Can you remember the 1st CD you bought ?

OK, here's your correction.

Bop Til You Drop was the first rock/pop digital studio recording, but its consumer release was on vinyl LP (and presumably, cassette tape) in the late 1970s - before CDs were introduced to the market a couple of years later.


My first CD was U2's Achtung Baby.

 

Weezer's Blue Album.

 

Remember the credit cards they used to give you if you could prove you paid your semester's tuition at college? I bought a CD player, these four CD's and Spring Break '88 to Mazatlan with mine.

 

My first was Steely Dan's Aja in an old school "long box" in about '85 or '86.
I was so knocked out by digital sound I listened to it constantly along with a borrowed copy of Billy Joel's "The Stranger".
I couldn't stand Billy Joel, but I was so knocked out by the technology at the time, it just didn't matter....
Now I guess I'm back to being knocked out by the sound of vinyl.
The more things change...

 

Songs For Drella - Lou Reed / John Cale
(Special edition with the fuzzy cd cover)

 

I'm trying to remember, but I can't. I can remember when it happened, though.

I held out for as long as I could with vinyl. In the mid eighties I was really getting into vintage country music, and a lot of the music I bought came from used record stores... but that was also the time when a lot of old country and western swing was being reissued for the first time, so I was buying some new albums.

I can remember being at a band rehearsal around 1987. Our bass player, who's wife worked at Tower Records, told us that Tower was no longer going to stock vinyl. It seemed so weird to me. I probably bought a cd player soon after when there was some new reissue that I couldn't get on vinyl.

 

A guy I knew from college bought me my first CD player (some high end Sony single disc model) in return for guitar lessons. My first CD? Best of Jonathan Richman.

 

Chuck Berry's greatest hits. First album was Surrealistic pillow and James Brown live at the Apollo on the same day in1967. Where was my head at?

 

And the February 1977 cover of OUI

 

A girl I worked with drew my name for a gift at the office party and sent a messenger to find out what I wanted. I did'nt own a cd player yet, but knew I wanted to get one.

I asked for and received The Traveling Wilburys as my very first cd.

 

When my mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday (I think it was my 14th, so 1984) I asked for 'Deja Vu' by CSNY.
When my birthday arrived and I finally got to unwrap the much anticipated package I found 'Deja Vu', an album by....Jack Jones (the famous crooner who sang the Love Boat tune)

Petty I lost it along the way...

 

You guys either started way earlier than me, or just had better taste in music (probably both!).

My first CD was Weird Al Yankovic's "Bad Hair Day"!

 

I bought the disc and player concurrent with Stevie Ray Vaughn's Couldn't Stand The Weather release and I am pretty sure it was in 1984.

My first LP was More Of The Monkees (my sister already had The Monkees).

 

My first CD was Zappa's Peaches En Regalia 3" single -- before I got my Sony CD player.

 

It's funny but I remember plain as day the first record I bought, but have no clue what the first CD was. I think by the time they came along they were so inconsequential to what I was about that I haven't a clue. Records always carried a whole lot more weight to me.

 

I can't remember. I think I had a new stereo (with my wife at the time) and we ordered from one of the record/CD clubs. So the first one might have been 12 first ones.