First record purchase?

Jalapeno

First record - Patches by Clarence Carter

First Album - T Rex Electric Warrior

fretmeister

My folks were tape people.

I got a cheap record player in 1986.

I seem to remember buying 5 singles and 1 LP

But of the singles I can only remember

Robert Palmer - Addicted to Love

Sigue Sigue Sputnik - 21st Century boy

The LP was the double album of Iron Maiden Live After Death, with the gatefold sleeve and the massive pic of Eddie

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BloodEagle

Which turned me onto and was followed shortly after by Slayer Reign in Blood when I found out the guy who played guitar on No Sleep til Brooklyn was in another band, and lo the ascent into metal fandom started

lasermonkey

First album: Paranoid by Black Sabbath.

First single: If The Kids Are United by Sham 69.

I would have been twelve at the time!

thumpingrug

Single : Jilted John by Jilted John

Album:  Grease Soundtrack

drwiddly

First single was Albatross by Fleetwood Mac. Not sure on the album, probably Bumpers which was an Island Records sampler with Jethro Tull, Traffic, Nick Drake, etc on it.

scrumhalf

I used to love those samplers, very educational for a young lad: Fill Your Head With Rock, Rock Machine Turns You On, etc.

RocknRollDave

I had various Shakin Stevens/ Shawaddywaddy tapes given to me as a kid, but the first records I bought were:


Singles = XTC - Senses Working Overtime and Kraftwerk - The Model.
(both at same time, so both qualify as "First single I bought")

Nowhere near as naff as some of the shite I was to go on to buy...

Album = Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier.
Again, not a bad start. Was bizarre to hear him play some of these tunes live something like 30 years after I first heard them.

Lev

Album - U2, Under a Blood Red Sky (acceptable)

Single - Tight Fit, The Lion Sleeps Tonight (not so acceptable)

not_the_dj

Shakin' Stevens "Green Door", the 7 inch single.

duotone

A Buddy Holly & the Crickets greatest hits cassette.

bigjon

First vinyl album I bought after I got a record-player - Couldn't Stand The Weather by Stevie Ray Vaughan. Pleased with that one, have owned it in 3 formats so far.

Tone71

7" Single - Joe Jackson Different for Girls bought from Earfriend 1979

Album (on tape)- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars bought with my first tape to tape player 1982 ish

Still like both, listen to the Bowie album reguarly, not so much the single!!

DesVegas

The first record i was given was Return of the Los Palmas Seven by Madness 

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and the first one i bought was We'll Fly to Flag by England World Cup Squad 1982

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Teetonetal

7" version of Don't call me baby, by voice of the beehive. 

I have a horrible feeling my 2nd purchase was John Ketley is a weather man, by the tribe of toffs.

In my defense I was only 8 (although I still secretly like both records)  

thermionic

It was either Paranoid by Black Sabbath or What You're Proposin' by the Quo. Both released in 1980 but my google-fu fails to narrow it down as to which was out first. I'm guessing the Sabbath. I still have both of course!

badlydrawnbanjo

We didn't even have a record player, I used to get my nana to play it down the phone to me :-S

the_jaffa

First record I actually asked for was the Prince Charming LP by Adam and the Ants

First single I bought was either (I can't remember which actually came first) Hole in my Shoe by Neil or Run to the Hills (Live and backed with Phantom of the Opera which was the real reason I bought it) by Iron Maiden.

First record I bought once I actually properly started collecting records was a German EP by the Happy Mondays which consisted of the Hallelujah EP and the Madchester EP back to back.

bingefeller

A-Ha Hunting High and Low was the first cassette. Guns n Roses Use Your Illusion II was the first CD.