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I don't remember much, but I remember......

Not sure about you guys but it seems to me that things are getting a little tense here again and we need to have a little bit of fun! I was enjoying an evening of listening to my rig and then I saw it...my first CD(sorry guys too young for LP's!). I remember everything about the day I got it, the weather, the time, where it was purchase, even the price! The CD was U2's "Achtung Baby" I put the CD in(I have not listened to it in years)and was brought back to a time not too long ago when things seemed.....well, simpler. Then I got to think what a profound impact that one event had on my life, the joy of music. Does anyone else remember there first CD or LP? did it have as much of an impact on you as mine had on me?
tireguy
abstract7
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I'm glad to hear someone else's first purchase was embarrassing--mine was Kiss Alive. It was played on a portable phono player that had something like a 2x4 for a tonearm with a nail through it for a cartridge.
fam124
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Fun thread. First LP purchase of my own—“Meet the Beatles,” (when first released), at age ten. Still have it, but at last play, it had so much hiss, so many crackles, pops, etc., it sounded more like Beatles Meet French Fries Concession. I used to listen on one of those one-piece, suitcase-like record player contraptions, with the speakers that attached/detached on either side and a handle for carrying.
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marakanetz
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I've listened mostly to vinyls upto 1991 until I moved into US. My first CD was Queen -- "A Night at the Opera". That's when my first "digital dissapointment" occured. Hoping to transfer all the way to CDs I've sold my records, TT and all applied stereo components in Russia; but than realized that I've made a mistake...
mes
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I believe I was in 2nd grade and with the $5 I got for my birthday I purchased BOTH the Kinks first LP and The Music Machine, with a reveting version of "Tax Man". I think they were $1.99 each. I wore the grooves out on those 2 LP's.
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driver
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...buying Please Please Me in 1965. We had just come back from Germany after a 2.5 year stay & I was ready to get my own copy at the ripe ole age of 10. I was living in a little town in Southern Illinois that had a population of ~15k, but don't remember the price or the store. When I first heard a CD player I decided against them because even though they were very clean sounding, they were lacking in musicality & had a 2 dimensional sound. When I heard that George Martin was going to sit in on the CD process I decided to buy a CD player & started buying the Beatles CD's before I bought the player.
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