First album or single you bought.

gordiji

70's compilation album bought from the local sweetshop with pocket money. I'd be 9 or 10 and bought it for Radar Love but there's a few bangers on there too like this flight tonight/ nazareth or schools out/ cooper. In fact there's more good songs on it than bad which is perhaps a reflection of the era.

https://www.discogs.com/release/1487099-Various-Dynamite

Offset

TheBigDipper said:

Single: American Pie
Album: Schools Out

Great minds (almost) think alike:

Single - Vincent
Album - Killer

Jalapeno

Single: Patches - Clarence Carter

Album:

Teetonetal

First single, voice of the beehive, don't call me baby
First album, Micheal Jackson, bad.

Jfingers

Single: Promises - Buzzcocks

Album: New Boots And Panties - Ian Dury And The Blockheads

Deadman

Bought for me album: Damned, Damned, Damned. 

I lie. 

It was either the muppet show or (slightly cooler?) Not the 9 o’clock news, Hedgehog sandwich. First I bought with my own money was All mod cons, The Jam.

Single: bought for me was Squeeze, Cool for cats and Michael Jackson, Shake your body down to the ground, same birthday as presents. First I bought for myself was Runaway boys by The stray cats.

viz

Philly_Q

viz said:

You can hear me in the crowd on that.  Theoretically.

Tele-scopic

Oh blimey

"Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" by Middle of the Road
"Tales from Topographic Oceans" by Yes (on the recommendation of the bloke I bought my first amp from)

I'll get me coat...

RobDavies

With my record token or WH Smith voucher grasped in my little hand, I may have been ‘encouraged’ towards these choices by my Dad….

 First single was this:

First album I bought was this:

I never listened to side three though… 

rlw

With the Beatles - a couple of weeks after it was released.

ewal

Jfingers said:

Single: Promises - Buzzcocks

Album: New Boots And Panties - Ian Dury And The Blockheads

Close.

Single: Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
Album: Another Music In A Different Kitchen 

prudd

First album I bought was "Liege and Lief". Fairport Convention, in 1970, still one of my favourite albums.

fretmeister

First one was a present for my mother - Queen's Hot Space. It had just been released.

First single I bought for me was Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love. That might have had something to do with the single cover and the video though!

bertie

oh dear.............................
first album
as a 9yr old in '73  (was actually a xmas present)


first album I bought with my own pennies


first single  - two at the same time

48 Crash          - Suzi Q
I love you love  - Gary Paedo 

NothingOnTheTele

I know this isn't quite what OP was asking, but anyway...

I never bought many records and have always used Spotify. The handful of CDs I'd accumulated were chucked out some time ago. However I've now come around to the benefits of physical media and have bought a hifi system with a CD player.

The first CD I've bought (and the only CD I now own) is All Through The City (With Wilko 1974-1977) by Dr Feelgood. It's a collection of the four albums they made before Wilko Johnson left the band, plus a fair bit of previously unreleased material including 13 studio recordings. What a fantastic start to my collection.

And it comes with a DVD! The Old Grey Whistle test, a couple of other broadcasts, a couple of live gigs, and a band interview. Awesome.

bertie

Teetonetal said:

 voice of the beehive,  

ooh Ive met them 

DannyP

First single - When you're young and in love by the Flying Pickets
First album - Hunting High & Low by A-ha

smigeon

Single: Down The Dustpipe - Status Quo
LP: Fog On The Tyne - Lindisfarne

Springywheel

I bought master of puppets from someone in school who used to rip CDs for a quid. But my first proper purchase was the best of black Sabbath at age 17 in 2003. I listened to nothing else that year.