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

[Iroscato]

First CD I actually bought with my own (pocket) money was Busted: A Present For Everyone in 2003 - so I was 9 or so. At that time I was obsessed with Spiderman, Thunderbirds (and yes I loved the movie at the time, particularly the Busted song they did for it) and Harry Potter.

[Iroscato]

Now I think on it, I never bought a CD for myself with money I actually earned through a job. I got my first job at 17, and by that point CD's were already coughing up blood as a format. I pirated most of my music, but I think I bought a few MP3 albums here and there...

[Whateverist]

1976, ELO, A New World Record. I was eleven, and skateboarding in a park in Teheran when the single from that album came through the speakers. I damned-near wrecked -- the guitar just sounded amazing. As I wrote another time:

It wasn’t long after that that the same DJ, Ted Hawkins, played the song that was to change my life forever: “Do Ya” by the Electric Light Orchestra.  In those days before Walkmans®, we carried our music around on what came to be called “ghetto blasters” or just “blasters”; and I was doing so one day in the park with our huge Sony, grinding my skateboard on the stair-rails when I heard this incredible sound pouring out of my speakers.  I immediately stopped my riding, in fact, I almost fell, and I gave the radio the attention it commanded.  The sound was unaccompanied electric guitar, three simple chords, and to this day it sends chills down my spine.  It sounded like a thousand sheets of paper being ripped, in tune, like the fabric of the world itself being torn apart, this guitar did, punctuated by dead silence.  It was the sound of my ears being yanked open.  

That afternoon I made up my mind that I was going to take up guitar.  I had to make that sound.

Loved ELO which came out when I was skateboarding around San Francisco, driving around in an old bread delivery truck and smoking out of a PVC bong I made myself.  I wore hokey elbow pads, knee pads, leather gloves, football helmet and -weather permitting- a denim jacket.  Bought the first album of course.

[c172]

I was big into tapes back then, and I think the first was David Lanz and Paul Speer. Natural States, maybe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rrSvQY1xKw

[Thumpalumpacus]

Loved ELO which came out when I was skateboarding around San Francisco, driving around in an old bread delivery truck and smoking out of a PVC bong I made myself.  I wore hokey elbow pads, knee pads, leather gloves, football helmet and -weather permitting- a denim jacket.  Bought the first album of course.

Pads and a helmet? Lordy, we were thrilled to get sealed bearings, and took our own chances after that.

We came back to El Paso in 77 for a few months so my dad could attend upgrade school at White Sands. The complex we lived in had a nice swimming pool, about a 30' decline from four to six feet, and then a 10' bowl tucked into one corner. When they drained it at the beginning of December that year, we'd skate that bastard ... no helmets. That's where I learnt handstands and concussions.

Probably explains a little of my shitposting.

[Thumpalumpacus]

My just younger brother had an 8 track player and I remember loving the one he had by the Animals, which included:

https://youtu.be/LUpBSvN1a50

As a teen in CenCal, I remember David Johanssen had a cover of this all over MTV. Great, great song.

[Minimalist]

What's a 45?

[chimp3]

1970. I worked and slaved for $2.50. Bought  "Cosmos Factory". Creedance Clearwater Revival. A couple of months later they played live a couple hundred yards from my house at Brandeis University and the students burned the auditorium down. Cambodia, Kent State, Power to the Peop!e! 11 years old and well on my way!

[BrokenQuill92]

I was 10 and bought N'Sync: Celebrity

[Minimalist]

Probably 1958/59   Charlie Brown by the Coasters!

https://youtu.be/-t7GNMlDb_I