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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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oldbear
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First album was the Byrds' Turn, Turn, Turn when I was 12 as it had just come out and I finally had talked my dad into letting me play rock 'n' roll on the record player.
teo_audio
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First: Supertramp, Crime of the Century (also bought the mo-fi when it was released)
Second: Pink Floyd, Dark Side
Third: Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath

Age 10

"So roll up and see...how they rape the universe.... how they’ve gone from bad to worse..."


boxer12
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Great taste at 10 years old Teo!
teo_audio
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"No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun...."

10 years old, and the panic begins....

Had been listening to Sabbath Paranoid since age 6-7. War Pigs, was probably my favorite song along with Iron Man, since I was into comics. Being 7.... Iron Man was, honestly, the bigger deal. Oh yeah, Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison was a lot of fun too, even at age 7.

Like Jim said "This is the strangest life I've ever known". Not quite, but warming up to it... Perhaps I'd better flip it, cook it on the other side a bit.... Do that too often, though, and it remains uncooked and frozen in the middle.


boxer12
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Crime of the century was the first album I purchased that I noticed had better sound quality than the ones bought prior to it. I would crank that one! 
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