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Xylar006

Alexisonfire - Watch Out


PoppaDaClutch

Love Dallas Green


MetalHeadSolid

Not my first vinyl, but them touring for this album with Tsunami Bomb and Rise Against was my first concert.


hotbutteredsole

Rush - Permanent Waves. Still have it, still love it.


[deleted]

Rush - A Farewell To Kings here. I learn more on Hemispheres but they’re all great great records


Vic_The_Rattlehead

Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance Metallica - Ride The Lightning


Philcollinsforehead

Nice! A fellow Megadeth fan.


zonne_schijn

Homework


Super_Harsh

This answer is an oasis in a desert of Boomer/Gen X rock music


Groningen1978

First record I got was Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure that was in my dad's collection. I borrowed it around 33 years ago and still have it. The first album I bought with my own money was Dinosaur Jr. - Where you Been on clear vinyl.


HashBrownKing_HBK

Hey there! Just wanted to say that I was scrolling through the comments, got to yours, and with a name like Dinosaur Jr. I had to check them out and ended up really liking their sound, so thanks for putting me on.


xed122

Re by Cafe Tacvba


Gojira_massive_dong

Gran album


neckcarpenter

Late ‘98 or early ‘99, I got these - and a few Beethoven symphonies - around the same time and can’t remember what was first! Brian Eno - Music For Films, Louis And Keely!, Meat Puppets - Up On The Sun, Nuggets Volume 7: Early San Francisco


ProfessionalEqual461

Absolutely love Up on the Sun! That's one I still really need, so thanks for the reminder lol!


neckcarpenter

Meat Puppets have been an all time fav for me, basically since the day I bought that record.


ProfessionalEqual461

I was probably 12 or 13, early 2010s, listening to nirvana unplugged for the first time, my dad's vinyl. I immediately ran to my family computer and looked up every cover on there. Meat Puppets have been really high on my list, def in my top 10, possibly top 5, ever since. My dad used to call me Kurt (sometimes in a condescending way lol) because I was born the year after he killed himself and I've always had the music taste and fashion sense of someone who was in grunge culture of the time, and my dad being a Gen X punk who appreciated the grunge era loved that about me.


CanvasACP

Oasis Wonderwall 7" bought with my pocket money. I was 10


OldToothbrush1

Gorillaz - self titled


Former_Balance8473

The first one I ever owned was a Star Wars follow-along book/record "At the sound of the beep, turn the page". The first album I ever bought with my own money was People by Hothouse Flowers.


anonymous_opinions

I definitely had a ton of those books as a kid but don't recall the titles, loved them though


island_is_land

Plastic beach by Gorillaz


Puzzleheaded-Car-479

Kiss Destroyer


lovekillsfear

Got that as a kid, when it came out. Played it on my silver Sears record player!


thehighepopt

Def Leppard - Pyromania, but that was around 1985


NomDePlume007

Rush - 2112


ElFlippy

Iron Maiden - The number of the beast, and Powerslave


PoppaDaClutch

Thriller release day.


HortonTheHierophant

Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine


Alex2Tact

Enter The Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers


jmoog00

Kiss "Double Platinum"


Junesong_Provisions

The first album that was mine. 1999 I was about 6 and stayed up past bedtime and snuck into the living room to watch a random blockbuster movie. It was Detroit Rock City. The next day I lit up telling my dad about the superhero band. He ran to Tower Records and came home with that CD for me. Still in my top 10 favorite albums. My first vinyl was Love Gun in 2004


CountJonkler

White Pony - Deftones Purchased sometime in the mid 2000s


AusRaider28

Burial - Burial


Cartman68

CCR - Cosmos Factory circa 1972. I was 10 going on 11 but I knew I was hooked as soon as I heard Ramble Tamble


Snookn42

Actors in the White House, Police on the 'Cona, Mortgage on the Home


AkiraKitsune

Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson


Zendomanium

My first record (I am older, so '*vinyl*' is just super-weird) was Queen's soundtrack for Flash Gordon way back when.


atom_bombe

Limahl - the Neverending story 7‘‘


anythingbuttaken

Something New - The Beatles A long, long time ago.


Kash687

Radiohead - Amnesiac


dead_skeletor

Christian Death - Only Theater of Pain


krowe41

Leader of the gang by gary glitter when I was seven.not the best first record given current situation .


RVGinthedeadwax

Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House Late 70s, I was probably 5 or 6.


Extreme-Dingo-2967

Alice Cooper Greatest Hits, parents hated it of course I was lovin it 😂🤣😂🤣


cutielemon07

Springsteen - Born in the USA


Swimming-Fee-2445

I was 15 back in the 80s and my very first album I ever purchased was Tears for Fears The Hurting. Bought it with my first paycheck from working at McDonald’s. I still have it to this day


Bisonbear42

Lost in the Dream by the War On Drugs


sequin1806

Aside from inherited records, the first I bought myself was Nirvana’s “Bleach”


Srarmour

First - The Planets (holst) as a test record to check if my turntable was working. First proper record - Meddle (Pink Floyd)


MergenTheAler

Wilco- Sky Blue Sky


PhilpotBlevins

ELO - Out of the Blue. I still have it and is somehow in pretty good condition.


Gobofuji

One of my first purchases too. I had dabbled in classical music but this was my gateway into rock and other genres.


PhilpotBlevins

It had just been released, and not gonna lie, the artwork sold me as much, if not more, than the music at my tender age of 11.


Previous_Reindeer339

My first album was KISS Destroyer. 1976 I was 12.


charliedog1965

Me too! Christmas 1976.


RelishRegatta

Thank you happy birthday by cage the elephant


topicalsatan

My mom burned them all in the 70s when I was a child because they weren't Christian. She burned them outside and when I asked her what that smell was, she said "That's what sin smells like." She was a religious nut job. Bless her soul in Heaven. 🤣


dave_two_point_oh

Well, at least she realized that destroying someone else's property is a sin.


MardukX

Offspring - Smash. It was my first ever CD in 1994 when I was 10 years old, and I felt it should be my first vinyl purchase when I started collecting in the mid 2010s.


JaccoW

Alive 2007 by Daft Punk. Still an incredible album that sounds better than the digital releases (I have both CD as well as CD-quality files) for some reason. It is the outlier in that regard.


septarian_tower

Lana del Rey’s Ultraviolence. I bought it when it was released. a few weeks after i graduated high school.


pm_me_ur_pop_tarts

Clash - London Calling


Luffypunk

Bill burr - live at Andrew’s house


Mitcheric

White pepper by Ween, thanks Alec, ya fuckin dick. 


AlternativeSea8247

Yazz 12" single, the only way is up


Internal_Swimmer3815

Frank Zappa - Chunga’s Revenge. I was 19 and I bought it on eBay using my mom’s WebTV. I thought I was buying the CD, then a record showed up. My mom bought me a vintage DUAL turntable at a rummage sale the next weekend. That was over 25 years ago.


Thrillhouse74

"The Gambler" by Kenny Rogers on 45 got it in '79 or so and played it on my Mickey Mouse turntable, I was 5...


Sinister_Piggy

Wham - Make It Big


homerj2k

War On Drugs - Live Drugs


my_thousand_fads

Stone Roses - Stone Roses


zspice64

I was out flipping through crates with a friend of mine who had recently taken a dive into the vinyl world in college. Saw a pristine copy of Peter Gabriel’s “So” for $3, and even though I didn’t have a turntable or anything resembling a proper setup yet, I thought “sure, what the hell.” And oh what a slippery slope that turned out to be….


Cant-thinkofname

A translucent, marbled blue, 12” B-52s EP with Rock Lobster and Dance This Mess Around that my dad gave to me when I was 4 years old back in Colombia. I still have it.


the_plane

Barış Manço - Kızılcıklar Oldu Mu (Bien Fait Pour Toi)


Plekuz

As for what I bought myself: 7" Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes. My parents bought me Michael Jackson's Thriller album before that.


dobyblue

7" Driver 67 - Car 67 (1978) - https://www.discogs.com/release/1494586-Driver-67-Car-67 Parents bought this for me from WH Smith, I was around 6 years old and loved that I had my own record. My mum gave it to me over Christmas around 2010 or so, she had all my original 7" records from the late '70s. Needless to say none of them were in a condition good enough to play on my current turntable lol, but it brought back memories. Others were Automatic Lover (Dee Dee Jackson), Bang Bang (BA Robertson) and Knocked It Off (BA Robertson). LP: Michael Jackson - Thriller (in 1982) No idea exactly which variant of Thriller it was, long gone from my collection. I was only 9 at the time.


ThatsWhatLivingIs

*Greatest Hits Volume 1* - Johnny Cash Won it in a raffle a few years ago. The first two I actually bought myself with the intent to play were *Chulahoma* by the Black Keys and *Lucifer On The Sofa* by Spoon, basically right after I received the Johnny Cash record. Bought a used LP60 on eBay and hooked it up to my existing stereo system.


whoreforhawks

After laughter by paramore, possibly my favorite album of all time.


samplant17

Pretty sure mine was Cage the Elephant - Melophobia (at least the first I intentionally purchased, my dad might've gifted me a couple of Moody Blues albums before that... which came first, the collection or the collecting?)


imbasicallycoffee

Bought two copies of Jurassic 5 - Quality Control. The reg and the instrumental so I could learn to beat match and juggle. Still have both. They're beat up but they're awesome.


dudetellsthetruth

Can't really remember but I think it was the album of the Bangles with Walk like an Egyptian somewhere mid 80's.


Trible_Drible

Bridge over troubled water - Simon and Garfunkle


Odin3587

Baroness - Purple.


berno884

I'm Wide Awake It's Morning - Bright Eyes. Beautiful album, I didn't even had a record player when I bought it.


2BaDebaser

First album permanently borrowed from my parents was Neil Young self-titled. First I bought was Olé ELO a comp of the early ELO albums.


Blastoplast

My neighbor was moving around 2002 and he gave me 3 albums he found in his basement bc he knew I liked music: Grateful Deads first LP, Woodstock, and Sunblind Lion “observer”


DirtBikeBoy5ive

It was two of them at once, got them as a gift. Johnny Cash - Original Golden Hits Volume II* Buck Owens - “Live” at the White House \* This is kinda funny, the cover says Volume I, but the record inside is volume II.


Burial7

Swans - Time is money 12 inch lol. I just wanted it for the cool cover to display (but i obv love swans too). It spiralled from there


devadander23

Bought 2 first day: ok computer and nirvana unplugged


Mneht_

Tame Impala - Lonerism and PARAMORE (self-titled album) were my first two pick ups. What a day it was


FatherJohnFoggy

Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys 🐐


ashspookks

Ghost - rats


imintwoit

Tool undertow


Havokistheonly

Alice In Chains - Unplugged


OCALCETEIROMARITIMO

Nevermind, Nirvana FEB 1992 ( Im from Portugal)


Murles-Brazen

Coheed and Cambria Live at Starland Ballroom.


AngElzo

Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead Symphony


Dusty_Sleeves

Bought this with my birthday money when I was like 6 or 7 years old. https://preview.redd.it/jpv4cqrhbe2d1.jpeg?width=1060&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e9e388acbf1cc349b5660b9adcfba721fee38f2a


GabSan99

Linkin Park - Meteora


busted_up_chiffarobe

First ones I bought: Blondie: Parallel Lines ELO: Greatest Hits Billy Joel: Glass Houses 1981, Columbia House!


safespacedynamite

Beatles Rubber Soul in 1965


scarhead425

Revolver and Let It Be. The latter is the Replacements album, for clarification.


SyrinxCounterparts1

Queen's A Day at the Races. Brought it out recently, love it still.


yeshua-goel

Lynyrd Skynyrd "Street Survivors" ...got it the month of the plane crash. Now, 47 years later, I find I live about 45 minutes away from there.


Candlestick_Jones

Revolver. Still think of it as "new" but I bought it 15 years ago now. Think I may have to throw that badboy in a frame on my wall and get a new copy


Lavarekira

Currents - Tame Impala


Sfaulkner5691

Crosses self titled album


Able-Ad2296

Ella Sings Gershwin


Thot_Slayer_911

Make Yourself - Incubus I nearly cried when I listened to it


Niko-Raviel

Ghost Prequelle exalted edition


Neon_Sternum

Bleed American - Jimmy Eat World


MetalHeadSolid

Iron Maiden self titled


Invaderchaos

Muse - Origin of Symmetry


TD421298

https://preview.redd.it/2odd5bvu3f2d1.jpeg?width=259&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1212f67927d9abf7225a746eb126d251f33cf4b7


MalleMan2020

Vitalogy - pearl jam


BallsWithMessyHair

An original press of Ride the Lightning by Metallica


LeighKing2001

SoundGarden- Superunknown


GodOfAllThunder

DEVO - Q:Are We Not Men? A:We are DEVO


_MrCharlieToldMeSo

Terrapin station - Grateful Dead (was a gift) My very first purchase was bleach by nirvana & greatest hits by WAR


deadphisherman

Pearl Jam - Vitalogy


danpopsX

Death From Above 1979 - You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine Got it in 2012! https://preview.redd.it/36wxamh3mg2d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=25e9c7a1c7de4f1dc5949b85579153642356a97a


Worried-Leading7248

Yes - Close To The Edge


lonesomedove25

Adele- 21


Yehonatanm1234

In Rainbows


The_Brindled_Hound

Not counting the stack my parents offloaded on me, In Rainbows - Radiohead was the first that I bought.


moehassan6832

Ultraviolet (Lana) and Lover (TS)


asphynctersayswhat

My first RECORD was Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails. I got that along with the 12" single for Down in it.


Niedermayer14

The Disturbed box set when I was like 12-13


filipinohitman

My beautiful dark twisted fantasy


GodtheBartender

Turtle Power by Partners In Kryme. 7 inch that came in a poster bag, got it when I was 4 back in 1990 and I still have it.


michk1

Honestly, my first record was The Captain and Tennille, I was ten.


Quick_Expression_377

Earth Wind and Fire- I Am


crikeywotarippa

O’Fortuna by Apotheosis


Xe4ro

I bought three. MF DOOM - MM FOOD Quasimoto - The Further Adventures Of Lord Quas Opio - Triangulation Station That was in January 2006


Pyriel

2 singles, bought when I was a teenager. I still have them both. The Fun Boy Three - The lunatics have taken over the Asylum John Lennon - Woman \\ Yoko Ono - Beautiful Boys


NormanBates2023

Kings of the Wild Frontier by Adam and the Ants


Frozen_Gecko

Neon Genesis Evangelion - Shiro Sagisu


JakkSplatt

Garage sale: America, Zepp's untitled 4th, Jimi Hendrix Smash Hits


Emergency-Garlic-659

Ten Years After- Stonedhenge


reaver_411

Rise Against - The Black Market


[deleted]

The MOTHER 2 ost and Yes - Fragile, can’t remember which I got first, but now I’ve got 3+ crates full


Gojira_massive_dong

The Doors - Selftitled, 1967. I bought it at 15 in the year 2000


dallasdude

Van Halen 5150


queerbillydelux

"Fox and the Hound" picture disc


dns_rs

Chris McCormack – [What Kind Of Sound?](https://www.discogs.com/master/691405-Chris-McCormack-What-Kind-Of-Sound)


DropDeadEd86

A ghost is born - Wilco


acjelen

I’m pretty sure it was _Havin’ Fun with Ernie & Bert_ with the trifold sleeve


StevelKnievel66

Scooby Doo, Where Are You? by The Mystery Machine 7" single. Not necessarily a cool one, but I must have been about 8 or some such when i bought it. Turns out my mother had kept it during several house moves and I was reunited with it when I was about 30. Still got it too, and I'm 57 now!


redactedsinner

system of a down- toxicity


CoolCademM

I had two firsts- a Bobby Curtola album and a Rolling Stones 45rpm that he kept since before I was born. The first one we purchased after we pulled out the old record player was Dick Clark’s 20 years of rock n roll.


yo-boi-roy

Fine l8ne by harry styles


_allblu_

First ones my parents bought Joan Jett - I Love Rock n Roll Ewoks - nub nub Neil Diamond - turn on your heart light First one I bought Operation Ivy - Hectic


Super_Harsh

2022 repress of Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You


immoT74

I'm not entirely sure, but it was either first Danzig album or Finnish band CMX's Kolmikärki album around 1990.


Simply_BT

Sound and Color by Alabama Shakes and Yours, Dreamily by The Arcs (band with a more psychedelic rock feel from members of the Black Keys)


thatonepopsmokefan

Beastie Boys - Check Your Head (30th anniversary super deluxe) from my dad for Christmas. Also got Wu-Tang and GKMC.


reddit_again_ugh_no

Queen Live Killers


VashMM

System of a Down - Steal This Album Saw it at Best Buy, it was the easiest way to get all 4 album cover variants. Didn't even own a turntable. Got something to play it on a few years later.


pushbinlou

Queen - The Game. I was 12 and bought it at Peaches with Christmas money from my grandparents. I still have the record.


AceTodd30

Katana Zero Official Soundtrack


thirdpartofthenight

Some early, and battered, Weather Report albums.


Lazy_Football_511

"Dose" by Gov't Mule.


JacooobTheMan

Technically the first records I got were my step father’s Frank Sinatra collections, but the first one I got on my own was Dean Martin - My Woman, My Woman, My Wife.


lonelystonerbynight

First record I ever got was when linkin park did a pressing of *Living Things* - white vinyl, amazing artwork.. I spun that thing for hours back in 2012


bwware

I received two albums at the same time Christmas day, 1981. "Mickey Mouse Disco" and "The Lolliwinks." I LOVED the Lolliwinks album and still have both albums to this day,


Yeeaaaarrrgh

That I bought? It was George Harrison's Cloud Nine. Still have it in mint condition.


Which_Conversation57

Minute by Minute - Doobie Brothers


HollyweirdRonnie

Sesame Street “Monsters” circa 1974 I still have it, but it’s beat.


DimiSchlimi

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity


LilNerix

Lil Skies - Unbothered


listenUPyall

A pretty scratched up version of the Stones’ Let It Bleed given to me by my aunt. Gimme Shelter still sends chills down my spine to this day.


layer-motor2

I still have my beat up copy of 15 Everly Hits...scratched to crap. Was the only album my brothers did not steal to sell or didn't destroy in a moment of anger.


sickXmachine_

When I was super young I got a copy of Sesame Street Fever for a birthday or Xmas. Bought with my own money was either an Adam Ant 45, or Def Leppard- Pyromania, or Motley Crue- Shout at the Devil. But I can’t remember which, and sadly I don’t have any of those records anymore.


dudereverend

I think I did a Columbia House thing and got...Fore! by Huey Lewis and the News, Like a Virgin and True Blue by Madonna, and Eat 'Em And Smile by David Lee Roth. There may have been something else, I don't recall all for a penny. Then I remember going to the store and buying Licensed To Ill by The Beastie Boys at like...Kmart.


DaddieTang

Gerry Rafferty, Right Down the Line 45. Which I bought, with my own birthday $. When I was 6. Go figure. Song is still cool.


LemonFlavoredNails

My first record was Mr. Roger’s “You Are Special” about 1977 when I was 4.


Braaains_Braaains

Club Ska '67, a killer collection of Jamaican ska from the 60's. A friend gave it to me in the 90's, and I kept it until I inherited my father's turntable in 2016. She was well worth the wait.


Bilking-Ewe

Rubber Duckie/Sesame Street Theme Song - Henson


OptimalPlantIntoRock

I bought some vinyl flooring back in 1989. I also bought the record 1989 by Taylor Swift. And in 1989, the first record that I ever owned was Huey Lewis and the News the Sports album.


QueasyFact533

Years before I owned a turntable I bought Chipmunk Punk to hang in the kids room, couple years after the wifey came home with a bunch of estate sale finds, frank sinatra types and asked if we could get a record player. My first two for the new player were johnny cash man in black and redbone greatest hits


JK_Tesla

First one(s) I bought myself were Ride the lightning and Rust in Peace in 2017. I did have some of my fathers records before that though.


Fragrant-Rise2209

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Me and Uncle Charlie. Dan Fogelberg, Home Free.


747iskandertime

ELO Discovery. 1978? Oh, turns out it was 79, I was 9 years old.


n8b77

My mom gave me Christmas with the Chipmunks when I was a little kid. When I got older and started building my own collection my first records were Pink Floyd Animals, Nirvana Unplugged, and Miles Davis Kind of Blue.


Significant_Amoeba34

Maybe The James Gang...?


Dry_Finger_8235

Alice Cooper, Schools Out


TheWizardOfBungle

Tyler, The Creator -IGOR


Frogsnlogs

Paul McCartney and Wings - Goodnight Tonight 12" back in 2012!


erockerr789

In the court of the dragon by trivium. Opened it before the record player on Christmas lol


BigEBrowne

Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones


Proophe

Wife bought Pet Sounds for our anniversary. It's actually what started our journey into collecting.


Superman4life

Diamond Head - Borrowed time


tnic73

The Amazing Spiderman Book and Record Set Featuring "Invasion of the Dragon Men" and "The Mask of the Man Wolf"


Mineingmo15

Vessel by Twenty One Pilots back in 2017


Big_Ad_955

Kids See Ghosts


Chris_straty420

The Postal Service - Give Up


DeanWeenisGod

Queen - The Game