My First CD

[Ripley]

I miss being able to replay a section of a song instead of replaying the entire song but that's progress I suppose.

I do that all the time with my iPod. There's a song by Loreena McKennit which I don't like the beginning of but love the ending, so I just skip the beginning. The best part of using the iPod this way is that you can memorize the time in the song where the good part starts and go straight to it.

[Maddiemoo]

The first CD I bought for myself was The Rembrandts LP. I was a very lame teenager.

Then I was a very lame child, because that was my first CD, too! Actually, my parents signed up for that Columbia House deal, so I got a whole bunch at once. I think it was the first two TLC albums, The Rembrants, the Friends soundtrack, and a Brandy CD. I was fo shooo a child of the '90s.

[Deleted]

I'm going to guess that my first CD was purchased in 1993. I didn't have my own CD player yet (that wouldn't happen until 1995 at 16) but my mom had one in the new stereo downstairs. So I went out and bought The Grapes of Wrath album "These Days". I bought it used for $12.

[NappingAthena]

My first CD was the Bodyguard soundtrack. I remember how exited I was to get a CD Player.

[Deleted]

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, "Greatest Hits". I remember that the first CD player I bought was when I was sixteen. I first got a new stereo, and when we brought it home, it played fine if you just pressed play, but if you tried to skip ahead, it skipped horribly.

Okay, so we took it back, and the salesman assured us that there weren't any problems with said CD player. So we brought the next one home-first, the papers and the packaging looked like it was out of order. We put the disk in-it wouldn't play at all.

Mom and I took it back-and she read the guy the riot act-it turned out, they were having problems with that particular stereo.

So instead of a new stereo, I just got one that hooked up to my old one. (By a different salesman, IIRC. I only recently got rid of it, since it was old and wouldn't play burned CDs.)


"Oh my my, oh hell yes, honey put on that party dress..."

[biondetta]

I think I bought my first CD in 1989 when I got a CD player for Christmas. My parents got me an Ella Fitzgerald CD to go along with the CD player, but the first CD I bought for myself was by Let's Active. It was the Cypress/Afoot albums combined onto one CD. I still listen to it on occasion. It was good stuff.

I now have close to 400 CDs, although I've been downloading stuff more frequently these days, only buying the actual CD when it's a specific artist that I really really like. I wish they would put album art and liner notes into PDF files or something similar that could be downloaded along with the album. I love album art and liner notes. Vinyl was best for that, since it was larger.

[Aurora B]

My first CD was Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" probably around 1989 or so. I was replacing my vinyl.

Now I'm going through my CDs and ripping them onto the computer so I can put the stacks of CDs away. I can't wait for the day when I can be comfortable with buying digital music online and not feel the need to own a hard disc version. Cause, you know, music from the internet is just air...or something. Lol.

eta: I agree about missing the liner notes from vinyls. I still have a few select ones (Springsteen, natch) and I looked through them a few weeks ago. Good times.

[Lisa Miller]

I was late in the CD buying too. My first CD was Nevermind by Nirvana. Come As You Are and In Bloom...over and over again.

I can also remember my first vinyl record that I bought with my own money: The Grease soundtrack.

First 45: Undercover Angel by Alan O'Day. I still love this song.

First cassette: Purple Rain soundtrack. I remember the cassette was white with black lettering on both sides and I played it so much in my ghetto blaster (LOL!) that I wore the writing completely off. Ahh....memories.

[ijustworkhere]

Alanis Morrissette's Jagged Little Pill, though I had to transfer it to cassette tape and play it on my walkman only, because my parents were pretty sensitive about the F word in "You Oughta Know".

[clementine74]

I'm pretty sure it was something by Soundgarden.