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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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uberwaltz
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Schools Out .. Alice Cooper.

1972 brand new, first day released.
In England.
A starstruck 12 year old had saved from his Saturday job to buy his first full length album after a few used 45,s.

It did not disappoint!

No I do not still have it.
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flatblackround
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First concert....Stones.......1966
First album.....High Tide and Green Grass
Shoplifted
Played it on a used console with a penny taped to the tonearm.  Two or three copies since then that I actually paid for.  Love the RS.
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almarg
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I believe that I too was in the 9th grade when I bought my first album, Connie Francis' "More Greatest Hits."  I still have it.  I haven't listened to it in ages, though, as during my adult years the majority of my listening has been to classical music.  But I think of it (and her) fondly.

Regards,
-- Al 
boxer12
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Grand Funk Railroad / We're an american band

I do not have it. I was very proud of it though, took it around the neighborhood to show my friends LOL. Not sure what happened to it...    

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Let Zep HOTH. I was 13 and so embarrassed like I was buying something naughty. I played it everyday after work for weeks. Still have it for 42 years
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