high school though. I was very into James Bond soundtracks.

I got my first "record player"/stereo for Christmas when I was 6 or 7, and my first 3 LP's along with it:

Eagles- The Long Run
Survivor- Eye of the Tiger
Michael Jackson- Thriller

My first cd was The Razor's Edge by AC/DC in the fall of 1990. My family had a couple cd players in the house as early as 1986, but that was the first disc I actually owned, which I got as a present along with a new stereo. I had pretty much rolled with tapes until then.

First Cassette: Dokken- Under Lock and Key, followed very shortly by Ratt's Invasion of Your Privacy

First CD: Sepultura - Arise, Dream Theater - Images and Words (bought them at the same time)

First cassette tape (Late 80's) - Queen Greatest Hits
First CD (Late 90's) - Oasis - What's The Story Morning Glory

I love this thread!

First Album- I bought two ( well, actually, my parents bought them for me ) at the same time- Lynyrd Skynyrd- Second Helping & Foghat- Night Shift. in 1976 at the mere age of 12.
First cd- Deep Purple - Machine Head
First 45- Sham ba la la- Three Dog Night.

I don't still own it, but it was Iron Maiden: Fear of the Dark.

First album: Miami Vice Sountrack on cassette circa 1984

First CD: probably The Joshua Tree.

What was everyone's first legit/paid MP3 purchase?

My first iTunes receipt indicates I purchased:
Fabolous - "Breathe"

the first album i ever purchased was the soundtrack to the Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band movie w/ the BeeGees,Peter Frampton,Earth Wind & Fire,Aerosmith,etc

i was 7yrs old and at the time it was the greatest movie i'd ever seen

I got 3 cds for my 13th birthday:

Janet Jackson : Control
Crowded House : Crowded House
Club Nouveau : Life, Love and Pain

I still have the Crowded House.