My first album purchase was a cassette of Guns and Roses - Use Your Illusion I and II. Then it was Joe Satriani’s Flying In A Blue Dream. Those were the days! 
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Kiss Alive 2. LP. I talked my mom into it by arguing that since it was a double album, it was the best value. Those were the days when a department store sold records and when they stopped selling, they’d put a little slit in the jacket and deep discount it.
I was in 4th grade and felt like a rebel buying it
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Brothers in Arms tour. I saw them that tour in Hartford CT.
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First album? Probably Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. When I was in high school we would meet up at whichever friend had a turntable and bring what records we had and listen to them. I bought a lot of very '70s mainstream stuff, like Doobie Brothers and Chicago, etc. Once I got to college it got more interesting with punk and jazz.
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oh dear god why did i find this thread
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btw, listen without prejudice vol 1 was a good album and i will fight you if you disagree
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Big Shiny Tunes 4. @andrew drove up to my hometown in his first car and we blasted that CD non-stop when he got to our place. Enough times that I bought it myself.
I followed it up with Blink 182’s “Take Off Your Pants and Jacket”.
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Faith had the stronger singles, but I actually like Listen Without Prejudice a little bit better as an album.
Now I’m going to be really controversial and say that Wham’s Make It Big had the strongest singles but Fantastic was a better album.
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The Boomtown Rats - The Fine Art Of Surfacing.
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Love this thread. So here are my confessions.
Don’t remember exactly which one was the first LP (Vinyl) but it’s either Howard Jones - Human’s Lib or Rick Springfield - Tao. First Maxi was Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax (rebel me!). First CD was Saga - In Transit. A Brief Case is still one of my test tracks (electronic vs “real” drum). And first vinyl I bought after I got a record player again (2019): Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasure Dome.
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My two first LPs were, Supertramp Crime of the Century and
Kraftwerk The man machine
Not the kind of Music my parents loved in 1978 
I still own my trusty Technics SL 1710 
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It came out the year I was born… And I still listen to it regularly 41 years later.!
If you look at my profile picture that’s most likely what I was listening to as a kid.
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Thriller. I was too young to buy it myself, but I begged my mom go to Kmart (yes, Kmart LOL) to buy me the record. First record I ever owned.
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That’s my second album ever. Never gets old!
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There are songs on that album that I use in my standard audio evaluation list. MJ was a fanatic about the sound quality.
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Happy cake day @pennstac
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I’ve been listening to it a lot lately with my new VC’s. It sounds great! Which tracks do you use as test tracks?
Beat It and Billie Jean. Because they are so familiar. Not Thriller because there’s a lot of studio stuff going on in that - very obvious. Prince is another artist to check out for test tracks - even some of his live stuff is well recorded, and gives you a chance to evaluate air and venue acoustics.
For fun, you should check out the Easy Star All Stars “Thrillah”.
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I’ll have to check out more of Prince’s stuff. Love the Thrillah too, thanks for the heads up!
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