What was the first CD you bought?
Posted by: Massimo Bertola on 29 January 2017
I am curious about the 'affair' between musical and technological attraction that acted on the moment of our first purchase. Was it motivated by the wish for a new sonic experience? By the obstinate love for a certain composition? Was it pop, jazz, classical? Was it oriented by magazines? Was it a bet?
In my case, the very first CD I bought was Supertramp's Breakfast in America. I didn't even had a CD player yet. It must have been somewhere in 1986, and I was aching to have one of those new things in my hands. In the summer of '79 I had spent a couple of weeks at the seaside and met a nice girl. For days and days a small group of friends, including me and her and a cousin of mine, was like suspended in a magical time of relax and thrill and new feelings. We played a cassette tape of Breakfast in America over and over, whatever we were doing, wherever we were going. For months after that, the sound of that disc was still drenched in the atmosphere of that vacation. When, a few years later, I found myself in the record shop with the itch to buy a compact disc, I ended up choosing that one.
What about you?
Kevin-W posted:I bought my first CD in 1985, six years before I acquired a CD player!
The CD was The Durutti Column's Domo Arigato, a live album recorded in Japan and released on Factory (FACD 144). It became something of a talking point, because when it was released in August '85, it was the first non-classical album to be released solely on CD; there was no vinyl or tape version.
I managed to make a tape of it (my then brother in law was a flash git who had to have the latest tech - he had a garish Trio stacking system so I recorded the CD onto a TDK SA90), although the album is, it has to be said, rather dull and arid, with a very harsh "early digital" sound).
I didn't get a CD player until 1991 - a Nakamichi CD 4:
There are two variants of the '85 UK release. One with Factory logo, the other without, both printed in Japan
https://www.discogs.com/master/view/89348
like many other issues at that time, i also have the first UK edition of Duran Duran debut album printed in Japan as well.
Btw my very first cd i bought, has been probably in ' 89 Peter Gabriel - So with picture label, i had not a player then.
Regards
Roberto
Haim Ronen posted:My first CD player was purchased as a present by my visiting brother (from Europe) thinking that I was way behind times listening to music through a silly LP-12.. The thing sounded painfully bright but its dead silent background as well as the idea that you could listen to music for a full hour without having to get up to flip the disc was mesmerizing.
First CD purchased which still sounds very good today was the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields playing Mozart's horn concertos:
A very elegant choice. When I was young I only knew (and had) the recording by Dennis Brain with Herbert Von Karajan. I first knew of Alan Civil on the liner notes for Revolver, where he played the solo on For no one. It was strange to see his name so big on Philips discs and so small on the Beatles' cover...
Kevin-W posted:I didn't get a CD player until 1991 - a Nakamichi CD 4:
I had one of those too! Slightly warm sounding, very charming..
Back in 1986 I had an Ariston RD80/LVX/K9/Rotel 840/Heybtook HBS1 and dem'd a Sony CDP and metaphorically ran out the demo room. Held out to 1991 and bought an Arcam Alpha CD - brilliant player for £400. Lasted until 2005 to be replaced by CDX2. Now CDS3.
On the day I bought the Arcam I bought the Nightfly by Donald Fagin, On Every Street by Dire Straits and Famous Blue Raincoat by Jennifer Warnes and I still love all 3 albums - so much so that I've bought them all again on vinyl since 
Regards,
Lindsay
My niece Greta's, age 10, first 3 CDs:
I bought them for her when she was born, on June 15, 2007, as a present along with a mini JVC stereo system:
that still works.
Who knows if she will ever play them? She spins fairy tales and children songs, plus a collection of classical pieces for children by Classic FM; and songs from Frozen and so on... But I haven't lost hope.
My first CD's where Dire Straits, Bothers In Arms and Paul Simon's Graceland. Pretty much de-rigueur for the mid Eighties. Purchased to be played in my newly acquired Toshiba XJ-R9;
This was connected to my Pioneer Midi Hi Fi system that looked much like Eloise's Pye!
The Toshiba was awful, so very quickly replaced (in a few days as I worked for Rumbelows as a YTS at the time!!) with a Philips CD104, I loved this, it was built like a Bomb Shelter and weighed a tonne. To this day I regret selling it.
I still have Brothers In Arms, not sure what happened to Graceland.
First Cd's were
Kate Bush -Hounds of Love ( had taken back 3 copies on vinyl with faults- the prompt to move to Cd)
Dire Straits- Brothers in Arms
Tangerine Dream- The Dream Sequence
The Cd player was the Denon DCD 1500- lovely machine, twin DAC's. Still got it in its box in the loft.
Steve
It was fitness disk. I am kind of fitness nerd 'cause for the whole my life I was fat 
I was dreaming about losing weight and gaining some muscles. I became interested in bodybuilding. I started to take anabolic steroids (pls don't judge me). It was a really hard period in my life but in 3 months I achieved desirable results.
The reason I took the knife to the piggy bank and bought my Naim CDS in 1993:
Alison Moyet - Alf.
On one of these.
I guess I followed much the same path as many folks did at the time, which was to rush out and buy the CD of an already owned vinyl album, just to see what all the fuss was about.
At least the album stood the test of time. 
Paul Davies posted:The reason I took the knife to the piggy bank and bought my Naim CDS in 1993:
One entry for King Crimson! Bravo.
Borders Nick posted:I returned from a year the US in 1987 having been converted to the advantages of CDs by listening to a friends system and bought a Technics CD player (it's still in the loft I think) in JG Windows store in Newcastle. I think it fed a Pye receiver and Celestion Ditton speakers.
There was a special offer of three free CDs (not to be sniffed at in those days !). These two were chosen but I can't remember what was the third - that's going to bug me now til I remember .....
Pheeww.. I finally remembered the third one.
