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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.
awhittington
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dweller
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Jan and Dean - Drag City (circa 1963). Yes, still in my collection.
lmnop
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Bob Dylan - Desire. Still have it and every other album I’ve acquired over the years. 
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lowrider57
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@jond ,
That's such a sad story, no TT.

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jond
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@lowrider57 well my parents had one which I used but by the time I really became interested in music all my friends had tapedecks and starting to get  CD players. And I got a TT later in life Rega P3 but never loved it.
gpgr4blu
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Rubber Soul (U.S. version)
Still have it and it still sounds great (my old Shure tracked at 1g and now I have a line contact stylus at 1.7, so my guess is that the groove depth that the stylus travels now was never touched in my youth)
Probably my favorite album of all time.
Is it because it was my first or because there is not a bad note on the album? I think more the latter.
As for the OP's favorite GYBR. Still have that. In my top 20 of all time I'm sure.
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