My first album was From Under The Cork Tree by Fall Out Boy in 2005. I remember walking around with a CD player in my hoodie pocket. After I figured out you can rip CDs to file, I ended up getting a chonky brown Zune the next year.
Figuring out how to use XNA Game Studio to load games onto that thing was an experience.
First album I purchased with my own money was Daft Punk - discovery. Aerodynamic and digital love were game changing to me
This is a tough one to remember as I bought a lot of cassettes and had some of my sister’s hand me downs at the same time. To the best of my recollection I think it was The Police, Synchronicity. First CD is a lot easier to remember, it was Guns N’ Roses, Appetite for Destruction.
My brother used to work for a company that supplied all the “goodies” for certain venues back in the 90’s. He never let me go to any of the shows.
Backstage at G n’ R would’ve been CRAZY…
“goodies”
I would have loved to get back stage for one of their shows, not for the “goodies” but maybe the chance to meet Slash and hope he would be kind enough to gift me one of his Les Pauls.
It was alcohol and some foods! 
Whatever else was supplied may not have been legal… 
(Probably why my brother never brought me)
I’m in a Record Store with my two big brothers. I’m going to buy my first ALBUM! - not just a 45 single - an LP, an actual Album!!! My brothers are helping me pick. I’ve got a few in my hands, I’ve been saving $$$ for this moment. We get to the cashier, I’m pulling out a small ball of wadded singles, starting to peel them off, and my brothers say “Put your money away. Happy Birthday.”
In my arms were The Who’s “Who’s Next,” Jethro Tull’s “Aqualung,” and Mountain’s “Nantucket Sleighride.”
As I heard from my friends on the playground as the story was retold: You have the coolest brothers!
Agreed! I had the coolest brothers!!
The one that came with the poster?
My dad bought that one, but I grabbed the poster and had it on the closet door in my bedroom for a long time 
Somewhere my parents have a picture of me getting into their record collection when I was about 4 and listening with headphones…
But I think first albums I bought were Dvoraks 9th Symphony and Holzts The Planets and Steve Taylor meltdown at madame tussauds.
In 1986 I bought my parents a CD player for Christmas and the first CD was an instrumental Star Trek album… No idea now who recorded it
This question takes me back a bit
I don’t think I ever bought a music cassette… Just LPS that I would copy to cassette myself and then went to CDs (I remember those days of browsing tower records too and used to swap jazz albums with one of my college roommates)
First headphone was a Sony V6 that I bought by mail-order from an electronics shop in New York - was $100, which was a lot of money for me as a teenager.
Just realizing that BY FAR the highest percentage of ‘disposable’ income I have spent on myself over my life is on music and equipment.
I’ll have to look that one up
During Covid, I’ve been doing a daily live reading of Lord of the Rings
This album came up randomly on Amazon HD a few days ago…
Turns out he has 2.5 Million YouTube subscribers!
Kind of a celtic folk vibe with flavors of gregorian chant.
Lord of the Rings is Epic! I used to have almost every sword from the movies, then I got married lol.
That’s funny!
I prefer the books more myself and didn’t like how they changed the hobbit, but I thought Jackson did an awesome job on the fellowship of the ring… The other two deviated too much from the way I had pictured things in my head for years before they came out…
Of course awesome means it is what I like - LOL
Yeah movies rarely can do a book justice they were still enjoyable!!
Probably it was Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
Oh, that’s interesting! I did not know about him but I will definitely give the album a listen! Thank you!
I bought three albums the first time I used my own money:
As now, I had no discernible common thread in music I liked.
The Art of Noise is the only one of those three that’s still in my Library. However I’m inspired to correct that oversight right now. 
Men at Work, Business As Usual & Level 42, Level 42.
I bought the 8 tracks at the same times.
So you are adding back Quiet Riot and the Go-Go’s?
Yup! Done. Streaming services makes it cheap and easy.
My first album was Cheap Trick In Color and Black and White.
