I'm talking about the album or single you got when you were maybe eight years-old and you still have it in its now weathered package.

So what is it?

record - Jack & The Beanstalk: 6 Favorite Stories (I still have most of my kiddie records and listen to them sometimes)

cassette - Stacy Lattisaw ~ With You

cd - The Jacksons ~ The Jacksons

I also have some 8 tracks, but they didn't originally belong to me. I have a deck that works to play them on. The oldest is a greatest hits by Fats Domino on Pickwick Records. It was my grandmother's tape.

BT Express - Non Stop

I was 6. I wanted the album with "Never Knew Love Like This Before" but store clerk at The Wiz (that was the name of the record store) convinced me to get this one.

Like A Virgin on cassette. I imagine all of the titles are rubbed or smudged from the cassette cart.

( Definitely, definitely - Rain Man)

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James Brown "Sex Machine Today" (1975). My dad bought it for Me in the Summer of 1975 for My 8th Birthday. And I STILL have it!!

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Do 8 tracks count?

Foreigner~ 1977 8 track.

RJOrion said:

RJ you are the man! I was just about to post EWF ALL N ALL. First album I actually bought with my own money, might be the best album I ever bought! I love Open Our Eyes too, classic.

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It was my older brother's but I kept it and it is my favorite Beatle album

BalladofPeterParker said:

RJOrion said:

BalladofPeterParker said:

RJ you are the man! I was just about to post EWF ALL N ALL. First album I actually bought with my own money, might be the best album I ever bought! I love Open Our Eyes too, classic.

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i saw the All N All tour at Madison Sqare Garden before the album came out...greatest show i ever saw in life... when i first heard "Fantasy" for the first time that night i damn near caught the Holy Ghost... IMO, "All N All" might be the greatest album ever made by anyone...listening to that joint was always a spiritual experience for me. i got on my parents nerves playing it nonstop.

Yessir Player! All N All has damn near every style of music I love ( not too mention one of the coolest album covers inside and out). I go back and forth between this and "That's the Way of the World" whenever people ask me my favorite album of all time. If I could only have one I guess I have to say All N All. Helluva first album purchase huh?!

My first vinyl (and possibly the first piece of music I ever bought) was Madonna's 1st Album. I still have it. I was buying cassettes before CDs but I can't remember my first tape. I know I chucked out a bunch of tapes when I "grew up". My first CD however was given to me as a gift by my mom when she bought me a CD player. It was Boys Club on MCA Records.

Purely out of sentimental reasons, I still have it but it's actually not bad for a 1988 one hit wonder. I would post an image but I forgot how to.

BalladofPeterParker said:

RJOrion said:

BalladofPeterParker said: i saw the All N All tour at Madison Sqare Garden before the album came out...greatest show i ever saw in life... when i first heard "Fantasy" for the first time that night i damn near caught the Holy Ghost... IMO, "All N All" might be the greatest album ever made by anyone...listening to that joint was always a spiritual experience for me. i got on my parents nerves playing it nonstop.

Yessir Player! All N All has damn near every style of music I love ( not too mention one of the coolest album covers inside and out). I go back and forth between this and "That's the Way of the World" whenever people ask me my favorite album of all time. If I could only have one I guess I have to say All N All. Helluva first album purchase huh?!

.. ... the "Spirit" lp cover and the "ALL N ALL" lp blew my mind as a teenager... still do

EmmaMcG said:

Michael Jackson's Thriller album was the first album I ever bought. I got it in 2001 when I was 11. It's still in perfect condition. All my CDs are like new. I have, however, inherited some of my mother's old albums but they're mostly in terrible condition and mostly on cassettes. I don't know if they still work because I have no tape player. Among her collection is Sheila E's Glamorous Life on vinyl. There's also a Sheila E single lying around somewhere. She must have been a bit of a Sheila E fan. No Prince stuff though. I wonder how one goes about becoming a Sheila E fan without being a Prince fan too? Weird.

I was thinking the same thing too. Something in the water does not compute

MickyDolenz said:

record - Jack & The Beanstalk: 6 Favorite Stories (I still have most of my kiddie records and listen to them sometimes)

cassette - Stacy Lattisaw ~ With You

cd - The Jacksons ~ The Jacksons

I also have some 8 tracks, but they didn't originally belong to me. I have a deck that works to play them on. The oldest is a greatest hits by Fats Domino on Pickwick Records. It was my grandmother's tape.

Wow I still have a lot of mine as well, just kept them in my closet (standing up and not in a pile which would break the records at the bottom of the pile) I have some Space 1999, Batman, Spiderman, six million dollar man, GI Joe, Fantastic 4, ScoobyDoo, Funky Phathom, Star Trek and even some seasme streeet records.

Bought this Whodini debut album in 1983 and I still have it, and it´s in good condition.

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PennyPurple said:

Do 8 tracks count?

Foreigner~ 1977 8 track.

Do you still have it? And a working 8-track player?

useless B-side on it

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My James brown 45's from the 60's.

sexton said:

PennyPurple said:

Do 8 tracks count?

Foreigner~ 1977 8 track.

Do you still have it? And a working 8-track player?

Yes, both. But haven't thrown an 8 track in since at least 1990.

PennyPurple said:

sexton said:

Do you still have it? And a working 8-track player?

Yes, both. But haven't thrown an 8 track in since at least 1990.

Nice. The last time I played an 8-track was in the 80s. That player I had is long gone to somewhere I don't recall.

sexton said:

PennyPurple said:

Yes, both. But haven't thrown an 8 track in since at least 1990.

Nice. The last time I played an 8-track was in the 80s. That player I had is long gone to somewhere I don't recall.

One of my hubby and mines 1st purchase after we were married, we purchased a stereo set, It had 2 huge ass speakers, a turntable, 2 cassette players and an 8 track. We still have it, and it is useable, although the foam that was in front of the speakers has long fallen off.

We had a little 13 inch black and white TV, but we had our eyes on this stereo. Both of us combined had a lot of albums, 8 tracks and cassettes, we still have every single 1 of them.

PennyPurple said:

I was going to say Shannon's Let the Music Play vinyl LP which I bought in early 1984, but found the S.O.S. Band's "Just Be Good to Me" 7" single in my collection which I got the previous year so that's my answer.




I had many records I bought earlier like the Grease soundtrack and Thriller, but all of those were either sold or given away.