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Do You Remember Your First Music Purchase?

Lisa (my better half) and I, were doing some vinyl listening this weekend. She posed an interesting question. What is the first record in your collection that you had ever purchased?

Since my music aquisitions started in about 1965, needless to say, my first music purchase was a record. For some of the younger folks on this site, their first music purchase may have been a CD.

For me it was Gary Lewis and the Playboys, "Everybody Loves A Clown". It took me about 2 hours to figure out since I have, I would guess, about 2500 albums. I still have the album and it still plays pretty well considering it's probably been tracked by about 20 different stylii. I had A Webcor Stereo that my parents had purchased me for my 6th birthday. It had a 7" BSR turntable and an AM/FM "radio" built in, with 2 "detachable" speakers.

What is the first piece of recorded music you ever purchased and do you still own it?
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gfroman
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I was 9 years old when I bought, "The Monkees", for $2.99 at Woolworth's Drug Store. I bought the Mono LP since I could not afford the Stereo LP!
zshuster
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Beatles "Rubber Soul" and Stones "December's Children"
unit1865
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I'm pretty sure it was a 45 of "D.O.A." by Bloodrock when I was in grade school. Now that's a weird song.
pbb
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Geez The Platters "Great Pretender" was an album I found in the refuse closet near the incinerator chute in my apartment building, years and years ago, along with some Duke Ellington albums. Probably played The Platters a hundred times. Knew just about all the words to the songs. I am dating myself here.
dragon1952
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My first LP purchase was the Byrds "Mr. Tambourine Man". It was a toss-up and tough choice between this one and The Kinks first album ...I think it was just called "The Kinks".
This was 1965 and I was 12, almost 13 yrs old. My next was "Rubber Soul" by the Beatles. Never did get that Kinks album!
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