Around the world in a day. Bought it in 1985. First cd-player in 1986.

You guys all had CD players waaay before anyone I knew. We were late in our household but 1989 is the absolute earliest I remember anyone having one and they were the really rich kids.

Ellie said:

You guys all had CD players waaay before anyone I knew. We were late in our household but 1989 is the absolute earliest I remember anyone having one and they were the really rich kids.

I hadn't heard of CDs until 1987, and didn't buy any until 1990, which is when I bought a player. I didn't know anyone who had a CD player. The kids at school bought cassettes generally. The CD section in the record store was small and they came in those long boxes.

Cinny said:

namepeace said:

When the family first got a CD player this was the first CD purchased.

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This is the first CD I purchased when I got my own player in the summer of 1989.

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DAS HOT I do recall the days of very terrible compilation cover art, especially from Motown.

Motown had HORRIBLE CD artwork PERIOD! It wasn't until the 00s that they started really doing a good job on their cd reissues.

daPrettyman said:

Cinny said:

namepeace said: DAS HOT I do recall the days of very terrible compilation cover art, especially from Motown.

Motown had HORRIBLE CD artwork PERIOD! It wasn't until the 00s that they started really doing a good job on their cd reissues.

They had the hits, but you're right.

MickyDolenz said:

Ellie said:

You guys all had CD players waaay before anyone I knew. We were late in our household but 1989 is the absolute earliest I remember anyone having one and they were the really rich kids.

I hadn't heard of CDs until 1987, and didn't buy any until 1990, which is when I bought a player. I didn't know anyone who had a CD player. The kids at school bought cassettes generally. The CD section in the record store was small and they came in those long boxes.

I thnk what held us off for so long was wanting to play music in the car and carry around on a walkman. Portable CD players were all crap until at least the mid 90s because they'd skip all of the time, and the same for having disc changers in cars which would usually have to be bought and installed if you didn't have a brand new car (and even then it would be those ones you'd keep in the trunk and would be stuck with 5/6 CDs until you could be bothered to change them).

I still had my cassette walkman up until 2002 because the discman didn't have radio on it. Before that I'd use Mini Discs because they were so small and easy to carry around and making your own playlists was easier than burning CDs.

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Jodeci-Forever My Lady

Ellie said:

MickyDolenz said:

I hadn't heard of CDs until 1987, and didn't buy any until 1990, which is when I bought a player. I didn't know anyone who had a CD player. The kids at school bought cassettes generally. The CD section in the record store was small and they came in those long boxes.

I thnk what held us off for so long was wanting to play music in the car and carry around on a walkman. Portable CD players were all crap until at least the mid 90s because they'd skip all of the time, and the same for having disc changers in cars which would usually have to be bought and installed if you didn't have a brand new car (and even then it would be those ones you'd keep in the trunk and would be stuck with 5/6 CDs until you could be bothered to change them).

I still had my cassette walkman up until 2002 because the discman didn't have radio on it. Before that I'd use Mini Discs because they were so small and easy to carry around and making your own playlists was easier than burning CDs.

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I can understand that.

I got my first cd player in December of 87 for Christmas. It was an Emerson that my mother got from Walmart. It was a cheap brand, but that cd player worked really well for a very long time.

I just started recording my cds to cassettes when I got a portable cd boom box (which was Christmas of 89), if I wanted to listen to it when we were in the car.

Most of the time, I didn't really listen to anything but the radio in the car because my mother didn't want me and my brother fighting over what to listen to. LOL!!

Who still owns the 1st few cd's u purchased?

I do.

Lovesexy

TTD 1st cd

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Graycap23 said:

Who still owns the 1st few cd's u purchased?

I do.

Batman

Unfinished Business

The Iceberg: Freedom of Speech

Lovesexy

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Sam Harris - Sam Harris

Bought it in 1986, a year before I bought my cd player!

I didn't get any CD's until 1993 for my 17th birthday. I finally got a CD player and it was one of those cheap sharp ones that would skip all the time.

Does nayone remember those CD's that would always skip around track 12 or your favourite song on an album, not matter how much you cleaned the discs or the heads?

The CD was The very best of Split Enz 1973 -1984. Split Enz were a New Zealand rock/pop/post punk group. That was April 30 1993, I still have it.

First black music CD was Special Generation (MC Hammers boys) Butterflies, totally unlistenable and a gift from my brother who bought it for 50 cents from a clearance store. That was June or July of 93.

First Prince CD was the Hits/Bsides in October 1993

First Madonna CD was immaculate collection on CD in March 94 and I got Bedtime stories when it came out in Late 94.

Cinny said:

daPrettyman said:

Motown had HORRIBLE CD artwork PERIOD! It wasn't until the 00s that they started really doing a good job on their cd reissues.

They had the hits, but you're right.

I can remember a thread a while back showing a Tina Marie complimation from 1987 with really bad pizazz style art with hot pink neon lettering, gray background with beige stripes. I think Motown went through some problems in those Jheryl Busby days when they lost their soul focus and chased trends with lightweight new jack swing artists like the Boyz, Today, Good girls and slight better artists like Another Bad Creation and Johnny Gill. They got nice looking and sounding CD's but all the oldtime artists and classic 60s guys got crappy complimations with like 8 or 9 songs on them, usually had re recordings that sounded terrible of the original songs.

Much better was the Hitsville box sets from 1993, with 8 discs in two 4cd sets that had a great coverage of all the big Motown hits of 1959 to 1992. I think from Barrett Strong's money through to End of the Road by boyz 2 men. I still have those discs, great memories.

Olivia Newton-John - Soul Kiss was my first CD back in 1986.

Graycap23 said:

Who still owns the 1st few cd's u purchased?

I do.

Lovesexy

TTD 1st cd

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Not me. My very first CD was Michael Jackson & the Jackson 5's Compact Command Performances.



I long ago sold it when I upgraded to The Jackson 5 Anthology. The second CD I ever bought was Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation, but I sold that CD too and then later rebought it (long story).

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I do still own the first CD.

Graycap23 said:

Who still owns the 1st few cd's u purchased?

I do.

Lovesexy

TTD 1st cd

uh yes.. actually I own EVERY CD I EVER purchased, I never sold even one item. same goes for vinyl

but what I did long ago (at the time when I started shifting from vinyl to CDs around 1990) is I gave a few vinyl albums to a cousin of mine, cause I replaced the record in CD format

these days I heavily regret that

Dancelot said:

Graycap23 said:

Who still owns the 1st few cd's u purchased?

I do.

Lovesexy

TTD 1st cd

uh yes.. actually I own EVERY CD I EVER purchased, I never sold even one item. same goes for vinyl

but what I did long ago (at the time when I started shifting from vinyl to CDs around 1990) is I gave a few vinyl albums to a cousin of mine, cause I replaced the record in CD format

these days I heavily regret that

When I got my 1st cd burner I went crazy making cd copies and selling a bunch of stuff.(1996)

I've repurchased almost every cd that I got rid of.

Graycap23 said:

Who still owns the 1st few cd's u purchased?

I do.

Lovesexy

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This was my first CD back in '88 and I still have it.

funkaholic1972 said:

Graycap23 said:

Who still owns the 1st few cd's u purchased?

I do.

Lovesexy

[Edited 6/5/13 13:31pm]

This was my first CD back in '88 and I still have it.

When did you buy Ice-T Power ?

Berlin Love Life..when CDs first camde out this was one of the very first

Cinny said:

funkaholic1972 said:

This was my first CD back in '88 and I still have it.

When did you buy Ice-T Power ?

Never saw it on CD myself, one guy had all his tapes and I remember in 1990 getting a dubbed copy of Power on one side of a tape and the other had The Iceberg. I loved those albums, Freedom of Speech, Girls LGBNAF and Power were my jams. There was a funny ass jam called Black and Decker where Ice T puts a power drill through "a motherfuckers head, I just what that shit would sound like?"

Haven't had that tape in years and yet I can still remember those jams in my head. Thanks for the memories.

Cinny said:

funkaholic1972 said:

This was my first CD back in '88 and I still have it.

When did you buy Ice-T Power ?

Haha, good one! Never bought it, but always loved the cover...

I honestly don't remember. I was a late convert to CDs - didn't buy my first player until...geez...1990, maybe? And I still have my turntable and buy stuff on vinyl.

My first CD might have been Diamonds and Pearls - but don't hold me to it.

i didn't get my first cd player until 1992. my first cd was the O[+> cd by prnce and the n.p.g., my first cassette tape i ever purchased was michael jackson's "bad", and i bought it at k-mart.

The very first album I ever bought with my own $ was when I was 13. It was Natalie Cole's "Thankful." CLASSIC!

I don't know about you guys in the US, but here in New Zealand, a lot of people held on to tapes and vinyl a bit longer than everywhere else because of cost.

In 1990 the price of a hit album had risen to about $19.95 but some rip off stores were charging up to $22. That was high enough as in 1987 it was $12.95 then $16.95 in 1988. The price stayed at $20 until about 2000.

At the same time CD's were between $32 and $35 for a big hit album and at least $29.95 when on sale. Most working NZer's could not afford that, plus also before 1995 most CD players sold here would skip the CD's and you never got a complete listening experience. Most of my 90s Cd's still skip on quality equipment.

It was common that lower quality CD and tape was used on music by black/ rap and youth type artists than classical CDs and prog rock. I had countless rap CD's and tapes that wore out after a few listens, mainly as they nknew these novelty chart artists songs had little appeal after a few months. So you paid twice as much for something half as good.

It wasn't until about 2002 - 2005 that chain stores like The Warehouse (NZ's answer to Walmart) and JB's Hifi a big Australian chain had megastores and as a result sold music CD's cheap, even now a big hit CD will cost $26 at the very most and is usually $19.95 and some albums are $12 after a year. To give you an idea, when MJ died the Warehouse was selling CD's of all his epic (Not Motown cheapies) albums for $6.95 each.

Try buying the MJ albums in 1995 at that price when I paid $69.95 for History, today at JB's you can get history for $8.99. One of my friends got jealous recently when I showed him my 11 Madonna albums for $39 and he had his 1994 Bedtime stories CD with original label of $35.95 still on it, all he had was a now broken jewel case and a few blurb notes and a CD that skips after track 8 for approximately $32 more.

Hence why a lot of people switched to CD slowly, as in the 90s and early 00s most of our CD players were made in China junk like Technica, Kambrook, Kenwood, Sharp, Transonic, Qualicraft and LG rather than Pioneer, Denon and the good brands.

Seriously guys some people went from tape to downloads around 2000 and skipped CD's altogether.

Another example of cost was the $31.99 I paid for my first Madonna Immaculate Collection CD in 1993 (My original was a tape that cost $20.95 in 1990), compare that to the $7.99 I paid for the last copy of it in 2007. The 90s tapes and CD's were all skipping and got chewed, the 2007 one is in perfect condition and I played it for a year before I finally got with it, bought an Ipod and entered the age of digital music.

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Oh man, my sister lived in New Zealand in 1993. I sent her mixtapes in the mail because CDs were so freaking expensive there, even with converting the currency.

Adorecream said:

In 1990 the price of a hit album had risen to about $19.95 but some rip off stores were charging up to $22. That was high enough as in 1987 it was $12.95 then $16.95 in 1988. The price stayed at $20 until about 2000.

At the same time CD's were between $32 and $35 for a big hit album and at least $29.95 when on sale. Most working NZer's could not afford that, plus also before 1995 most CD players sold here would skip the CD's and you never got a complete listening experience. Most of my 90s Cd's still skip on quality equipment.

Today it's the opposite, a record is sometimes double the price of a CD (at the average Best Buy/Wall Mart price). Many CD era albums wind up being a 2 record set, which can cost up to $40 (US). A single record album averages $17-$25, and more if 180 gram or Hi-Fi mixes/half speed/Mobile Fidelity. A 45 single (yes a few are still released) costs $5-$8. The $8 ones are generally EPs though. There's a mail order company that still releases pre-recorded albums on cassette that my mom orders from. Most cassettes there are $6.95, but some are a bit more.