What was your first music that you paid for?

Jan and Dean-"dead mans's curve"

Steppenwolf, "Monster" from the Murphy's cut-out bin for 99 cents.

Shut Down by the Beach Boys, I think. Back in those days I principally bought 45s. Can't recall whether my first album was a Beach Boys one or Beatles '65.

Beatles - Yellow Submarine: Still have it, although you can practically see through it. My second record was Santana's third LP - with the man with the outstretched hand. Can see through that one too.

im not positive ,but i think it was either a Beatles or Monkees album,,

First album I ever purchased was The Doors "Soft Parade" when I was in about fifth grade. I wasn't too popular with the Archies set. Of course, I wasn't too popular with my mother, either, when she heard Morrison cry out, "you cannot petition the Lord in prayer!"

At 10 or 11 I bought an album with Beethoven's 5th and 9th symphonies. I distinctly recall travelling to Chicago from the suburbs to go to a museum with some neighbour kids. Somewhere in downtown Chicago was a small record store. I think that it might have been the first real record store that I visited. I might have purchased some 45s before that from a dime store, but I don't recall what.

Something by the Roach sisters.Keep On Doing. I liked their version of the Hallelujah chorus.

Blood, Sweat & Tears + Santana 3 + Miles Davis - On the Corner.
Still happy with these albums....

Around the World with Three Dog Night - double live album that totally blows all their studio versions away. Listen to 'Mama Told Me Not to Come' and tell me I'm wrong!

Bob Dylan's Highway 61 and the Temptations Greatest Hits (I think). Still a Dylan fan and am soon going to a reunion concert of the local R&B bands that played our high school dances. Some things never change.

Album: Jefferson Airplane " Takes Off " Still have it.
45 single: Tommy James and the Shondells " Cry Like A Baby "

Album: Simon And Garfunkle Wednesday Morning 3AM
45: Little Eva - Locomotion
But I was raised on my brothers Click Clack by Dikkie Do and the Donts! (that is really thier name)

First received a children's three-speed record player as a Christmas gift in 1962. Actually, I had the first LP devoted to music from the "Mickiey Mouse Club" television show in 1955, but never had anything to play it on. This album contained 26 songs from the show and featured Jimmie Dodd and a handful of Mouseketeers. Most of the songs featured Dodd and some backup adult vocalists, including Dodd's wife, Ruth Carrell Dodd. The album sold for $3.98 in 1955, not cheap by any means in those days. Still recall the album was purchased at "Crawford's Corndrs," a little department store in El Monte, California. The album survives today in good condition. Still sounds pretty good, too. There is a decent high fidelity quality about it.

Once the record player was in the house, my first album to go along with it was "The Alvin Show," featuring Ross "David Seville" Bagdasarian. Of course, the voices of Alvin, Simon and Theodore were also supplieed by Bagdasarian. His natural voice was sped up to twice the normal speed, thus creating the effect of Chipmunks. I am convinced many parents were driven batty by the Chipmunk records. Not so much by the voices of the Chipmunks, but by the sound of "David Seville" going postal at the end of each track.