1st Album you Ever Owned?

Grew up in Frankfurt Germany, born 1968.
I may fail to remember what I did for my birthday or New Year’s the previous year, so this fun thread says something about the significance of music in my and everyone else’s life posting here.

First album was Kiss “Dynasty”
First piece of recorded music came with my first playback device, a little cassette player and a tape that had on one side Abba “Super Trooper” and on the other the soundtrack to “Zorba, the Greek”.
First concert my dad took me to was Santana at the Old Opera in Frankfurt.

My Dad won a raffle at a local gas station's grand opening.  It was a "Stereo" Garrard record changer with ceramic flipover cat, tube amplifier, speaker and other channel in removeable lid.  Came with a stack of stereo LPs...original cast B'way soundtracks, pop, and Hit Parade collections, including Best of The Coasters, Bobby Darin, Nat Cole.  The first album I bought to play on this was "Having A Rave-Up with the Yardbirds".  Soon after...the Stones' "High Tides and Green Grass" and the Beatles' "Rubber Soul".  Then...the first Paul Butterfield Blues Band album.  That one opened my ears up big time.

Joy to the World: Their Greatest Hits - Three Dog Night 1974

The Rockets - On the road again  sept. 1978  Lol

The first time I went record shopping was shortly after I got my driver’s license in 1976. We lived over two hours from New Orleans, where there was a record store called The Music Box which from time to time had $3.99 album sales.

I had been saving up and planning this for some time. Drove to New Orleans and bought four albums that day, which was probably the most I ever bought at once. Here they are, in alphabetical order by band name:

Blue Oyster Cult, "Agents of Fortune"
Jethro Tull, "Songs from the Wood"
Led Zeppelin III
Queen, "A Night at the Opera"

I haven’t burned out on any of them yet.

These were virtually contraband at my parent’s house, guaranteed to start a verbal war, so I had to listen (on their stereo) when they were gone, quickly shutting it down and stashing my music when the dogs barked to warn me of their return. I got busted when the fuse in their Fisher receiver kept blowing and I ran out of replacements (no I wasn't clipping - the fuse would blow when the unit was turned on; replace the fuse and it wouldn't blow for the second turn-on). It would be another year before I moved out and bought my first fledgling stereo system.

Duke