A friend of mine posted this on Facebook. I thought it was pretty funny.

Can you remember yours?

The first vinyl my parents bought for me was Sesame Street Fever. The first vinyl I bought with my own money was Kiss' Love Gun.

My first download? I have no idea.

I believe my first vinyl was the Police's Ghost in the Machine - could have been a lot worse.

I distinctly remember the first file I nicked through napster: Yo La Tengo's cover of Jackson Browne's Somebody's Baby.

damosuzuki said:

I believe my first vinyl was the Police's Ghost in the Machine - could have been a lot worse.

I distinctly remember the first file I nicked through napster: Yo La Tengo's cover of Jackson Browne's Somebody's Baby.

I'm impressed.

The peer-to-peer platforms pretty much escaped my consideration. I'd been thinking only of online music stores. If I throw in sites like Bearshare, Limewire or Pirate Bay, I'm almost certain my first download would've been some crappy Prince boot.

You are asking way toooo much...

I want to say is was a gospel record? Hell, I can't remember.

My Napster days (RIP)..... I grabbed so much shit its all blended in,it was probably movie soundtracks, early stuff.

I remember.

I had MP3's years before Napster.

[img:$uid]http://prince.org/i/icon2.gif[/img:$uid] My first MP3 was "Around The World" by Daft Punk.

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Ironically, the memory of my first vinyl purchase is not as clear.

GREAT post, Lamm

First vinyl was at a 7-11 (yeah they sold RECORDS at times) in 1976. K-Tel's "Mind Bender".....

yeah..I'm not proud . 10,000+ slabs of vinyl later.....

First DL was Tony Toni Tone ("House of Music"..great fucking album)

I do not remember any of the children's records my parents bought for me which I'm sure predate everything else, but the first 'adult' 7" I owned was "Hot Line" by the Sylvers:



The first LP I ever bought with my own money was the Grease movie soundtrack two years later.

To find my first downloads I had to search on iTunes to get the answers. It told me the first legal download I purchased was U2's "Two Hearts Beat As One". I had ripped their Best Of 1980-1990 CD to my computer and bought a few other songs digitally because I felt the album was incomplete.

But the illegal download with the earliest added date was before then and most likely the first track in this thread: http://prince.org/msg/7/144871

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I can't remember my first vinyl purchase or my first mp3 download. I remember my first CD purchase tho, Lionel Ritchie's "Dancing On the Ceiling".

My first vinyl was Anne Murray's "Highly Prized Possession" when I was 8 years old. My mother bought it for me. Always loved her smooth, deep voice, but the first one I ever bought for myself with my own money was Natalie Cole's "Thankful" album. THEN, the monster was created and I'm a full-fledged music junkie ever since! My first mp3 I can't remember cuz since I got "with the times" and bought myself an mp3 player, I've been pretty addicted as well.