What was the first ever record you bought?

Embarassed to say my memory tells me it was Gary Glitter rock and roll (part iv)?

It was on cassette so maybe that doesn't count

First record I owned was Pink Floyd The Wall which a mate from school taped onto a cassette for me.

First record I physically bought myself was AC/DC Back In Black

First CD was Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA

Proud or embarrassed?

Neither really Tan. I've sold and rebought  the AC/DC one a couple of times and now have it on both vinyl and CD.

I've got The Wall on vinyl and CD.

The Springsteen album is probably the one that has aged least well.

Believe me, in a collection of 800+ albums I've got things I'm much more embarrassed about than these three but perhaps that should be another thread (if it hasn't been done already).

The first album I remember buying. No embarrassment involved now or then 

Yes me too. All part of the journey though eh?

Yes good idea for a thread, I've got a few beauties to put in!!

It was one of the things when I moved to streaming. during the process of ripping ones CD collection you come across a number of horrors which hadn't seen light of day for years and others you'd forgotten you owned. Then there are the "great" albums which don't seem quite so "great" after that first play years later. It is very much part of the fun.

Theres probably enough ideas for two or three new threads there !

I think the first ever record I bought was Little Red Rooster/This will be the last time AA side 45 by the Stones, My sister got it for me from my pocket money, I was around 7 or 8 at the time I think? First LP, well that's an easy one to remember Pink Floyd DSOTM and I still have that same copy along with various others on different formats over the years. So must be proud on both counts even as a young whipper snapper had good taste lol.

Bought these on the same day in a music shop called Rythms in Redhill, Surrey in 1978.

I was only 10....must have been several weeks hard earned pocket money to afford two records!!

Aged 8 with money given by my Nan. Bless her. I still have it in my collection.

You need to go to Specsavers Steve.  It's the Animals. Having said that I did get the Troggs From Nowhere sometime after.

My first purchase was a 45 rpm single: Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love (and the only chord I ever learned to play on guitar)  

This one bought in Scarborough aged 11.

Like Steve J with my own money and still in my singles collection.

Graham.

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I’m pretty sure this was the one, Glad All Over, and Bits and Pieces were my personal favourites when i was a sweet little pony tailed 9 year old.

However, at the time i could not understand why my father seemed so uninterested, and never joining in with the fun and frolics of floor-board stomp dancing.

Anyway,after a few months of my enthusiastic ownership my beloved DC5 LP went missing, and i clearly remember to this day going downstairs from my bedroom to ask Dad if he knew where it maybe, but he just sat there, coughed slightly, rustled his newspaper and carried on reading his Daily Mail.

Debs

Nice story Debs. Great to reminisce isn't it? Takes you right back there doesn't it? 

Ah! that's nothing, by the time i was 10, i'd gone right off and forgotten all about Dave Clark who?

And.. at aroundabout 11, i purchased a Shakin Stevens and the Sunsets Record,

now there's a fine Welsh boyo if there ever was one!

Debs

Well, you say that..... I'm patriotic up to a point Debs

Reading this thread has made me come over all nostalgic and old !!!!!

So as I type the P9 is playing Slade's Old New Borrowed and Blue.  I still remember having the argument with my Mother about spending several weeks of paper round earnings on a record.  Some nice songs but the production leaves a little to be desired.

I can't remember the actual first records I bought, but it was Little White Bull by Tommy Steele and Stagger Lee by Lloyd Price I was given for Christmas.

Awesome song! 1959 I believe.