First 45 (or track) and LP (or CD) you bought

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Bonus points if you remember the year, how old you were or other details around that time in your life.

1994 (I was 10 years old), pirated copy of "The best of DJ Bobo" on a cassette. At that time buying originals costed a whole fortune, so the majority of us relied on pirated copies. Later he released "Magic" which I managed to buy from the editor with a huge discount (without my mom knowing that 'cause she used to consider listening to music to be a useless waste of time and bullshit) and as a bonus for me going directly to their office they gave me for free the best Prodigy's album - "The fat of the land", also on a cassette. Ever since that time, I bought all I could on cassettes - all originals. With the computers making their way in my country everyone started buying pirated CDs because cassettes became a lot cheaper than they used to be at first but CDs took their place in the competition of being expensive. Nowadays the most of the music can be purchased and downloaded directly from the publisher, so now nobody uses CDs or DVDs for music - we're all with smartphones, micro SD cards or USB flash drives.