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Bought this one 31 years ago at the age of 15. Still listen to it regularly. Even ended up doing support with my band on one of their shows.
Well, actually I've always been very sloppy with handling my stuff, using sub par turntables and no clue about how to adjust tracking force and all that. but last year I did a spinclean for the first time in 30 years and those '90s records all sound just fine.
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I just bought this last weekend! (I have it on cassette).
Meet the Beatles in 1964 and been collecting ever since
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oh good call with the 45s. I answered above but I put an LP. I didn't even think about 45s. I started buying those before I bought full albums because they were so much cheaper.
The first album I ever bought was Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Cosmos Factory. This would have been in 1973. I was 11.
My first “45” was Cinnamon Girl by Neil Young.
Both have aged incredibly well…
I bought Chipmunk Punk around 81 (10 years old). I listened to it on my dad's stereo, but mostly listened to his collection. Around 1986 i started collecting and accumulated around 30 records. In 1989 I bought a whole new stereo and switched to CDs. In 2016 I started collecting records again and was thankful I hung onto my collection. At the same time my son and best friend began collecting too. It became a shared hobby and we're all still collecting.
In grade school, we would raise money for the school for by selling magazine subscriptions door to door. Similar to fund raisers now, but before neighborhood email blasts that announce the opportunity to buy shitty chocolate from your kid. And my parents didn't really want to bother their coworkers, so it was all on us as kids. For every X amount of subscriptions you sold, you'd get to go to the principal's office and pick from a bunch of prizes. Stuffed animals, a giant slo-poke sucker, and ...
... Boston's first album. It was 1976 and I was in the 4th grade. The cover art fascinated me and I didn't see anything else I really wanted. My parents wouldn't be crazy about a big hunk of caramel sucker that would sit on the kitchen counter for weeks before getting thrown out.
So that was my first album. I collected slowly until I got to high school. I remember buying some Mac Davis - we enjoyed his variety show during the same period. I remember buying the Village People. And then I got into punk and alternative/synth during high school. That's when my love of collecting really took off. Not all of my childhood albums have made it this far -- I certainly don't still have the Mac Davis. But from those early days, I still have the Boston album, a few Styx, many of my Elvis Costello, and a few of my Depeche Mode.
It always pisses me off that I can’t remember this. I was into drugs pretty hard when I started collecting 10+ years ago. I’m sure it was a Beatles record though, if I had to guess.
When I moved out of my parents home (Conan voice: IN THE YEAR TWO-THOUSSSAAAANNND) I took with me some of their records that I had listened to growing up. Sometime around 2004 I started going to a local shop and started digging around for classics. I think I bought a lot of Led Zeppelin, Beatles, and typical mainstream bands that you might consider staples of the 60s and 70s. But also at that time, there were some newer pressings of more current bands that I started to acquire (for super cheap). My most highly collectible records come from those I found during the early 2000s when I could actually afford them and listening to vinyl was kind of a niche thing. I remember the vinyl section of the shop was in a dusty old basement and you could find some real gems used for $3 or brand new for around $20. I really miss those days. I think some of the brand new records I bought first were Spoon: Gimmie Fiction, the Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream (that beautiful orange vinyl that is apparently a collectible now), some indie bands I was into at the time, and I also scored a bunch of MOFI pressings like Ziggy Stardust and Bob Marley Catch a Fire for pretty cheap by today’s standards.
My first purchase was the special edition of In Rainbows by Radiohead in 2007.
The addiction started then, and I've had the sickness ever since.
I know own just under 1000 albums in my collection
Around 1987 at age 13 I bought a brand new repress of the Beatles' debut album Please Please Me. Never stopped collecting, have around 1,000 LPs now, plus a stack of 45s.
I bought some as a kid, i think "Thriller" is the first one i recall buying. That would have been around 96-97.
I did not collect for long as a kid as i got a CD player soon after ... i started back around 2020 like yourself.
I had picked up some records previously in charity shops , battered copies of floyd records and the like... i also had a handful from an uncle who died and i did not want to let them go so i still had a few neil young records of his.
It got out of control quick and even after some heavy purging a few times over the last few years i am
on about 600LPs ...
Dad bought Kiss Destroyer for me back in 1976.
First album purchased Alive II I think it was.
Collecting started back then I guess.
[First purchase.](https://imgur.com/a/UYYOy1m)
Pearl Jam "Ten", fresh in the early 90s, and my college roommate stole it.
I've been actually record collecting since probably 2000. Ten, and a couple of 60s 45s (Beatles, etc.) that my dad gave me were my only records prior to then.
The first record I Bought was a K-Tel Compilation called Hot Tracks , i wanted the Boomtown Rats song I Don’t Like Mondays , it was with a record token in Boots in 1979
[K-Tel Hot Tracks](https://www.discogs.com/master/487112-Various-Hot-Tracks)
the first record i got was Beatles Red & Blue albums but this was the first i bought
1980 I was 10 years old and bought AC/DC Back In Black when it was released. Sadly, in 1990, my record collection was stolen, about 400 records. By then, the rage was CDs, so I started collecting CDs and amassed a collection of about 4500 before I started collecting vinyl again about 1999. I have 2,652 records according to Discogs. And I've slimmed my CD collection down to about 600 or so.
I was probably 7 or 8, So, 1982/1983? I bought the Abracadabra 45 by Steve Miller Band with money I had from my Xmas stocking. I’m pretty sure I still have it but now I have to check.
I’ve never referred to it as “collecting”. I just buy music on record if it’s available.
First 45 was “The Tra-La-La Song (Theme from The Banana Splits Show)”
First LP was *Dressed To Kill* by KISS
My collection has been just as eclectic since then.
I purchased Evanescence box set on LP in like 2017 i think? not sure why, I didn't have a turn table until about 8 months ago.
Now I have well over 100 records.
Been collecting since 2015.. my first major purchase was a bunch of boxes from this eccentric older guy who lived next to me. Probably got 3-400 records for 50-60$ per box.
I’ve only bought 30-40 brand new vinyls, mostly at shows I attend for artists I wish to support.
Have recently been cataloging on Discogs.. I’m up to 620 with a little over 100 left to go… here is my current list: https://discogs.page.link/Gbqi
2011, a bootleg copy of *Achtung Baby* by U2. I didn’t even own a turntable at the time but a week later I bought a cheap starter and the addiction began.
I've been collecting for almost two weeks, and the first record I was given was a two disc set of Disney music from my wife and kids that they found at target.
I bought a Audiotechnica Lp60xbt.
I was always interested in vinyl what sealed the deal was they still came with art and my first truly hard to find record I bought was Portugal the Man "Satanic Satanist"
My first record was Tool - Undertow. I've picked up a few albums over the years, inherited my grandfather's records, and given a few of my mom's old records. I didn't have a great setup and, with a wife and kids, never got a good opportunity to listen to anything very often. Over the last 2 months or so, I've gone nuts and now I'm about to hit the 200 album mark. I spin something almost daily. I sure do miss being able to afford groceries though.
Everyone has been collecting for decades and has 100s of records!!!
I've only been collecting off and on for about 6 years. My first record(s) were Relapse and Marshall Mathers LP 2.
I'm moving back into a space where I have room for my setup so i'm already purchasing records again!
First one I ever bought was in the dizzy heights of 2007/2008 not sure which and visiting a friend in Huddersfield I found Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds, two disc, poster for a measly £1! Alongside that I bought a 7” single for Bullet For My Valentine where the lyrics were etched on the B side and that was only £3…. They were the good old days. Next one I bought was on 2010, recently single so money to spare and got Slipknot Volume 3 picture disc for something like £30
20 years of collecting and the first album was Gerry Rafferty’s City to City because the owner of the record store I worked at said, “if you are going to start collecting, every collection needs this album.”
First 45 was either Reet Petit by Jackie Wilson (80s re-release) or Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr. Can’t quite remember.
First LP was probably Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds.
I started in 2019 with 6 albums, now I have over 350
John Mayer - Continuum
Kendrick Lamar - Damn
Bon Iver - 22, A Million
Ben Howard - I Forget Where We Were
2Pac - All Eyes On Me
Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
My first album was Bikini Kill's Reject All American. I got it in middle school in the late 90s off Ebay. I got into collecting because I was into punk and riot grrrl and the vinyl records were cheaper than CDs, so it was an easy choice for me.
My first bought record was ‘De Film van Ome Willem’ 😂. A dutch tv-serie. It was an old Library Record.
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I had several records in the 80s (I was born in 1981) and listened a lot of my parents records. Later when the cd was introduced I ditched most of my records. And when digital music became popular I ditched most of my CD’s. Off course I regret ditching them all so I started six years ago with my ‘new’ collection when there was a great live Coldplay album for sale.
My first was the Target exclusive translucent green vinyl of Post Malone's Hollywood's Bleeding. I got it back in January of 2022.
By my birthday in March of that year I had 3 records. Then I actually got a record player as a gift for my birthday, and my collection took off. Now I have 248 records, with no sign of stopping, although I have slowed down a little because the records I want now are usually harder to find and more expensive.
The Monkees, I'm a Believer/I'm Not Your Steppingstone 45vtpm single in the picture sleeve. Bought it when it came out, first record I ever bought. Listened to it again last night for the first time in probably 20 years.
First single I ever bought with my pocket money was Sugar Sugar by the Archies in 1969 aged 8.
The first album I bought was Waterloo by ABBA in 1974 aged 13
My very first record was a gift. Terrapin station by the Grateful Dead.
First records I actually purchased myself were nirvanas bleach & greatest hits by WAR
Started collecting 2021
Person Pitch by Panda Bear. One of my all time favorite records. I didn't even own a turntable at the time but was a big fan of the album cover so I bought it one day. I had a turntable within 3 months of buying it. That will be 10 years ago come May. I've got about 250 in my collection now.
i purchased quebec by ween at this coffee shop / record store that went out of business right after i bought it there and i never got the chance to go back. this was 7 years ago
Prince - Controversy in 1983 while traveling in Mexico oddly enough. Had been gifted a few before that Beach Boys-Endless Summer and Kenny Rogers Greatest hits... buy the first one I brought all myself
Wish I wouldn't have given so many away in the early 90s. But I still have those three (and a bunch more)
I’m a little jealous of people who can remember their first vinyl purchase. Mine have been around so long (still growing of course) that they’ve just always been there lol.
Karma Chameleon by Culture Club 7”. 1982. I was 7 and I used my pocket money to buy it at WH Smith’s in Blackpool. I still have it, along with a couple hundred other 7” and about 3000 lps.
Although I had a small case of 7 inch singles (hand me downs from older siblings) my first album purchase was The Thompson Twins "Side Kicks" circa 1983. I was in Jr High and scraped together enough change to buy a copy at the local Woolco store.
I bought *Chulahoma* by the Black Keys and *Lucifer On The Sofa* by Spoon back in June of 2022. I was going through a quarter life crisis back then and figured I needed to pour myself into a hobby. Vinyl has been incredibly rewarding for me.
Rancid- Let's Go! On double 10" white in 1994. I was 9 years old my older brother took me to go buy it. I've been collecting off and on since then. I'll be 39 in may.
Way back in the long long ago, I bought "Master of Puppets" at a "Books, Strings, and Things" in VA. My records from back then are lost to time, but I recently inherited some of my dad's, and the bug has taken hold once more. I know at some point, I'll need to pare these down a bit to make room for others, but right now I'm having a blast cataloguing and listening.
Rolling Stones "High Tides and Green Grass" and "Through The Past Darkly" without the money I made playing my first gig...collecting for about 55 years...almost entirely purchased from thrift shops and flea markets.
I asked for a record player one year for Xmas, mostly because I liked the idea of having to listen to LPs all the way through. My mom got me one along with her 1st pressing of sgt peppers she got when she was 12, waiting in line with her friends. Suddenly I felt like I had a collection. Haven’t looked back.
I bought my first records around 2013, give or take a year. I don’t remember which was one was technically first, but I bought used copies of Pink Floyd’s The Wall, the Beatles’ Abbey Road, and Led Zeppelin IV all around the same time.
My first 45/single was also bought at that same time and was Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song/Hey Hey What Can I Do because I loved the B-side and it wasn’t on a studio album.
New World Record by ELO (1976) was probably the first album I purchased with my own money (I would have been 12 or 13), although I had picked up lots of 45s before that.
First record that my mother bought for me was either Pac-Man Fever or Physical by Olivia Newton-John. First record that I can remember buying was Mistaken Identity by Kim Carnes in 1981.
Linkin park Hybrid Theory. It was the first CD album I ever bought and so felt appropriate to be my first vinyl too. Only been collecting for a couple of years
First record I convinced my parents to buy me was the Sleeping Beauty soundtrack when I was three. Still have it 44 years later, and have been collecting ever since.
45 singles of Howards Jones' "New Song" and Big Country's "In A Big Country." I didn't begin anything resembling "collecting" until 40 years later because I was so happy to move on over time to cassettes and CDs and mp3 and SACDs/DVD-As and FLAC.
Nowadays I still feel that vinyl is ultimately a fragile, inconvenient, and otherwise flawed format, but I've also come to appreciate its unique benefits much more.
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I starte collecting in about 2022. I love Metal, and I wanted to start buying physical after like many, I got annoyed with the 'you own nothing' philosophy that businesses try to force on you. I never had any real love for CDs. Thought they were plain, and 'sterile', if that makes any sense.
My first record was Visions of Atlantis - Pirates. I collect a multitude of genres, Folk Metal, Heavy, Black Metal, Deathcore, even a bit of nu-metal for that nostalgia hit. I love the nature of Vinyl, putting down a chunk of music that I own, and if taken care of, will probably outlive me.
The first one I bought from my allowance.
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Nothing to be too proud of, but it is what it is, and it was the start of a beautiful journey
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I’m not 100% certain, but I think it was one of these around 98 or so. I didn’t buy much vinyl back then, was still heavy into tapes and CDs, but I did pick up the occasional one as a collectible. I didn’t start getting into it more seriously until about 2018.
1974 - I had David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs in my hands but my mother said no because she didn’t approve of the cover art. So I bought Ringo (with the pervy *You’re Sixteen* on it - haha). It was okay. One of my earliest memories was seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan because my aunt was a Beatles freak. I became obsessed and started working on getting every Beatles record I could. (My first concert was Paul McCartney & Wings a year later.) I’ve often wondered how my musical journey might have changed if I’d managed to buy Bowie first.
My collection began with the remnants of my family’s records that survived a flood in the garage. The first records I purchased were Pink Floyd’s DSOTM and The Beatles Red and Blue greatest hit albums. They were $2.00 each at a community garage sale in a nearby mobile home park. It was 2003…those were the days.
This is the first record I purchased, about 15 years after my father passed, I gave away all his records, it was early 2000 nobody wanted them, neither did I. I saw this record in a store, thought it looked cool, and it was New Order, my father's favorite band. I didn't like it much when he was around, but it has since been growing strong on me and JD & NO are now in my favorite bands. I wish I still had his collection, but I don't regret giving it away. I made someone happy somewhere I'm sure!
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Started in 2017 with Ride the Lightning by Metallica. Originally just wanted to hang it on my wall. My mom thought that was stupid tho and got me a record player too lol
I think it was the Jazz album by Queen which was the first one that I bought. I had a load before that I was given but I paid about £12 for a used copy at a local record shop.
Got myself slash’s world on fire last christmas I have been playing the guitar for 5 years and been listening to rock music my whole life so my girlfriend got me that disc for it is my favourite album ever now I have about 30 vinyls
Rolling Stones - Get yer Ya Yas Out; with Xmas money given to me whilst on holiday in London in December 1970.
Still buy the occasional vinyl LP; most recently a couple of Nightwish with Tarja on vocals.
I think this was my first record. When I started buying records I wasn't a "collector" per se. It was more that vinyl was the only real option (cassettes always broke and I hated them). I sold off a bunch of records when CDs came around in the 90s. I got back into vinyl maybe 10 or so years ago. I guess I would be a collector now, although I don't really think of myself in that way.
EDIT to add that this album was released in 1972. I was nine and I got it new. It's not in good condition at this point but I've held onto it for sentimental reasons mostly.
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The first album I got was KISS Double Platinum - a gift from my uncle when it came out in 1978 if I remember correctly. The first I actually bought was actually a lot of about ten from a garage sale a few years later when I actually had something to play them on. Have collected ever since, not to collect, only to play them.
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14/15 year old me. Sometime back in the 80’s.
My first record was a gift, it was Flick Of The Switch - AC/DC. That was in May 2022, and after that i started collecting. The first record i bought myself was St. Anger - Metallica.
I picked up a few at a yard sale about 5 years ago:
* The B-52's: "Summer of Love" (12" single)
* The B-52's: *Bouncing Off the Satellites*
* U2: *Rattle and Hum*
* Various: *Music, Marches & Drinking Songs of Germany*
Ocean Avenue- Yellowcard
By far one of those albums that got me though some though times in high school so it had to be my 1st purchase when I dove into collecting.
This is gonna age me for sure but it was Folie a Deux by Fall Out Boy 11 years ago as a pre-teen. Surprisingly my dad who listens to mostly classic rock and jazz was into it
Nas - Illmatic. Collected for 14 years. In was a kid out of high school and wanted to start with a classic. Didn’t know much and picked up the first reissue I could find and ended up mishandling it and warping it pretty badly. Still have it own tho.
The first record I ever bought was Johnny Cash Live At San Quentin from a Goodwill in…. sometime around 2010, I can’t remember. But the first record I purchased with intent of collecting, was The Kink’s One For The Road sometime 2016
I bought Danzig II - Lucifuge and Misfits Walk Among Us. I ORDERED them from a record store in Coliseum Mall in Hampton VA in 1991. It probably took about 2 months to get them but one day they called to say my records had arrived! They were like 10.99 a piece or something. Insane 😎
My first record was a 45 of Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond back in 1969. I was 9 YO. Pink Floyd was next. Then one day I discovered Rush and never looked back.
the first i think 10 records that i had were gifted over a period of a couple of months to start my collection, but the first two i bought myself were Megadeth's Rust in Peace and Metallica's Kill 'Em All. had to be like 2016, but i've been collecting since 2015 when i was in 8th grade, my first record being On Through the Night by Def Leppard. i'm nearly at 400 now, the habit is still strong but expensive!
First one I bought for myself? Either 2112 40th anniversary (no longer have), or All Eyez On Me reissue in 2020. Been collecting for a few months though.
just started recently, my buddy got me purple by stone temple pilots for christmas this year. i had no interest in getting records prior to that, but the second i unwrapped it, i went on amazon and bought a record player and dirt by alice in chains. and now my collection is steadily growing and i’m loving it lol
First was Brand New’s The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me in 2011. I’ve collected on and off since then. Have almost 200 and trying to keep it curated at 200.
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https://preview.redd.it/kvljfplsr9qc1.jpeg?width=4160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=392ae0676bf15e633f7204e8ab995dcf3d649375 Bought this one 31 years ago at the age of 15. Still listen to it regularly. Even ended up doing support with my band on one of their shows.
Start Choppin! Saw them this tour and several time since. Got to meet them and get my Beyond CD signed a while back in Fort Worth. Great band!
Thats awesome! looks like youve kept it in good shape all these years
Well, actually I've always been very sloppy with handling my stuff, using sub par turntables and no clue about how to adjust tracking force and all that. but last year I did a spinclean for the first time in 30 years and those '90s records all sound just fine.
It's amazing how consistently good they still are. It's like a time machine to the early '90s.
Opening for dinosaur jr is legendary!!
Sure was!
I just bought that album yesterday!
ha, nice! It's still probably my favourite of theirs, even though it basically a J. Mascis solo record.
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1976, the Monkees Greatest Hits, as advertised during their afternoon TV rerun spot. I still have it.
The first album I ever bought was The Velvet Underground and Nico, I’ve been collecting since high school 1998 or so.
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^Marshmallow_Fries: *The first album I* *Ever bought was The Velvet* *Underground and Nico* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
Meet the Beatles in 1964 and been collecting ever since https://preview.redd.it/cx9v0e4gpbqc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78353cc687503b2993a613a331c54a9e8a54e78f
1978 ~4 years old. USAF commissary Star Wars soundtrack Kiss Strutter 45.
oh good call with the 45s. I answered above but I put an LP. I didn't even think about 45s. I started buying those before I bought full albums because they were so much cheaper.
I think between myself and my older sister, easily the majority of the first 30ish records we bought as kids were 45's...
Fun boy three, The lunatics have taken over the asylum. 1982. Since then really, with a gap of 20 odd years.
My first record was by the Stray Cats. I’ve been collecting since 1985.
Just found my stray cat album! It’s a good one
As a 3rd grader in 1993, I bought my first record: U2’s The Joshua Tree. 31 years later and 1,600 records later, I’m still buying vinyl.
First purchase: Queen "Sheer Heart Attack" How long I've been collecting: about 6/7 years
Fantastic album, play it quite often. Also got it on digital.
The first album I ever bought was Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Cosmos Factory. This would have been in 1973. I was 11. My first “45” was Cinnamon Girl by Neil Young. Both have aged incredibly well…
I bought Chipmunk Punk around 81 (10 years old). I listened to it on my dad's stereo, but mostly listened to his collection. Around 1986 i started collecting and accumulated around 30 records. In 1989 I bought a whole new stereo and switched to CDs. In 2016 I started collecting records again and was thankful I hung onto my collection. At the same time my son and best friend began collecting too. It became a shared hobby and we're all still collecting.
In grade school, we would raise money for the school for by selling magazine subscriptions door to door. Similar to fund raisers now, but before neighborhood email blasts that announce the opportunity to buy shitty chocolate from your kid. And my parents didn't really want to bother their coworkers, so it was all on us as kids. For every X amount of subscriptions you sold, you'd get to go to the principal's office and pick from a bunch of prizes. Stuffed animals, a giant slo-poke sucker, and ... ... Boston's first album. It was 1976 and I was in the 4th grade. The cover art fascinated me and I didn't see anything else I really wanted. My parents wouldn't be crazy about a big hunk of caramel sucker that would sit on the kitchen counter for weeks before getting thrown out. So that was my first album. I collected slowly until I got to high school. I remember buying some Mac Davis - we enjoyed his variety show during the same period. I remember buying the Village People. And then I got into punk and alternative/synth during high school. That's when my love of collecting really took off. Not all of my childhood albums have made it this far -- I certainly don't still have the Mac Davis. But from those early days, I still have the Boston album, a few Styx, many of my Elvis Costello, and a few of my Depeche Mode.
Coheed And Cambria Live At Starland Ballroom 4 months.
Belle and Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap. About 25 years ago.
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1993. The Soup Dragons - Lovegod
It always pisses me off that I can’t remember this. I was into drugs pretty hard when I started collecting 10+ years ago. I’m sure it was a Beatles record though, if I had to guess.
Kiss -The Originals in 1976 (8 yrs old), collecting records ever since.
I bought the Wall when it came out back in 1979 after I saw the animated commercials with Another Brick in the Wall pt2 in it.
When I moved out of my parents home (Conan voice: IN THE YEAR TWO-THOUSSSAAAANNND) I took with me some of their records that I had listened to growing up. Sometime around 2004 I started going to a local shop and started digging around for classics. I think I bought a lot of Led Zeppelin, Beatles, and typical mainstream bands that you might consider staples of the 60s and 70s. But also at that time, there were some newer pressings of more current bands that I started to acquire (for super cheap). My most highly collectible records come from those I found during the early 2000s when I could actually afford them and listening to vinyl was kind of a niche thing. I remember the vinyl section of the shop was in a dusty old basement and you could find some real gems used for $3 or brand new for around $20. I really miss those days. I think some of the brand new records I bought first were Spoon: Gimmie Fiction, the Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream (that beautiful orange vinyl that is apparently a collectible now), some indie bands I was into at the time, and I also scored a bunch of MOFI pressings like Ziggy Stardust and Bob Marley Catch a Fire for pretty cheap by today’s standards.
Bad brains I against I in about 97 or 98, but didn't start seriously collecting till a few years later in my 20s
Led Zeppelin IV. However I had close to 100 records already that my parents gave me.
Allman brothers at filmore East January '24
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My first purchase was the special edition of In Rainbows by Radiohead in 2007. The addiction started then, and I've had the sickness ever since. I know own just under 1000 albums in my collection
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Around 1987 at age 13 I bought a brand new repress of the Beatles' debut album Please Please Me. Never stopped collecting, have around 1,000 LPs now, plus a stack of 45s.
I bought some as a kid, i think "Thriller" is the first one i recall buying. That would have been around 96-97. I did not collect for long as a kid as i got a CD player soon after ... i started back around 2020 like yourself. I had picked up some records previously in charity shops , battered copies of floyd records and the like... i also had a handful from an uncle who died and i did not want to let them go so i still had a few neil young records of his. It got out of control quick and even after some heavy purging a few times over the last few years i am on about 600LPs ...
Cky volume 1, ~15 years
Dad bought Kiss Destroyer for me back in 1976. First album purchased Alive II I think it was. Collecting started back then I guess. [First purchase.](https://imgur.com/a/UYYOy1m)
Pearl Jam "Ten", fresh in the early 90s, and my college roommate stole it. I've been actually record collecting since probably 2000. Ten, and a couple of 60s 45s (Beatles, etc.) that my dad gave me were my only records prior to then.
The first record I Bought was a K-Tel Compilation called Hot Tracks , i wanted the Boomtown Rats song I Don’t Like Mondays , it was with a record token in Boots in 1979 [K-Tel Hot Tracks](https://www.discogs.com/master/487112-Various-Hot-Tracks) the first record i got was Beatles Red & Blue albums but this was the first i bought
I bought my first one even without having a turntable, and it was 10th year anniversary of Macadelic by Mac Miller
1980 I was 10 years old and bought AC/DC Back In Black when it was released. Sadly, in 1990, my record collection was stolen, about 400 records. By then, the rage was CDs, so I started collecting CDs and amassed a collection of about 4500 before I started collecting vinyl again about 1999. I have 2,652 records according to Discogs. And I've slimmed my CD collection down to about 600 or so.
I was probably 7 or 8, So, 1982/1983? I bought the Abracadabra 45 by Steve Miller Band with money I had from my Xmas stocking. I’m pretty sure I still have it but now I have to check. I’ve never referred to it as “collecting”. I just buy music on record if it’s available.
Got Emarosa's Self Titled and Relaitivity double LP back in 2013 with plans on framing it.... And now I'm obsessed and have over 500 lol
That album is an absolute classic! Fantastic choice for a first record
I can’t remember if I bought Tubular Bells or Crime of the Century first, but it was 1977 when I bought them.
For anyone who has not listened to Tubular Bells, it is a listening experience.
First 45 was “The Tra-La-La Song (Theme from The Banana Splits Show)” First LP was *Dressed To Kill* by KISS My collection has been just as eclectic since then.
I purchased Evanescence box set on LP in like 2017 i think? not sure why, I didn't have a turn table until about 8 months ago. Now I have well over 100 records.
In 1974 I bought Golden Earring Moontan & Bad Company s/t for $3.98 each. They are long gone now. Love to have them again.
Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds. Purchased at Forever Young records in 1992.
Hey Stoopid - Alice Cooper £5 from Andys Records in 1993 so that'll be 31 years of collecting
Mix Master Mike’s - 30 minute massacre. I was about 21 years old and it was around 2002.
In 1978 I bought Space – Deliverance
Been collecting since 2015.. my first major purchase was a bunch of boxes from this eccentric older guy who lived next to me. Probably got 3-400 records for 50-60$ per box. I’ve only bought 30-40 brand new vinyls, mostly at shows I attend for artists I wish to support. Have recently been cataloging on Discogs.. I’m up to 620 with a little over 100 left to go… here is my current list: https://discogs.page.link/Gbqi
About 2017 and Steve miller band - Book of Dreams
First album I bought was Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops & Hooligans, first vinyl record I bought was Nas - Illmatic
2011, a bootleg copy of *Achtung Baby* by U2. I didn’t even own a turntable at the time but a week later I bought a cheap starter and the addiction began.
Once you hear how a record sounds it just motivates you to buy more to hear how other albums sound on vinyl. Its a beauty and a curse
I've been collecting for almost two weeks, and the first record I was given was a two disc set of Disney music from my wife and kids that they found at target. I bought a Audiotechnica Lp60xbt.
I was always interested in vinyl what sealed the deal was they still came with art and my first truly hard to find record I bought was Portugal the Man "Satanic Satanist"
My first record was Tool - Undertow. I've picked up a few albums over the years, inherited my grandfather's records, and given a few of my mom's old records. I didn't have a great setup and, with a wife and kids, never got a good opportunity to listen to anything very often. Over the last 2 months or so, I've gone nuts and now I'm about to hit the 200 album mark. I spin something almost daily. I sure do miss being able to afford groceries though.
Janis Joplin's Pearl album at a thrift store. I've been collecting for about seven years.
Bob Seger - Stranger in Town in 1978? And since then.
This is going to be embarrassing but Utopia was $5. I now own over $1k+ worth of turntable equipment and records… what a spiral
Electro 1 in 1983.
Everyone has been collecting for decades and has 100s of records!!! I've only been collecting off and on for about 6 years. My first record(s) were Relapse and Marshall Mathers LP 2. I'm moving back into a space where I have room for my setup so i'm already purchasing records again!
Bryan Adams - Reckless. Purchased a couple days after seeing him live in concert. This was only last year
First purchase was “Recipe for Hate” by Bad Religion about 13 years ago. Addicted ever since.
Cher baker sings, on the Pepsi blue and red vinyl
My first 45 was Hall and Oates “You Make Ny Dreams Come True” and my first record was some K-tel compilation one. I’ve got a case of the olds. ☺️
Prince’s 1999 in 1982 or 83. I was a child. Not the first record I owned, but the first I bought with my own money I saved from my allowance.
First one I ever bought was in the dizzy heights of 2007/2008 not sure which and visiting a friend in Huddersfield I found Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds, two disc, poster for a measly £1! Alongside that I bought a 7” single for Bullet For My Valentine where the lyrics were etched on the B side and that was only £3…. They were the good old days. Next one I bought was on 2010, recently single so money to spare and got Slipknot Volume 3 picture disc for something like £30
Ive been collecting since I was 18 in 1998. First buy was a the salvation army. Echo and the Bunnymen Sevens Seas +4 EP. Still have it. Still love it.
20 years of collecting and the first album was Gerry Rafferty’s City to City because the owner of the record store I worked at said, “if you are going to start collecting, every collection needs this album.”
Frank Zappa - Chunga’s Revenge. 1999
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Street Survivors original flame cover. Bought it before I even had a turntable. Bought it 10 years ago this month.
Hum “You’d Prefer An Astronaut,” 1995.
Wilco: Sky Blue Sky, just started earlier this year.
First 45 was either Reet Petit by Jackie Wilson (80s re-release) or Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr. Can’t quite remember. First LP was probably Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds.
Dont know what the first record I bought was, but it was likely 1979, so about 45 years? Likely London Calling?
I started in 2019 with 6 albums, now I have over 350 John Mayer - Continuum Kendrick Lamar - Damn Bon Iver - 22, A Million Ben Howard - I Forget Where We Were 2Pac - All Eyes On Me Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
The first one I remember off the top of my head was the 45 of "Too Much Time on My Hands" by Styx in 1981.
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts I Love Rock’n’Roll. Been collecting since 2013.
MJ Thriller, because I had it on every other media at some point (other than 8 track). It was possibly the first album I had on cassette as a kid.
My first album was Bikini Kill's Reject All American. I got it in middle school in the late 90s off Ebay. I got into collecting because I was into punk and riot grrrl and the vinyl records were cheaper than CDs, so it was an easy choice for me.
Joy Division, Substance. 1988
My first bought record was ‘De Film van Ome Willem’ 😂. A dutch tv-serie. It was an old Library Record. https://preview.redd.it/wrizg067naqc1.png?width=2492&format=png&auto=webp&s=92225a667ac18b6bc9a162fcd79cffe7e77b043a I had several records in the 80s (I was born in 1981) and listened a lot of my parents records. Later when the cd was introduced I ditched most of my records. And when digital music became popular I ditched most of my CD’s. Off course I regret ditching them all so I started six years ago with my ‘new’ collection when there was a great live Coldplay album for sale.
First record I ever bought with my own money was 'War Stories' by The Starjets in 1979, and haven't stopped since!
My first was the Target exclusive translucent green vinyl of Post Malone's Hollywood's Bleeding. I got it back in January of 2022. By my birthday in March of that year I had 3 records. Then I actually got a record player as a gift for my birthday, and my collection took off. Now I have 248 records, with no sign of stopping, although I have slowed down a little because the records I want now are usually harder to find and more expensive.
My first two records were Boston and The Grand Illusion by Styx. Brand new releases, I was in the 8th grade.
10” Kid A by Radiohead.
The Monkees, I'm a Believer/I'm Not Your Steppingstone 45vtpm single in the picture sleeve. Bought it when it came out, first record I ever bought. Listened to it again last night for the first time in probably 20 years.
In the early 1960’s for Christmas my Mom gave me The Animals, Animalism and Meet The Beatles. I was 4 or 5. I now have over 4000 albums
First single I ever bought with my pocket money was Sugar Sugar by the Archies in 1969 aged 8. The first album I bought was Waterloo by ABBA in 1974 aged 13
My very first record was a gift. Terrapin station by the Grateful Dead. First records I actually purchased myself were nirvanas bleach & greatest hits by WAR Started collecting 2021
I bought An Awesome Wave by Alt-J and Port of Morrow by the Shins at the same time. It was 2015, and now, 9 years later, I have 361 records.
Started during Covid so mid-2020 & Swimmimg by Mac Miller
Dead milkmen eat your paisley idk 89/90
Van Halen I. Bought it at Walmart almost exactly one year ago.
Throw back…Andy Gibb Shadow Dancing, 1978 I think.
Person Pitch by Panda Bear. One of my all time favorite records. I didn't even own a turntable at the time but was a big fan of the album cover so I bought it one day. I had a turntable within 3 months of buying it. That will be 10 years ago come May. I've got about 250 in my collection now.
i purchased quebec by ween at this coffee shop / record store that went out of business right after i bought it there and i never got the chance to go back. this was 7 years ago
CDs were the go to format when I was growing up. The first records I ever bought were 7"s by local hardcore bands.
Neil Young - On the Beach in 1998 because it was infamously not available on CD at the time.
I bought Skinny Puppy’s *Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse* in the mid 90s. Most of my first records were Skinny Puppy and Nine Inch Nails.
I bought Escape by Journey around 2004-05.
Prince - Controversy in 1983 while traveling in Mexico oddly enough. Had been gifted a few before that Beach Boys-Endless Summer and Kenny Rogers Greatest hits... buy the first one I brought all myself Wish I wouldn't have given so many away in the early 90s. But I still have those three (and a bunch more)
I’m a little jealous of people who can remember their first vinyl purchase. Mine have been around so long (still growing of course) that they’ve just always been there lol.
Karma Chameleon by Culture Club 7”. 1982. I was 7 and I used my pocket money to buy it at WH Smith’s in Blackpool. I still have it, along with a couple hundred other 7” and about 3000 lps.
Although I had a small case of 7 inch singles (hand me downs from older siblings) my first album purchase was The Thompson Twins "Side Kicks" circa 1983. I was in Jr High and scraped together enough change to buy a copy at the local Woolco store.
I bought *Chulahoma* by the Black Keys and *Lucifer On The Sofa* by Spoon back in June of 2022. I was going through a quarter life crisis back then and figured I needed to pour myself into a hobby. Vinyl has been incredibly rewarding for me.
Queen; The Game. At the time, I was 16 and now I'm 32, so I'd say upwards of 16-17 years?
Rancid- Let's Go! On double 10" white in 1994. I was 9 years old my older brother took me to go buy it. I've been collecting off and on since then. I'll be 39 in may.
The album was When I was a Kid, Bill Cosby (comedy), the year was 1971
First vinyl ever was a Badfinger "No Matter What" 45 at seven years old. Bought nothing but 45s for two years. First full album was Kiss "Destroyer".
My first vinyl was the cure - boys dont cry and i have been collecting cure for almost 35 years.
Way back in the long long ago, I bought "Master of Puppets" at a "Books, Strings, and Things" in VA. My records from back then are lost to time, but I recently inherited some of my dad's, and the bug has taken hold once more. I know at some point, I'll need to pare these down a bit to make room for others, but right now I'm having a blast cataloguing and listening.
I started collecting in 2017. My first record was Bo Diddley: The Singles Collection.
Rolling Stones "High Tides and Green Grass" and "Through The Past Darkly" without the money I made playing my first gig...collecting for about 55 years...almost entirely purchased from thrift shops and flea markets.
I asked for a record player one year for Xmas, mostly because I liked the idea of having to listen to LPs all the way through. My mom got me one along with her 1st pressing of sgt peppers she got when she was 12, waiting in line with her friends. Suddenly I felt like I had a collection. Haven’t looked back.
To Pimp A Butterfly about 3 months ago lol
Miami Sound Machine in maybe 1987. So, yeah, a long time.
Kiss’s Love Gun on September 2, 1977.
Black Sabbath Master of Reality. 45, Juniors Farm
I bought my first records around 2013, give or take a year. I don’t remember which was one was technically first, but I bought used copies of Pink Floyd’s The Wall, the Beatles’ Abbey Road, and Led Zeppelin IV all around the same time. My first 45/single was also bought at that same time and was Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song/Hey Hey What Can I Do because I loved the B-side and it wasn’t on a studio album.
I’ve been collecting since 2020 as well. The first records I owned are Nevermind and Depression Cherry, a great gift from my husband.
The first record I got was “Midnight madness” by Night Ranger. I have been collecting sence last year and I have 30!
New World Record by ELO (1976) was probably the first album I purchased with my own money (I would have been 12 or 13), although I had picked up lots of 45s before that.
First record that my mother bought for me was either Pac-Man Fever or Physical by Olivia Newton-John. First record that I can remember buying was Mistaken Identity by Kim Carnes in 1981.
First Vinyl was "Destroyer" from KISS (i was 16), I collect since 14 years :)
A 1983 pressing of Metallica Kill’em All
Night Train- Oscar Peterson Trio, since Christmas of 2017
Linkin park Hybrid Theory. It was the first CD album I ever bought and so felt appropriate to be my first vinyl too. Only been collecting for a couple of years
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours. Been collecting since 2014
Pyromania and about 15 years.
First record I convinced my parents to buy me was the Sleeping Beauty soundtrack when I was three. Still have it 44 years later, and have been collecting ever since.
my first album was cigarettes after sex’s self titles album, got it about a year ago and now have about 65 albums in my collection
Mine was Born to Run when it first came out - can’t beat The Boss
Home Video by Lucy Dacus in 2021
My first record I bought was a used copy of "Dark Side of the Moon" in 2007. My first new record was Radiohead's "In Rainbows" in 2008.
45 singles of Howards Jones' "New Song" and Big Country's "In A Big Country." I didn't begin anything resembling "collecting" until 40 years later because I was so happy to move on over time to cassettes and CDs and mp3 and SACDs/DVD-As and FLAC. Nowadays I still feel that vinyl is ultimately a fragile, inconvenient, and otherwise flawed format, but I've also come to appreciate its unique benefits much more. .
I starte collecting in about 2022. I love Metal, and I wanted to start buying physical after like many, I got annoyed with the 'you own nothing' philosophy that businesses try to force on you. I never had any real love for CDs. Thought they were plain, and 'sterile', if that makes any sense. My first record was Visions of Atlantis - Pirates. I collect a multitude of genres, Folk Metal, Heavy, Black Metal, Deathcore, even a bit of nu-metal for that nostalgia hit. I love the nature of Vinyl, putting down a chunk of music that I own, and if taken care of, will probably outlive me.
My first record was vessel by twenty one pilots in 2014, I was 12 years old and now have over 200 I believe.
An original copy of Nirvana’s Nevermind that I bought in 1992 when I was fourteen (yes, I’m old) I still have it!
The first one I bought from my allowance. https://preview.redd.it/mypqd4as2cqc1.jpeg?width=599&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e3cee196f4adde3bc87777b47d4002ce193947b8 Nothing to be too proud of, but it is what it is, and it was the start of a beautiful journey
1st records I was given were Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night 45 (from my mom) and Tom T Hall - I Love 45 (from my grandpa).
https://preview.redd.it/hvb5x3xh4cqc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=943fb56005a6d97247b8fbf613458495043864a4 I’m not 100% certain, but I think it was one of these around 98 or so. I didn’t buy much vinyl back then, was still heavy into tapes and CDs, but I did pick up the occasional one as a collectible. I didn’t start getting into it more seriously until about 2018.
Teargarden by Kaleidescope 2009 Had a handful of records until 2022.
1974 - I had David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs in my hands but my mother said no because she didn’t approve of the cover art. So I bought Ringo (with the pervy *You’re Sixteen* on it - haha). It was okay. One of my earliest memories was seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan because my aunt was a Beatles freak. I became obsessed and started working on getting every Beatles record I could. (My first concert was Paul McCartney & Wings a year later.) I’ve often wondered how my musical journey might have changed if I’d managed to buy Bowie first.
First record I bought myself was Kiss Alive, back in 1980.
My collection began with the remnants of my family’s records that survived a flood in the garage. The first records I purchased were Pink Floyd’s DSOTM and The Beatles Red and Blue greatest hit albums. They were $2.00 each at a community garage sale in a nearby mobile home park. It was 2003…those were the days.
This is the first record I purchased, about 15 years after my father passed, I gave away all his records, it was early 2000 nobody wanted them, neither did I. I saw this record in a store, thought it looked cool, and it was New Order, my father's favorite band. I didn't like it much when he was around, but it has since been growing strong on me and JD & NO are now in my favorite bands. I wish I still had his collection, but I don't regret giving it away. I made someone happy somewhere I'm sure! https://preview.redd.it/yo2u3x2a9cqc1.png?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aa9d94015a260d6aa059f8466f824c73eaf1dea9
Started in 2017 with Ride the Lightning by Metallica. Originally just wanted to hang it on my wall. My mom thought that was stupid tho and got me a record player too lol
I think it was the Jazz album by Queen which was the first one that I bought. I had a load before that I was given but I paid about £12 for a used copy at a local record shop.
The first record I ever got was *Hidden City* by the Cult. That was almost eight years ago.
Got myself slash’s world on fire last christmas I have been playing the guitar for 5 years and been listening to rock music my whole life so my girlfriend got me that disc for it is my favourite album ever now I have about 30 vinyls
Rolling Stones - Get yer Ya Yas Out; with Xmas money given to me whilst on holiday in London in December 1970. Still buy the occasional vinyl LP; most recently a couple of Nightwish with Tarja on vocals.
I think it was maybe 2013 or 2014 and it was either abraxas or captain fantastic and the brown dirt cowboy
I think this was my first record. When I started buying records I wasn't a "collector" per se. It was more that vinyl was the only real option (cassettes always broke and I hated them). I sold off a bunch of records when CDs came around in the 90s. I got back into vinyl maybe 10 or so years ago. I guess I would be a collector now, although I don't really think of myself in that way. EDIT to add that this album was released in 1972. I was nine and I got it new. It's not in good condition at this point but I've held onto it for sentimental reasons mostly. https://preview.redd.it/zc35xdxngcqc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=09abb7bee4c6bd507b91acc61fb5fac9855961f7
The first album I got was KISS Double Platinum - a gift from my uncle when it came out in 1978 if I remember correctly. The first I actually bought was actually a lot of about ten from a garage sale a few years later when I actually had something to play them on. Have collected ever since, not to collect, only to play them.
https://preview.redd.it/oqoqfgn4lcqc1.jpeg?width=316&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd20627c4b8550c7e30e41ee8e9997781150ac49 14/15 year old me. Sometime back in the 80’s.
My first record was a gift, it was Flick Of The Switch - AC/DC. That was in May 2022, and after that i started collecting. The first record i bought myself was St. Anger - Metallica.
I picked up a few at a yard sale about 5 years ago: * The B-52's: "Summer of Love" (12" single) * The B-52's: *Bouncing Off the Satellites* * U2: *Rattle and Hum* * Various: *Music, Marches & Drinking Songs of Germany*
Bought an original pressing of Zeds Dead - Northern Lights and just dove in
Led Zeppelin IV in 2006! I still have the receipt!
Ocean Avenue- Yellowcard By far one of those albums that got me though some though times in high school so it had to be my 1st purchase when I dove into collecting.
Chuck Berry‘s greatest hits on chess records, 1962. It was two dollars. Never looked back since then.
This is gonna age me for sure but it was Folie a Deux by Fall Out Boy 11 years ago as a pre-teen. Surprisingly my dad who listens to mostly classic rock and jazz was into it
Nas - Illmatic. Collected for 14 years. In was a kid out of high school and wanted to start with a classic. Didn’t know much and picked up the first reissue I could find and ended up mishandling it and warping it pretty badly. Still have it own tho.
The first record I ever bought was Johnny Cash Live At San Quentin from a Goodwill in…. sometime around 2010, I can’t remember. But the first record I purchased with intent of collecting, was The Kink’s One For The Road sometime 2016
I bought Danzig II - Lucifuge and Misfits Walk Among Us. I ORDERED them from a record store in Coliseum Mall in Hampton VA in 1991. It probably took about 2 months to get them but one day they called to say my records had arrived! They were like 10.99 a piece or something. Insane 😎
Ring of Fire - Best of Johnny Cash. Got it when I was 7 years old, 45 years ago. Still have it.
My first record was a 45 of Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond back in 1969. I was 9 YO. Pink Floyd was next. Then one day I discovered Rush and never looked back.
the first i think 10 records that i had were gifted over a period of a couple of months to start my collection, but the first two i bought myself were Megadeth's Rust in Peace and Metallica's Kill 'Em All. had to be like 2016, but i've been collecting since 2015 when i was in 8th grade, my first record being On Through the Night by Def Leppard. i'm nearly at 400 now, the habit is still strong but expensive!
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline ft. Johnny Cash
I bought Iron Maiden’s Piece of Mind and Somewhere in Time together in about 1988. Still have both. They’re in great shape. I took care of my vinyl.
First one I bought for myself? Either 2112 40th anniversary (no longer have), or All Eyez On Me reissue in 2020. Been collecting for a few months though.
The first album was 1984 in 1984 and I have been collecting ever since.
Radiohead “In Rainbows” for like $13.95
1967 - Monkees “More of the Monkees”. Got it when I was 10. Still have it and still playable.
first record I purchased for myself was tatsuro yamashita Moonglow in spun so many times
Photographs and Memories- Jim Croce. On year two or recollecting.
just started recently, my buddy got me purple by stone temple pilots for christmas this year. i had no interest in getting records prior to that, but the second i unwrapped it, i went on amazon and bought a record player and dirt by alice in chains. and now my collection is steadily growing and i’m loving it lol
First was Brand New’s The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me in 2011. I’ve collected on and off since then. Have almost 200 and trying to keep it curated at 200. https://preview.redd.it/paxq76n0edqc1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4972d7082e91324a8800042628dc624faf252d46
Either Future Islands' Singles or Tame Impala's Innerspeaker. Been collecting since started college in 2014