1st Album You Ever Bought Yourself

I don't remember which lp i bought, but i do remember that the first 45 i purchased was play that funky music, by wild cherry.

Penalty Box - Dave Schultz (45rpm)

Beach Boys - Endless Summer

Fat Boys - Crushin

My first 4 albums, bought used from Poo-Bah's in Pasadena;

Dead:
Skull Fuck (Roses and Skeletons)
Live Dead (Fillmore 71)

Zappa;
Roxy & Elsewhere
Fillmore East 71 

ABB @ Fillmore East came shortly after

It might have been Mimi and Richard Fariña 
or
Mark Spoelstra
or
Kerner, Ray and Glover
or
Dave Van Ronk

Boingo Alive

My first album was a trade. I traded my Mom's copy of Blue Hawai to my cousin for Frank Zappa's Apostrophe 

my first purchase was CSNY Four Way Street along with 13 others from Columbia House, remember them? 

Iron Butterfly - metamorphosis

"Introducing .... The Beatles"  on Vee-Jay records.     Bought it new at Two-Guys department store when it first came out, wish I still had it.

Yes - Going For The One

Herman's Hermits.

I think this was it - 1968

I think..........Rolf Harris - . Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport (and Sun Arise).

I think my first 45 may have been Love Potion #9. I slowed it down on the stereo and moved it with my finger as my mom wrote down the words so I could learn it. A treasured memory these days.  

Floyd - Animals and Shakedown Street with Xmas money 

Yes, Fragile.

Spirit - The Family That Plays Together

Meet The Beatles

Jerry - interesting that you got Introducing before Meet

Probably depended on where you lived as both were released at about same time

although Vee-Jay perhaps didn't have the distribution of Capitol

not sure?

Blues Brothers - Briefcase Full of Blues

The Doors

...

Waylon and Willie with the brown cover that was all bumpy

I remember buying a 45 of Alice Cooper's No More Mr. Nice Guy when I was about 12. The B-side was a tune called Raped and Freezin' and my mom did not like that at all.

The first album I bought myself was probably Ziggy Stardust about a year later.

I can't remember if it was Pat Benetar, Supertramp, or The Gogos but I was in the 4th grade so don't even start! Firts 45 was Boogie Fever by the Silvers in 2nd grade. My parents had a pretty big record collection esp. Beatles that I destroyed.

> Columbia House, remember them?

Oh, yeah. I signed up with Columbia at least 3-4 times over the years. I think RCA had a similar deal, but you didn't get nearly as many records.

Spring of 1973 I was eight, and one of my older brothers took me shopping at the local Korvette's department store in Huntington, New York.  It came down to The Beatles' "Hey Jude" or John Denver's Greatest Hits.  I went with The Beatles.  As time has gone by, I've come to think of that as a fork in the road, and wondered how differently things might have turned out if I'd bought John Denver.

 Not the first 

but  impactful  Loosen up naturally sweet Nd of Champlain 

Label:

Capitol Records – SWBB-200

Format:

2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold

Country:

US

Released:

1969

Genre:

Jazz, Rock, Funk / Soul, Blues

Style:

Psychedelic Rock

Early

Disraeli Gears is the second studio album by the British rockband Cream. It was released in November 1967[1] and went on to reach No. 5 on the UK Albums Chart.[2] and No. 1 on the Finnish charts. T

I can't remember which ones but I know I also bought 45's to take to dance parties in junior high.

1968 spirit

Of course these come to mind as well

1967The Grateful Dead

Released: March 17, 1967

Label: Warner Bros.

Format: LP

73——1968Anthem of the Sun

Released: July 18, 1968

Label: Warner Bros.

Format: LP

87——1969Aoxomoxoa

Released: June 20, 1969

Label: Warner Bros.

Format: LP

73——US: Gold [6]Live/Dead

Released: November 10, 1969

Label: Warner Bros.

Format: LP

64—66US: Gold [6]1970Workingman's Dead

Released: June 14, 1970

Label: Warner Bros.

Format: LP

27—17US: Platinum [6]American Beauty

Released: November 1, 1970

Label: Warner Bros.

Format: LP

193

1963 - Surfin' USA. 12th birthday, using some of my birthday money. Bought a styrofoam bodyboard at the same tine. I think I paid $5 total.

Styx - Mr. Roboto

Sometimes when I play music, I mention my former "recording contract" with Columbia Records. 

They're like "Really?" I say "Yep. If I sent them a dollar and paid for shipping, they'd send me 12 records."    

The Beatles: "Help!". I also remember it cost 4 bucks.

45- Billy Don't Be a Hero & The Night Chicago Died 

album - Aerosmith:Dream On 

>Sometimes when I play music, I mention my former "recording contract" with Columbia Records. 

They're like "Really?" I say "Yep. If I sent them a dollar and paid for shipping, they'd send me 12 records."    

 

haha, I guess I should also correct my first purchases were 8 track tapes

we had 45s to listen to because my neighbor got his cousins collection of Beatles, Creedence, Jackson 5 etc. because her parents would not let her have them because it was Satan's music. I think there were like 3-4 of those little 45 holders that were small boxes with the carrying handle on top 

Hot Rats, Court of the Crimson King and Mott the Hoople at Sam Goody.

A Night at The Opera.

Wish You Were Here was sold out at The Music Scene (the only record store within walking distance until was about 17).  I went back about a week later for WYWH.

My first attempted CD purchase was also a no-go.  Brothers in Arms was sold out at J&R (Park Row).  I ended going home with Communique and Learning to Crawl.

lady and the tramp soundtrack album. 

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WoolCo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHbkrHwy7I0

Kansas - Song For America

Hey and by the way, Ras, thanks for using the world "album" and not "vinyl" in the thread title.

LOVED THIS

I would play this album freaking loud

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_in_Europe_(Otis_Redding_album)

mr Neil young played with these fellas

Try a little tenderness

this is real REAL

https://youtu.be/IQ9n2_5mbig

REVIVAL  soul rock n Duck Dunn 

JJ weaned on this 

>>>Hey and by the way, Ras, thanks for using the world "album" and not "vinyl" in the thread title.<<<
 

the hipsters who just want to be noticed like to call them vinyls these days

the kids raised on LP's correctly refer to them as albums

First album that was mine:  Meet the Beatles.  Later, walking through Sears with my Mom, I asked if I could have "Sgt. Pepper's".  Mom declined, "That's that electric music!"  Eventually I got Revolver and '67-'70 (the blue double album) but didn't get Sgt. Pepper's until years later.

First album I bought with my own money:  Madman Across the Water.  1971, inspired by hearing Levon on the radio. Good album!  Zeppelin IV, Fragile, and DSOTM would come later.

I remember buying a couple Chicago 45s because they were basically two "A sides".

First LP: 

2nd LP

England's Newest Hitmakers, The Rolling Stones.

Mono, $1.99. 

Elton John-Here and There, a live album.

Album: Jesus Christ Superstar

45: The Sound of Silence

Devo - Freedom of Choice

and

AC/DC - Back In Black

First 45: Tom Petty - Don't Do Me Like That

Sgt, Barry Saddler....

He'll I haven't the faintest recollection. 

Try harder, Jaz. Or just make something up.

1979

My Dad had a huge record collection. He used to get those 10 for a penny deals from the TV Guide. After meeting the terms of the deal, he'd cancel and then do it all over again.
Since he ordered all kinds of genres, we had most of the popular albums, including most of the Beatles, Stones, Dylan, Beach Boys and lots of "local" stuff like the Dead, Big Brother, JA, Beau Brummels, etc.
He and Mom would pick out some albums from the offer list and then let me and my sibs select some. We had everything from classical, big band, jazz and blues to country, rock, soul and folk.
I think the first time I actually paid for an album with my own dough was probably Sgt. Pepper when it came out. I also remember spending allowance and lawn mowing dough on 45s before that. Mostly novelty tunes like "The Ballad Of Irving" and "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah".

I have no idea

"vinyl"

baba booey !