Do You Recall Your First Ever CD Purchase?
Tornado Red
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At the risk of this thread being brought up a hundred times before...a recent new speaker purchase has me going through my library again. My son, daughter and I met for dinner before Christmas and the "first ever" purchase was brought up. I remember it like it was yesterday, what amazed me was that they both did as well. My daughter was around, but my son wasn't even born yet. Music was always a big part of our lives, and still is. Truely compelling what we pass along to our children without even knowing... oh, and it was Supertramp's Breakfast In America. Not exactly an audiophile's dream, but the disc still plays some 30 years later.
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I was late to the CD revolution and thought they were a fad and so I hung on to my cassette player til 1990. At that point I finally gave in and bought a Pioneer 6 disc changer for my car and the first CD I bought had to be my favorite which was Queensryche's Empire.polkaudio sound quality competitor since 2005
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For me Garth Brooks for the wife the Extremes.
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1986, Papa Do-Ron-Ron, a Beach Boy cover ban, DDD, still have it and sounds great. Used it to audition new gear when we actually had hi-fi stores, used it to audition Magnaplanar MG2?....couldn't afford them....but I got 'em now.:razz:Main Family Room: Sony 46 LCD, Sony Blue Ray, Sony DVD/VCR combo,Onkyo TXNR 708, Parasound 5250,
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I bought two discs at the same time... Quiet Riot's Metal Health, and The Beatle's Abbey Road way back in 1983. Wish I never opened Abbey Road, as it is among the rarest cd's ever released and is worth a fortune in mint condition with the obi attached.The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD
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You know it's funny, but I can't remember the first CD I bought. However, I do remember the first LP I bought. It was one of the very first "Top of the Pops" series. I was very young and living in England at the time. Not sure if they were ever released anywhere other than England. Anyway, I either threw it away at some point or it went with all my other LP's when I sold them. Probably should have kept it for nostalgia's sake.Political Correctness'.........defined
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Mine were actually purchased through a CD club. Remember those?:rolleyes: I purchased Led Zeppelin I through Coda all at the same tme! They were three CD's for a penny! And I had to only purchase one! I did that a couple times and got all the Zeppelin CD's! Then I quit the BMG club and started purchasing at my local CD stores (Tower Records, CD warehouse, Rhasputin's, etc.)
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Something by Deep Purple I remember. Think it was Knocking at your Backdoor.
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It was about 1991, Dr. Dre's "The Chronic". I actually had a "front loading" CD player, it opened like a cassette player.Polk Fronts: RTi A7's
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Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms and a Magnavox cd player in 1985.
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I have no clue. IIRC, my first CD purchase was actually the purchase of about 10-12 CD's at the local LP turned CD shop. Didn't even have my CDP yet and I ended up purchasing about 150 or so CD's before one was ever purchased. That was a lot of lawns back then.
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I have no clue. IIRC, my first CD purchase was actually the purchase of about 10-12 CD's at the local LP turned CD shop. Didn't even have my CDP yet and I ended up purchasing about 150 or so CD's before one was ever purchased. That was a lot of lawns back then.
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Lawn mowing was my introduction to the working world back in the day, paid for my first vinyl LP, Black Sabbath self titled. But early 80's, cd's were out, and I was playing music videos on my Sony Hi-Fi Beta machine, with my Sony amp, Sony ProFeel 27" monitor, and Advent speakers......could life get any better? -
I resisted the move to CD until '89. I too, joined one of the mail order clubs and got G-n-R "Appetite for Destruction", Eagles "Hotel California", Led Zeppelin "Houses of the Holy" and Willie Nelson "Stardust".If you can't hear a difference, don't waste your money.
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The Outfield Play deep and then I went out and got a Technics 5-disc player and hooked it up to my Scott receiver.
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My first CD purchase was actually a mistake. I had ordered a bunch of titles from one of the music clubs. Instead of a cassette, they sent me a CD of Jimi Hendrix, Kiss the Sky. Rather than go through the hassle of returning it, I went out & bought a Magnavox CDB-650, & my journey down the rabbit hole began.
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Tornado Red, that's funny I also remember recording lots of music videos on my Sony superbeta back in the early/middle 80's when MTV first came out. They weren't even on the air all the time, there was a window in the early morning when they were off the air. Don't remember the first CD I ever bought, but I remember the first Lp, a friend of mine and I went to a record store after purchasing 45's for a long time and were going to each buy our first LP. He bought Jimi Hendrix's first album and I bought Blood, Sweat and Tears. The next day at school, my friend said he couldn't stand that Hendrix album and I told him I couldn't stand the BS&T, so we swapped and I played that Hendrix album every day before school for a year and half straight. He loved the BS&T too.
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Christine McVie's first solo album. At the time, 99% of CD's were only classical music, so there wasn't much to pick from---and I had just bought a Sony's first CDP. Still have that CD, it's recorded quite well.Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Shop Spkrs: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2
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My dad was mean. He didnt like grunge so I was never allowed to keep cds in the house. So my first CD purchase was when I go my first car.
The cds where
Radiohead Kid A
Smashing Pumpkins Greatest Hits
Pearl Jam Ten
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Early on, Rykodisc combined two Zappa titles on one cd. One of them was "Overnight Sensation/Apostrophe". I bought a copy about a year before I bought my first cd plyr.
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bought these together...late 1985....jeff beck: wired & blow by blow...dire straits: S/T & communique...pink floyd: wish you were here & animals
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No,, but I can tell you that my first 8 track purchase was "Vanilla Fudge",I can go on but do not want to screw with this thread.JC approves....he told me so. (F-1 nut)
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I was late to the CD revolution and thought they were a fad and so I hung on to my cassette player til 1990. At that point I finally gave in and bought a Pioneer 6 disc changer for my car and the first CD I bought had to be my favorite which was Queensryche's Empire.
I can completely identify with this. I bought a mid-fi Sony player in 1990 as I was leaving for my first full time teaching gig in N.E. Didn't buy a CD till I reached my final destination. I was in a Phil Glass phase at the time so I'm pretty sure it was Phil's Solo Piano CD (or, possibly; Songs from Liquid Days). One of those.
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I do remember, and I still have the long cardboard boxes they came in. Remember those? I think I did pretty well for my first purchase. It was Nirvana - Nevermind, Pearl Jam - Ten, and the Metallica black album. 1991 was a great year for music.
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Of course. Who could forget? Didn't ever keep any of them though...I do remember, and I still have the long cardboard boxes they came in. Remember those?
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