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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
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.
boxer12
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" That's such a sad story, no TT." 
Child Abuse...
djones51
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Good lord, probably either The Monkees or Meet The Beatles. No I don't still own them they were barely playable within a few years after I got them. 
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jond
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Obviously my "abusive" childhood is the root cause of my addiction to and obsession with stereo equipment. :)
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stereo5
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Pink Floyd, "Piper At The Gates Of Dawn"           mono vinyl and I still have it.  I purchased it from Muffets Music in Providence, RI because they sold import records....   I believe that was in 1966 or 67.
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