What Was Your First Commercially Produced Music Purchase?

What was the first piece of commercially-produced (i.e., not a mixtape or home recording) piece of music you ever bought?

Me?

It was the single (cassette) from Suzanne Vega's album, 99.9 F° - Blood Makes Noise. I had always taped any music I liked off the radio or TV (I used to record Doctor Who on PBS off the TV onto audio cassette before my parents broke down and bought a VHS recorder). Paid 3USD for it at Tower Records in Citrus Heights, California (which is sadly gone now) in 1992.

Can't remember.

No wait, it was Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction on tape.

Nik Kershaw 'Human Racing'. My first 'favourite artist' of my own, that wasn't just a taste acquired from some sibling's collection. My 6 older sisters and brothers thought he was shit.

pelle politibil cassette, probably. that or barnas julefavoritter on cd.

Cassette version of

http://www.discogs.com/ACDC-Highway-To-Hell/release/2205888

I bought it because my mom was a huge Christian and I was looking around the store and couldn't find anything and then I picked that up and she told me not to buy it because it was satanic, so I bought it anyway.

edit: no wait, might've been this

oh i dunno.

(great thread)

Yeah, my parents bought me Thriller when I was tiny.

First self-purchase was I think

or

(on cassette)

Although those might have been x-mas gifts in 1991.

  On 8/26/2010 at 7:58 PM, impakt said:

Can't remember.

 

No wait, it was Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction on tape.

This is the first I actually remember buying with my own money.

I had others before, but I think I begged for them from my parents or got them for Christmas and whatnot.

  On 8/26/2010 at 8:42 PM, scones to die for said:

  On 8/26/2010 at 7:58 PM, impakt said:

Can't remember.

 

No wait, it was Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction on tape.

This is the first I actually remember buying with my own money.

 

I had others before, but I think I begged for them from my parents or got them for Christmas and whatnot.

Yeah, I had others earlier - but that was the first one I bought.

depeche mode - black celebration on tape.

my first hip hop purchase was public enemy - it takes a nation of millions to hold us back on vinyl

  On 8/26/2010 at 8:11 PM, data said:

 

edit: no wait, might've been this

 

 

oh i dunno.

wow thats a creepy album cover... the way his eyes are creeping through there... and the fact that theres a naked boy with a crocodile skull covering his erection...

Somebody should photoshop pedobear eyes into that cover.

  On 8/26/2010 at 8:52 PM, asymmetrical head said:

depeche mode - black celebration on tape.

 

 

my first hip hop purchase was public enemy - it takes a nation of millions to hold us back on vinyl

 

DM ON TEH FUCKIN' STRENGPH!

  On 8/26/2010 at 8:23 PM, troon said:

 

(great thread)

Fuck. Yes. Although mine was CD.

My next purchase was Wreckx-n-Effect - Rump Shaker on cassette.

Vinyl. I was 5 or 6.

  On 8/26/2010 at 10:06 PM, Squee said:

  On 8/26/2010 at 8:23 PM, troon said:

 

(great thread)

 

Fuck. Yes. Although mine was CD.

shortly after that i started break dancing and became obsessed with breakin' the movie - i bought the soundtrack vinyl

and was totally insane for the ice-t trac 'reckless'. it's still something i play occasionally or mix with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mc3pTmiCHI

one of my first cd's was pearl jam - ten

first cd i think was meat beat manifesto NOW CD single... i think?!

  On 8/26/2010 at 10:11 PM, Spore said:

My next purchase was Wreckx-n-Effect - Rump Shaker on cassette.

youtube the video and pause at 3:25... i hit that!

E-type, Nirvana, Prodigy

either led zeppelin iv or nevermind. on tape. first cd was bush - razorblade suitcase. oh, regret.

something by weird al on tape