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What is the first album you purchased, and do you still have it?

My record collection is my passion.  I started buying albums when I was in 9th grade.  I was hooked.  I don;t think I missed a weekend visit to the local record shop in the mall from the time I was 16 until I graduated college.  I still own those albums that I took so much care to choose..Just wondering if anyone else holds such memories dear and are sentimentally holding on to their old albums.  I still play them and enjoy them every bit as much as I did back in the day.
And my first album was Elton John...Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.  Sometimes I look at the covers and think, I have listened to these so much, I am jaded.  But I put them on and enjoy them as much as I ever did.
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soulman1855
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Al Green Still In Love With You
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lowrider57
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I guess I've blocked-out part of my childhood. I got my TT in high school, but my parents had a large console record player.
So my first record was "Meet the Beatles." It was kept in the built-in record holders with my parents' Perry Como and Ray Conniff singers.
Lost it long ago.

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ijs76c
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The Who, Live at Leeds. Still have it and it sounds great. 
reubent
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My parents had a console stereo in the living room. I had 3 older sisters and I listened to their records. But the first record I bought, with my own money, came when I was in Junior High School.

Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band - "Bongo Rock" - I've listened to this record several hundred times. Was a passing fade back in the day. But their version of "Apache", from this album,  became the most sampled song ever.

Still have it and still listen to it about once a year.
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charliex
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Decembers Children (MONO) - Rolling Stones (purchased Dec. 1965 - paid $2.79)Still my favorite Stones album along with "Aftermath" and "Out of Our Heads".Stopped buying Stones albums after Brian Jones death.Check out Brian Jones pic on the cover of "Between The Buttons" - totally wasted!
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