I do not honestly remember the first album I purchased but it was very likely a "Weird" AL record or some movie soundtrack

first recording...i had a fraggle rock 45 when i was very young...and our parents bought my sister and i "thriller" whenever it came out, like 84 or whatever. the first one i got with my own money would have been one of the following three cassettes:

new kids on the block - hangin tough
mc hammer - please hammer don't hurt em
vanilla ice - extremely live

my first CD was pearl jam's "ten."

soylasagna wrote:

I never owned this record, but everybody I knew did.

It contained not one, but two of the Knack's odes to jailbait: "My Sharona" and "Good Girls Don't."

The first recording I ever bought was...Highlights from The Phantom of the Opera...no, seriously.
Man, I sucked then...still do.

The first record I ever owned was a 45 of Jim Croce's "Bad Bad Leroy Brown." My parents and grandmother bought me lots of 45's: Sweet, John Denver, Elton John, etc.

The first album I ever owned, as well as the first record I ever bought with my own money, was Jackson 5's Greatest Hits. It holds up.

my first was legacy of brutality. .Misfits.. 7th grade.

before that I had handmedown metalica records.

First tape (2nd grade): Thriller
First CD (age 11): R.E.M.'s Automatic for the People (the first single I ever bought was "Drive" off this album)

My first tape was "Knee Deep in the Hoopla" by Starship, not counting my Teddy Ruxbin tapes.

I remember my mom buying "Brothers in Arms" and the cassette was clear, I thought that was so cool at the time.

and

Three U2 records :
Boy, Unforgettable Fire and Joshua Tree all at once,
when I bought my first cheap plastic "Sanyo" stereo with record player, age 15.
I had had few cassettes before that.
I didn't care about music till age of 13.