Remember When You Were Young....

I just about memorised every song before eventually playing it to death on an old Garrard changer.  Probably still at home in the attic.  I've had a couple of vinyl copies since that first one.

An old 'Hacker Gondolier' played the Stones album.  Not bad in Hi-Fi terms.  G

I didn't pay 2/6 for the Beatles LP.

That was how much pocket money i used to get at the time i bought it.

I don't remember how much it cost though.

I already had a copy for a few years that some one left at one of my parents parties.

It got badly scratched by my sister so i bought a new copy,I bought the first Thunderbirds album on the same day at Sevenoaks market..

My mate John used to get 5bob a week and he never had to feed or muck out horses and pigs before he went to school.

Stu.

...and are you still listening to the Track Record compilation?  The thread is fraying!  G

The first single i bought was Telstar by The Tornadoes at a small seaside gift shop in Bridlington.

Richard

First single was Children of the Revolution by T.Rex and first album was The Slider also by T.Rex and the price was 1 pound and 75 pence in December 1972 from the Record Room in St Albans.

Still got it and play it!!

Tim

My first single was

But I don't play it any longer as the LP12 doesn't do 78s. 

I can remember the first time i heard and held that album.

It was a mono on a family Sunday day trip to my cus and his wife's new ultra modern all white flat in  Croydon the week it came out.

Everyone went for a walk after lunch and i stayed and listened to the whole album on his fantastic Goldring and Leak System.

Stu.

1973,  at the tender age of 14. Yeah, I know!

I also purchased it at the tender age of 14 - in March 1977 (and after WYWH and Animals, oddly enough) for £3.65.

Most of my pocket money used to go on 202 bullets 202 pellets and bits for my bike.

I used to earn lots more by selling rabbits and game i had shot to local butchers shops

Not bad earnings from the age of 9.

Stu.

Not by me.

I love Slade.

One of the first bands after TRex to use a stereo sound system when playing live.

Jim used to come and listen to kit where i worked every week or two in the 70's while shopping with his misses.

One morning i had Jim, Mick Ronson and Michael Caine all listening to Mike Oldfield's Ommadawn album then put on Slade Alive on a Gale TT.

Stu.

Bought from Woolworths, circa 1972 with a mixture of "spends" (pocket money wasn't a phrase we poor kids used) and money from helping the milkman. I still have it and play it. I never tire of Rod's Mercury output.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme by Simon and Garfunkel. Still have it and it still sounds wonderful. Every time i play it i am astonished how well it has survived the 44 years i have had it.  The start of a long and quite expensive hobby! Worth every penny tho'.

I remember my very first LP. I also used to frequent my local Woolies who had a nice LP selection!!!

It was my birthday and I asked my mum for Aladdin Sane. Anyhow not sure what happened maybe she didn't like the cover but instead I received Elvis Presley Golden Greats a sort of K-Tel compilation of hits!!!!

I see you were a country bumpkin like me. I used to go rough shooting on my friends farm with a 202 rifle, but only for the pot. I wasn't as enterprising as you Stu until I was 15 and started diving. I then did a similar thing with a friend selling crabs, lobsters and scallops to the hotels/restaurants during my summer holiday. With some the earnings my mates and I would spend the last 2 weeks of the holiday surfing in Cornwall. Ah, those were the days.

Steve

I still play it and the version of Sitting On Top Of The World' therein would be my choice if I could only ever hear one piece of music for the rest of my days.

Luvly!

Pink Floyd The Wall

Bought it in 1969 shortly after my very first "Hi-Fi" system.

Jethro Tull's Benefit for ten shillings. Still gets regular outings - so at least I got it right once!

My first single was Boney M, sunny. Oh dear, I think I redeemed myself with the second single, Sex Pistols, Holidays in the sun which I still have, Then the Stranglers, no more heroes.

On the album side, the first album I bought was The Who, Tommy, I was told it was brilliant, got it home and did not understand it at all, it was shelved for years before I started playing it again and even now it does not do anything for me. The second album I purchased was on offer, it was sid sings by sid vicious, the biggest heap of crap in the whole world and the poster was rubbish too, no wonder it was on offer. I learn by my mistakes.