Mine was Lovesexy by Prince.

At the time, I was NOT sold on the "cd" as a new meduim. I was hesitate 2 evey buy cd's becuase u could not record on the meduim. I thought it was a waste of money. I had owned the DAT player, the Digital cassette and I rarely used either of those formats.

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Trout Mask Replica by Capt Beefheart

It was about 1 1/2 years til I would buy a CD player! But it was on sale & I knew I'd want it in my collection once I got a player.

I think my 2nd CD purchase might have been Beefheart also - the 2fer of Spotlight Kid & Clear Spot, bought the same day as the player in early 92. I was real into him at the time & all his LPs were out of print.

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The first cd that I bought was:

My parents bought Marvin Gaye's greatest hits originally for me, but this was the first one I saved up and purchased for myself.

bobzilla77 said:

Trout Mask Replica by Capt Beefheart

It was about 1 1/2 years til I would buy a CD player! But it was on sale & I knew I'd want it in my collection once I got a player.

I think my 2nd CD purchase might have been Beefheart also - the 2fer of Spotlight Kid & Clear Spot, bought the same day as the player in early 92. I was real into him at the time & all his LPs were out of print.

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That reminds me, I paid a crap load of money 4 my first cd player.....it was about $500 4 a Sony.

My first Cd was KISS:Alive!

Long before I even owned a CD player I ordered a whole box of them for a penny or a quarter from Columbia Records & Tapes Club. Let's see, there was...

Karyn White

Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814

Electronic

Anita Baker - Giving You The Best That I Got

Exposé - What You Don't Know

Bobby Brown - Don't Be Cruel

The La's

I think that was all of them. I used to just stare at the shiny discs.

I bought two at the same time, and I bought these two specifically because I thought they were the best albums I'd ever heard. And almost 30 years later, I still do! The CDs were:

"Purple Rain" - Prince
"Born in the USA" - Bruce Springsteen

tlc's crazysexycool though I had tons of records and tapes already, and we had cd's but they were not for me and mainly compilations and greatest hits my parents bought.

Lionel Ritche "Dancing On the Ceiling" was the first CD in my household. The very first CD that I owned myself was Tina Turner's "Break Every Rule", which was given to me as a Christmas gift. I still got that sucker, too!

yanowha said:

Long before I even owned a CD player I ordered a whole box of them for a penny or a quarter from Columbia Records & Tapes Club. Let's see, there was...

Karyn White

Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814

Electronic

Anita Baker - Giving You The Best That I Got

Exposé - What You Don't Know

Bobby Brown - Don't Be Cruel

The La's

I think that was all of them. I used to just stare at the shiny discs.

Do u still own any of them?

Maestro Fresh-Wes - Symphony In Effect

HIStory by MJ in 2001 (that was a LONG time after the first CD in my household, though).

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Karyn White - Ritual of Love

I too fought the emergence of cd's.

I was real damn defiant. I even bought MJ's Dangerous

on vinyl which contained 2 lps in 1991. I finally gave in when i

bought Karyn White and cd players dropped way down.

Cinny said:

Maestro Fresh-Wes - Symphony In Effect

Of course it was. You are nothing if not consistent.

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For the life of me, I can't recall my first CD. I worked at a used wrecka sto at the time, and I got a MONSTER discount, so I underwent a pretty manic binge on music once I go tmy hands on a CD player.

The store allowed us to borrow opened material before purchasing it, though, and I do recall my first "signed out" CD as Prince's Parade.

My first ever CD purchase was Squeeze's Babylon and On. I bought it to replace a copy a friend bought and I subsequently lost.

Jodeci - "Diary of a Mad Band"

I bought my first 3 cds when I bought my first CD player. They were:

Soundtrack to The Last Emperor

Some Jody Watley CD

& Lovesexy

the first one back in 1988 or so was a Sampler

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a bargain! cost something like 15$ which at that time was considered CHEAP for a CD...

the first two proper artist releases I bought soon after roughly atr the same time (don't really know which one I got first)

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at that time most releases here were easier to get on vinyl than on CD, and it took a while til that changed, so I didn't switch to CD completely yet for some time

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Casettes my parents/sibling owned (that I took ) and played to death.

First CDs that I purchased (I brought them both at the same time)

Lammastide said:

Cinny said:

Maestro Fresh-Wes - Symphony In Effect

Of course it was. You are nothing if not consistent.

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dang, I have that one too and just NOW found out that guy's Canadian

Graycap23 said:

yanowha said:

Long before I even owned a CD player I ordered a whole box of them for a penny or a quarter from Columbia Records & Tapes Club. Let's see, there was...

Karyn White

Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814

Electronic

Anita Baker - Giving You The Best That I Got

Exposé - What You Don't Know

Bobby Brown - Don't Be Cruel

The La's

I think that was all of them. I used to just stare at the shiny discs.

Do u still own any of them?

I still own Janet, Electronic, and Exposé.

I think it was this one

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Don't have it anymore

Dancelot said:

Lammastide said:

Of course it was. You are nothing if not consistent.

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dang, I have that one too and just NOW found out that guy's Canadian

I think it was "Gratitude" by Earth, Wind & Fire. My older brother had the LP and hipped me to them when I was younger. So, when I earned my own money that was the first CD I bought. To this day, I still got a lot of catching up to do.

OMG, I have to reveal a big secret .... my personal first CD - Justified (Justin Timberlake).
..
but hey, I was only 10 years old

before that I was listening to various tapes and CDs of my older sister, we had similar tastes in that period.

RodeoSchro said:

I bought two at the same time, and I bought these two specifically because I thought they were the best albums I'd ever heard. And almost 30 years later, I still do! The CDs were:

"Purple Rain" - Prince
"Born in the USA" - Bruce Springsteen

Cool, almost like me. I bought three my first time CD shopping - Springsteen - Born in the USA, Prince - Around the World in a Day and Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms (cuz it was supposed to be one of the best sounding CDs).

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