What was your first music that you paid for?

My first record was Hang On Sloopy by the McCoys. Purchased at Giant Music for about $2.47 (standard LP price in those days). I also got the Beatles Second Album and Paul Revere and the Raiders all around the same time. Different shopping trips, though, as I could only afford one album at a time on my allowance and baby-sitting money.

I can't remember life without music. My parents let me operate the console before I was 5 yrs old. The earliest thing I played over and over and over again is viewable on old 16mm movie film. The Venture's album with the surfer on the big wave on the silverish-blueish album cover. I kept playing that first song over and over.

Eric Clapton Slow Hand. The tape is worn out but I still have it for sentimental reasons.

The 45 of Don McLean's American Pie - bought at none other than Woolworths.

Either Cream Disraeli Gears or Jeff. Airplane Surrealistic Pillow.