My first cassette was Huey Lewis and the News (Sports)

First cd was Van Halen 1984.

Bought two CDs:

Green Day - Dookie
and
All 4 One - All 4 One

8-Track:Smash Hits-Jimi Hendrix
Album:Electric Ladyland-Jimi Hendrix
Cassette:Freedom of Choice-Devo
CDs:The Joshua Tree-U2/Dark Side Of The Moon(MFSL Gold)-Pink Floyd
Bootleg: December XXVII-U2 live 12/27/1989 at the Point Depot Dublin.

My first album was probably Huey Lewis & The News: Sports.

My first CD was The Doors: In Concert

They Might Be Giants - Long Tall Weekend

Doors-Best of (2-Disc)

Great topic. I used to collect film scores when I was very young (around 9 or so I started buying them) so I'll exclude those, but my first modern rock/pop vinyl purchase was Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Welcome to the Pleasuredome". My first CD purchase was Steve Vai's "Passion and Warfare".

Steve Vai's Flex-Able
I didn't even have a CD player at the time, but it had extra tracks not on the tape, so I had to get it.

baby,you are showing your age...

8-Track...KISS ALIVE! II
LP...KISS: ALIVE!
CD...traded RUSH: POWER WINDOWS LP for CD version.
Cassette...I can't remember but it may have been another KISS release.

First Album: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy in 1975

First CD: Dark Side of the Moon in 1985

First tape: Top Gun or Stand By Me soundtrack

First CD: Beach Boys - Still Cruisin' or Made in the USA

First CD: Billy Joel: The Stranger. Bought it before I had a player.
First Album (vinyl) - Not positive, probably a Beach Boys album.

On cassette, I wish I could say it was the uncensored cover, but it was not.

Creed - Human Clay was the first cassette, I couldn't afford a cd player back then.

First CD, I can't even remember.

First cassette - Cocktail Soundtrack (Had to have it for Kokomo)
First CD - Clapton Unplugged

First LP: Devo "Freedom of Choice" (at JC Penney's )
First CD: Meat Puppets "Forbidden Places" (I was slow to give up vinyl)

they still made cassettes in 99?

First LP: Themes from the Movies. It was one of those cheapo '70s movie theme compilations on the Peter Pan label. The arrangements were full of that cheesy orchestra/disco stuff.



First cassette: The Empire Strikes Back soundtrack.
First CD: Time Warp (Erich Kunzel/Cincinnati Pops sci-fi movie theme compilation).

1983 -> 1st Album: Talking Heads "Speaking in Tongues"
1984 -> 1st CD: The Very Best of Elvis Costello & The Attaractions,
& The Thompson Twins "Into the Gap"

1990 - First cassette: I want to say something awesome and cool, but considering I was only 9 years old, I'm pretty sure it was Weird Al's Greatest Hits.

1995 - First CD: A two-fer, The Beatles 1962 - 1966 and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. That was pretty much a mind-shattering day.

First Album - Billy Joel - Glass Houses 1980 (on tape for my first boom box).
First CD - Paul Simon - Graceland 1986 (for the portable CD player I got for Christmas, which must have cost around $250, iirc).

forgot what my first CD purchase was but my first cassette tape was Crush by OMD (Orchestral Manoevuere's in the Dark). last CD purchases were The Eagles' Long Road out of Eden and the Police's two-disc greatest hits.

First LP - Star Wars soundtrack
First CD - Full Swing - In Full Swing (1987)