How "old" are you?

[grateful]

My first CD ever purchased was Sade

Mine was U2 War.  I also think I won Jethro Tull Aqualung from DC§101

[hutch]

mine was YES 90125 ... AMAZING sounding...this would have been the original German made import for the US market..

this CD sold me on CDs but I thought they would all sound like that and boy was I wrong

[chaz]

For my birthday in 5th grade (1982) my dad bought me a boom box.  He took me to the pawn shop (i'm not joking) and let me pick it out.  I got a sony.  for my birthday that year I got the following tapes from friends and older brothers/sisters:

Squeeze - singles 45's and under
Squeeze -  East side story
Eddie Grant - Killer on the Rampage
David Bowie - Changes ONe

there were more that i can't remember.  But that was the year i started really digging music.

[i am gay and i like cats]

my first music purchase . . .  was thriller and quiet riot.  on tape.  i was in the fifth grade. 

[atomicfront]

The first album I ever bought was "Rhinestone Cowboy" by Glen Campbell.  First single I bought was "You sexy thing" by Hot Chocolate.

[vansmack]

I had 45's of Michael Jackson's "The Wiz" and Queen's "Bicycle Race" (though the B-side was "Fat Bottom Girls," which I didn't come to appreciate until much later. Come to think of it, maybe "Bicycle Race" was the B-Side - who knows when you're 6).

My first album was Synchronicity by the Police.

My first tape was a double purchase - Van Halen's 1984 and Huey Lewis and the News' Sports for my 10th birthday.  It was the first time I didn't ask for Star Wars action figures for my birthday.

My first CD was New Order's Substance.

EDIT: Just a little bit of investigation solved the question:

"Bicycle Race" is a single by the English rock band Queen. It was released on their 1978 album Jazz and written by Queen's frontman Freddie Mercury. It was released as a double A-side single together with the song "Fat Bottomed Girls"."

[sweetcell]

first tape: bryan adams, "reckless"

first cd: ozzy, "no more tears"

[grateful]

Mine was U2 War.  I also think I won Jethro Tull Aqualung from DC§101

First LP I ever owned was given to me by a friend - Def Leppard Pyromania.  First LP I ever bought was VH 1984.

[atomicfront]

First show you made out with a random chick or dude?

I would say it was a Romeo Void show in 1984 at Girards in Baltimore.  Some girl asked me to dance and then...

[chaz]

first tapes are above
first lp was Frampton Comes Alive, given to me by my older juvenile delinquent brother
first cd I bought was the first Misfits best of, called Collection I

But the earliest records I remember spinning on my own were from the family collection in the living room:
Rubber Soul and Meet the Beatles
Bookends and Bridge over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkle
Endless Summer by the Beach Boys.

I've loved all 3 acts ever since.

I lost the big V listening to Walk Among Us by the Misfits

My wife walked down the isle to Ladies and Gentleman we are floating in space.

First concert was Prince on the Purple Rain Tour.

[atomicfront]

First concert I went to by choice was Missing Persons.  I tried to get tickets to that Purple Rain tour but they kept selling out. 

[i am gay and i like cats]

how does anybody remember their first cd.  good.  lord.  wait a minute . . . wait a minute . . . mine was, no wait, its gone.

[chaz]

how does anybody remember their first cd.  good.  lord.  wait a minute . . . wait a minute . . . mine was, no wait, its gone.

I remember because cd's were a pretty exotic item at the time...was mostly into punk and hardcore and those bands def were not putting out cd's yet, so when the misfits released one it was kindof a big deal....to me.

[i am gay and i like cats]

i dont remember last year . . . so theres that.

[atomicfront]

I remember because the people made fun of me because I didn't have a CD Player.  I don't have one now either.  Except in my car.