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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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charliex
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Decembers Children (MONO) - Rolling Stones (purchased Dec. 1965 - paid $2.79)Still my favorite Stones album along with "Aftermath" and "Out of Our Heads".Stopped buying Stones albums after Brian Jones death.Check out Brian Jones pic on the cover of "Between The Buttons" - totally wasted!
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yeti42
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Pink Floyd, Relics. I no longer have that copy but have recenly bought the reissue.
skywachr
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You are all so young. I have to reference a 78 recording of Vaughn Monroe singing Ghost Riders in the Sky. I must have been 6 or 7 years old. Wish I still had it. The other day at a ranch campfire when some folks were singing western songs someone in their 30s actually referenced that recording. It is a true classic.
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bdp24
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Great first album, tostadosunidos! All Summer Long was the first album I truly loved, my favorite of 1964. I wasn't yet sold on The Beatles, and gave my ticket to their '64 Cow Palace show to my mom, who went with my sisters. That summer I went to my first live show, The Beach Boys at The San Jose Civic Auditorium.

Only one year later Dylan played there, backed by The Hawks (later The Band, of course). You KNOW I wish I had gone to that show! I later made music with two guys who had gone, mighty hip for a 15 year old and a 13 year old (he was put ahead two grades in school. Smartest guy I have ever known. Great songwriter, too. He's dead now, but I have the tapes we recorded in 74-5, one of my prized possessions). 

tarheelneil
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My first I actually had five first albums, bought at a McCrory’s in York, PA back on 1965. I only still have one, the 4 Seasons’ Dawn album, and it still sounds as clean as it did back during it’s first play.
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