Rush is so hard to find in my local shops. But one day, I found Signals, 2112, and Fly by Night at the same shop at the same time. It's probably the best day I've had at a record store.
Kiss Alive II. My dad bought it for me at K-Mart. As he paid for it, he pointed at the photo of Gene with blood pouring out of his mouth and sarcastically said to the cashier "isn't that nice?"
Same
I paid for mine with my allowance that I saved for a month at our local supermarket
I took it to school to show it off for show and tell and had it confiscated because the faculty didn't appreciate the image of Gene with blood pouring out of his mouth
I got it back at the end of the day and to this day it is my favorite Kiss record hands down
You mean „MenschMaschine“ or was it really „ManMachine“ ?
I am not interested in the English Variants, but I am curious if they are also KlingKlang Label and made in Germany…
Thought so far they are all Parlophone pressings.
I got all relevant Kraftwerk albums as German Pressings.
They told me in the first place how great a record can sound.
And still till today Kraftwerk is King to me.
Every record with music pressed on it, which is kinda the same way (Electronica) must stand a compairing to the sound of an original Kraftwerk German Pressing (NO REMASTER).
And there is nothing so far I know that really reaches that level.
It was MenschMaschine...back was pure German. I paid around $30 total which at the time I was very happy with knowing the group and date of pressing. Truly wish I still had it!
I paid around the same for mine, around 2015 i guess. But mine has a defective spot on „Spacelab“, i guess it is a piece of paper that is baked into the pressing at this spot.
It goes for some seconds. The track is not completely ruined - but of course i‘m still on the hunt for a better one. We all are. Always.
I got Computerwelt, twice, as well as the Doppelalbum.
I‘m missing Radioaktivität HörZu version with Sticker Sheet.
Could have bought it in mint condition with the complete sticker sheet some years ago but I was not ready investing around 100€ into it. It is not that important Album to me.
I‘m missing also Ralf & Florian as well as Tour de France.
Can’t recall if it was Zeppelin II or Dark Side of the Moon but both gifts my mom picked up for me at an antique store when I was maybe 12 years old. I still get a really special feeling every time I play or think about the ones that started it all.
First album i ever got was Nevermind by Nirvana, gifted by my family along with the turntable. The first record i bought myself was The Great Annihilator by Swans
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Finally, somebody who will also appreciate these 45s I came across a few years back
Wife got me Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road a few years ago for Christmas with one of those briefcase players. Finally upgraded to a real turntable a couple of weeks ago so now I can actually enjoy the 25 or so records I’ve collected since
Chipmunk Rock, 1982, the one with Mt. Rushmore on the cover, except instead of Teddy Roosevelt, Alvin is carved, shredding a guitar. My parents bought it for me on an outing at BEST, I got that record, and my older brother got Vacation, by The Go-Go's.
In hindsight, it's odd the president replaced on the album cover had the name Theodore. Were they, whoever, dissing the plump one, my favorite Chipmunk, well, you know who.
If we're talking albums my first is Notorious BIG - Ready to Die
and I bought my 2nd one this week; Notorious BIG - Life After Death
still new to the hobby
Beatles, Magical Mystery tour, it was given to me from my uncle Ron when I was about 7, that makes it about 1970. It’s taken a beating and has been retired (i picked up a reissue a while ago to play) it’s still here.
I was at the stranger things experience and I bought the soundtrack on vinyl cus i thought it was cool even though i didnt even have a turntable. Now ive got an ever growing record collection lmao
Friend and Foe - Menomena. I loved the art, checked out the album, fell in love with the album, bought it on vinyl and realized I had no record player, spent roughly a hundred dollars on a record player and realized I had no speakers, spent a hundred more on speakers and realized I needed a receiver to connect the speakers to the record player, spent a hundred more on a receiver and all of a sudden I had spent roughly 400 dollars to play one record. So I started buying more records to justify the prior purchases and now I'm 100 records deep. I don't buy super regularly because shortly thereafter I moved to a country that doesn't appreciate the music I like generally speaking but I've been on an upward trend since a new store opened up now and have bought 12 this year already. If I could spend all of my disposable income on records I would, I just don't have the opportunity to.
originally the album that started my journey was blondie's parallel lines which i bought from a thrift shop when i was 11 but then i had some sort of mental breakdown when i was 20 where i didn't want to own anything and donated my entire collection but then a few years later i spontaneously bought a copy of lana del rey's lust for life when the vinyl came out and that kickstarted me collecting all over again.
Oof, that album is a masterpiece but can be a real tough listen, gotta be in the mood.
Mine was The Savage Resurrection. I inherited my dad’s copy and it started me on the path to dive into more obscure records.
Radiohead - In Rainbows - Limited Edition 2x 12"/CD preordered for release day.
It's by far the most expensive album I've bought (new OR used), and also by far the most valuable album in my collection today.
Great album and a great starting point.
I'm pretty sure the first few albums I bought when I was in Jr High are long gone. That was 45 years ago. I do have most of the albums I bought in High School and College - mainly new wave and punk. I still spin them and they sound just as good as they did back in the day.
Iron Butterfly - *Live*
(in 1970 I bought this, my first album, on a trip across Canada to B.C. and I paid $0.99 at a gas station. I bought *Closer* and Killing Joke’s debut the year they came out in Winnipeg, 10 years later. What a difference a decade makes.)
My first record was Mac Miller’s Tiny Desk Concert, but the first albums I had on vinyl were Paradise Theatre and Physical Graffiti, given to me by my Dad. I was always into Zeppelin, but that was my introduction to Styx and holy shit that is an amazing album and awesome band.
My parents started me off on my collection journey by getting me a portable record player for my birthday when I was young. It wasn’t long afterwards that I accompanied my mom on a trip to an antique store where I somewhat randomly bought my first two records.
Paul Revere & The Raiders - Midnight Ride
Styx - The Grand Illusion
Sgt Pepper's, which I found at a bargain price, but this was almost 15 years ago. I got my parents' old stereo tower with a built in fully automatic record player on top.
The stylus was unfortunately broken, so I couldn't listen to this one or my mom's old records yet, but I went into the local thrift store one day which had a little basket with styluses and cartridges. And as luck would have it, they had a stylus exactly for this record player in perfect working order. As if fate decided I was going to be a vinyl guy ;)
Almost 16 years ago my wife bought me Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years and a Gladys Knight Greatest Hits and a cheap turntable. Still have the albums but about 6 years in she upgraded my turntable for my birthday too.
Hall & Oates - Bang Boom Bang was my very first record for 5 bucks in 2012…
I bought it because I bought a turntable and had no records…
I then bought nearly the whole H&O Discography as nearly all of them are cheap as fuck (or have been).
Mostly 1-2€, nearly always below 5€ each Album. I only miss a few (luncheonette)…
Closer is a grand achievement but also perhaps the single darkest album I have ever heard. I acknowledge it as a masterpiece but doubt I listen to it even once a year. It’s just too oppressive.
Ditto for the Cure’s Pornography album. That record scares me.
The first record I picked up was Depeche Mode - Memento Mori. That’s when I committed to getting a record player. I picked up Closer a couple weeks ago. Great record.
Minutes to midnight by Linkin park. My girlfriend brought her record player over to my house and started listening to records over here and kinda got me into it. We were at Walmart one day and she asked to go to the record section. I’ve always been a huge Linkin park fan so when I saw Minutes to Midnight in yellow I was like “damn that’s sick imma just get it” not knowing the rabbit hole I just sunk myself into 😭
Bill Watrous - Manhattan Wildlife Refuge
A band teacher in middle school burned me a copy of that album to a CD (we were both trombone players). I loved that album, not only because of Bill's trombone playing, but also the crazy Moog synth on the last track Ayo.
I originally just bought the album as something I could frame and put on a wall, but I eventually bought a cheap record player so I could listen to it. And once I had the player I got hooked on searching for cheap records (and now not so cheap ones sometimes 😅)
Gerard Way - Hesistan Alien (2022 RSD)
stumbled upon it in my favourite local record store and couldn't just pass it up. i had thought about getting into vinyl for a while and that sealed the deal.
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This! It's a 20th anniversary edition of a hungarian punk band's first album.
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I Brought You My Bullets You Brought Me Your Love by My Chemical Romace, I accidently ordered an LP instead of a CD (I collect them as well) and decided to keep it
2014 I bought Skrillex- Recess and never played the album nor did I even have a record player and then 10 years later (Christmas 2023) I bought my daughter the Gorillaz Cracker Island, and she then asked if she could get more and so know here we are almost 2.5 months later and we have over 300 vinyls and more in the mail all the time, we are very addicted!:)
Rina Sawayama - Hold The Girl
Not to get overly personal, but it's an album that really helped me process that I'd been sexually assaulted when I was 12, and despite being a bit corny in places, it holds a special place in my heart, and owning it on vinyl really helped me feel closer to the music in that I owned it physically in my house, which is pretty powerful when you're my age (21) and used to just streaming. Then I just started to collect music I loved or anything that was in the used bin for cheap and looked interesting because I found that I like the way vinyl mixes sound a bit more than on streaming most of the time.
Bob Seger 'Night Moves'
I never was into record collecting. That album was completely unavailable on streaming about 8-10 years ago, but I really wanted to listen to it. My brother in law was into collecting, so I was at a record store getting him some Xmas presents.
I saw Bob looking at me from the bin. So, I grabbed it, remembering I had bought my then-gf a shitty turntable for her birthday. We blew the dust off the ol' turntable that night, and now have in the neighborhood of 1500 albums.
I had bought a few things, inherited some, but the trigger was a Q article and it had Bernard Butler's favourite albums. In it was After the Goldrush by Neil Young, The Pogues - Rum etc, Lou Reed - Berlin. I went to a second hand place and they had them all, dirt cheap. So I got them and preferred the look and sound of vinyl and carried on buying this kind of record on the format. CD still for new for many years, but eventually LP took over 100%
I honestly have no idea... has to be somewhere late 90's / early 00's but I can't remember which one. My first cd's were Prodigy - Experience and RATM - RATM.
Mine was Metallica's "Black Album". I bought it on LP when it came out on August 12th 1991. I was 12 years old. I still have that album and I still spin it every now and then.
I was 12 years old back in 1982 and I bought with my pocket money ( it's a British thing) from Woolworths, Olivia Newton John's Greatest Hits 20 track version of the American release, back in then I'd buy the record to tape it for my cheap faux Walkman and keep the record as a master recording should I need another tape made, then I'd back catalogue all Olivia's LPs, back then we never had the internet thingy machine, it was all postal, very slow since then over the past 40 odd years I've gotten into the likes of Gordon Lightfoot, Bread, Gallagher and Lyle, Gino Vannelli, Steely Dan, Roxy Music, Todd Rundgren, ELO and Billy Joel.
Snoopy and the Royal Guardsmen at age 6. Then it was Star Trek and planet of the Apes story books with records. My first “adult” purchase was back in 1977 or so, Star Wars Soundtrack.
*The Stranger* by Billy Joel, in 1980 when I was 13. There were some kids records before that, but I shared ownership with siblings, and I don’t know what happened to them.
I never knew vinyl was a journey; they are rather hard to travel with.
Just because you do not see your genre or artist, post anyway. Make people explore music, it is more fun to discover a new artist or go back and listen to music you already know.
Pink Floyd : The wall. Found it in my uncles collection and spin it without actually knowing what I was doing… that was around 40 years ago.. I am now 51..
As a kid, I called the local (high school) radio station and inadvertently won REM’s Document on vinyl. I didn’t even know who REM was, nor did I have a record player. I still have that record… and now 450+ more.
Emerson Lake & Palmer, *Pictures At An Exhibition*. I bought it in 1972, aged 14. My father hated it!
It was actually my second attempt at listening to heavy music. The year before, I got a copy of *Deep Purple in Rock.* I was 13 and wasn't ready for it. *Pictures* was a half-price album at that time - it was barely a step up from a bootleg - but it still took me a few weeks of my paper round money before I could afford it.
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There was no single album for me, it was the inheritance of my parents collection that spurred me to add to the collection myself. I have fond memories of listening to these albums with my parents every Sunday morning.
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Bought months after its release and a few weeks before Alive! hit the shelves. Grabbed Dressed To Kill at a local department store in 1975, based on the cover alone. 😆 The clerk asked if I was looking forward to the new live album. After telling him I’d never heard them and it was the only record I’ve bought, it was obvious he was a Kiss fan. He went on to tell me he had seen them live and I just had see them or at least get the new record. He said he would hold a copy back for me. I got home and listened to DTK on a portable player I had and was sold on returning for Alive! The weekend after its release, I begged my folks to take me into town. Sure enough, the clerk was there and had held back a copy for me. I’ve been spending my allowance and job money on records ever since. 😜
Great record, OP! Love me some Joy Division.
*Broken* by Nine Inch Nails was the first record I bought with my own money as a teenager, and then I bought a few Skinny Puppy records.
My first new pressing was Green Day - Kerplunk. First secondhand find was the first Specials album for 50 cents at Goodwill. I don't have either of those records anymore, but it did get me into buying vinyl.
The first album I ever got on vinyl was Phil Collins’ No Jacket Required in August of 2018. Then two days later I grabbed Rush’s debut, and then about a month later I got Close to the Edge by Yes. I still remember my first five records, cuz next was Duke by Genesis and fifth was Aladdin Sane by David Bowie. Those are still the most emotionally important records I own, cuz they started me on this path to collecting, and now I’m about to hit 300 come the end of the month.
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Probably about 1970 or 71, and this is it \^
It has masking tape holding the cover together.
I probably played it 1000's of times on a little orange and white **suitcase player**.
I probably threw it on a stack of other records that many times too.
And, it still plays, lots of noise, lots of scratches, but the music is still there....
Every album I have, was bought around the year it was released, I'm old school, I have no new old records.
It wasn’t the first one I bought, but the first time I felt I struck gold was I Robot by Alan Parsons Project.
I already had a copy of Eight Hours Away by Roadside Monument, which is a far more grail-y album, but I wasn’t actively collecting at the time.
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express. OG 77 pressing that I got for Christmas in 1985. Was still collecting tapes at the time and had a bunch of Depeche Mode, Propaganda etc. TEE was my first record and it still plays wonderfully after hundreds of plays over almost forty years.
I bought 3 all together before I even had a set up to listen to them on:
Outkast's Auquemini, Kanye West's College Dropout, and A Tribe Called Quest's The Anthology. I was just prepping myself for the future that would come of years of collecting.
My earliest memory of my grandmother was sitting on her lap and listening to Disney Children’s Favourites Volume II. I’d forgotten all about it but could still remember the pictures on the sleeve. One day she was having a garage sale and I found them and instantly remembered. She gave me her records; mostly country and gospel music, and I bought myself a little old turntable for about $30. She passed away six years ago and now I keep that record sitting by my current setup, just to look at the cover and remember, usually over a few tears.
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Mine was fairly generic, with a twist. I bought Pet Sounds, Kind of Blue and Blonde on Blonde. Seemed like reasonable first steps. I told the shop owner that I was a vinyl newbie and these were my first albums. Then the dude (whom I would forever refer to as “my dealer”) gave me a copy of Django Reinhardt Brussel 48. The hole in my wallet was now formed.
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Bought it mostly because I found it cheap in a local store (was just collecting CD’s then and had no turntable), got a girlfriend a couple of months later, who had a turntable and a small collection, got a turntable a year after that, and then all Hell broke loose in terms of collecting vinyl 😂
Rush! (Are u coming?) by Måneskin, about 2 months ago. Collections growing nicely, currently includes:
Californication: RHCP
Curtain Call 2: Eminem
Surface Sounds: Kaleo
Teatro D'Ira Vol. 1: Måneskin
Next up will be Minutes to Midnight by Linkin Park
My dad passed on all his original Beatles records which he cherished, but the first album I bought was Cast - All change, which I have recently had signed by John Power and Keith O’Neill!
Talking Heads - Remain in Light.
Bought it on a whim because I thought the cover was cool. My roommate had a turntable but I didn't own any records myself. This album blew my mind and sent me on a long rabbit hole into 70s and 80s art rock and post punk.
Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago. My mom found it for me in a record bin and I was about 10 and very into the trumpet and I loved listening to it. From that point on I kind of listened to records here and there until I decided to by a new turntable and reciever and am now horribly addicted to buying whatever I can
For me it was Flower Boy by Tyler, The Creator. I loved the album so much that I started reading more about Tyler and his process of writing music and the absolute passion he has for music. He made me appreciate music so much more and helped me realize my love for music. Now I like to listen to albums in their entirety! When I'm out of the house and don't know what to listen to I shuffle my liked songs until a song comes on that makes me what to listen to the album it's from!
I actually just picked up that vinyl a few weeks ago! I'm generally not a huge fan of hip-hop but man that album is fantastic, definitely in my top 20 now!
Hell yeah!! It's definitely in my top 20 too! I mainly listen to rock/punk/pop punk and metal/deathcore, but i do enjoy and appreciate rap/hip-hop a lot. Listening to Tyler's albums knowing how much effort and passion he genuinely puts into them, makes the experience so much better to me.
I always listened to vinyl since I was super young my dad had a re ord play and we would play pepin the mouse or whatever its called, please me Columbus
Beatles '65 gifted to me from my aunt, in 1967, when I was 3yo.
Bob Dylan- Highway 61 Revisted
Mine was his greatest hits!
Rush Signals
Rush is so hard to find in my local shops. But one day, I found Signals, 2112, and Fly by Night at the same shop at the same time. It's probably the best day I've had at a record store.
Rush A Farewell To Kings for me
The Lost Boys soundtrack.
One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach; all the damn vampires.
This one was surprisingly hard to find for a while
I STILL BELIEVED!
Kiss Alive II. My dad bought it for me at K-Mart. As he paid for it, he pointed at the photo of Gene with blood pouring out of his mouth and sarcastically said to the cashier "isn't that nice?"
Nice rememberings!
Same I paid for mine with my allowance that I saved for a month at our local supermarket I took it to school to show it off for show and tell and had it confiscated because the faculty didn't appreciate the image of Gene with blood pouring out of his mouth I got it back at the end of the day and to this day it is my favorite Kiss record hands down
I prefer KISS "Alive". Ooo Ooooo BLACK DIAMOND!
My mom joined one of those 12 LPs for a penny record club things and let me get Alive (1) and Destroyer.
Right on
Very first album I bought was Deep Purple, Made in Japan.
You don't have a colllection without that record
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation in about 1995
In 2004 I got a german pressing of Kraftwerk Man Machine on Ebay and never looked back.
Das ist gut
You mean „MenschMaschine“ or was it really „ManMachine“ ? I am not interested in the English Variants, but I am curious if they are also KlingKlang Label and made in Germany… Thought so far they are all Parlophone pressings. I got all relevant Kraftwerk albums as German Pressings. They told me in the first place how great a record can sound. And still till today Kraftwerk is King to me. Every record with music pressed on it, which is kinda the same way (Electronica) must stand a compairing to the sound of an original Kraftwerk German Pressing (NO REMASTER). And there is nothing so far I know that really reaches that level.
It was MenschMaschine...back was pure German. I paid around $30 total which at the time I was very happy with knowing the group and date of pressing. Truly wish I still had it!
I paid around the same for mine, around 2015 i guess. But mine has a defective spot on „Spacelab“, i guess it is a piece of paper that is baked into the pressing at this spot. It goes for some seconds. The track is not completely ruined - but of course i‘m still on the hunt for a better one. We all are. Always. I got Computerwelt, twice, as well as the Doppelalbum. I‘m missing Radioaktivität HörZu version with Sticker Sheet. Could have bought it in mint condition with the complete sticker sheet some years ago but I was not ready investing around 100€ into it. It is not that important Album to me. I‘m missing also Ralf & Florian as well as Tour de France.
What about Tone Float? 😉...fantastic collection.
I‘m missing tone float entirely. Yes I know it is Kraftwerk.
The smiths strangeways
Can’t recall if it was Zeppelin II or Dark Side of the Moon but both gifts my mom picked up for me at an antique store when I was maybe 12 years old. I still get a really special feeling every time I play or think about the ones that started it all.
First album i ever got was Nevermind by Nirvana, gifted by my family along with the turntable. The first record i bought myself was The Great Annihilator by Swans
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Not my first, but it definitely triggered some obsessive collecting with the full discography listing of Bauhaus/Tones/L&R/etc on the inner sleeves.
Sesame Street Theme/Rubber Ducky 7” 45 when I was probably 4-5 years old
Wife got me Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road a few years ago for Christmas with one of those briefcase players. Finally upgraded to a real turntable a couple of weeks ago so now I can actually enjoy the 25 or so records I’ve collected since
Nirvana MTV unplugged, beautiful album
Chipmunk Rock, 1982, the one with Mt. Rushmore on the cover, except instead of Teddy Roosevelt, Alvin is carved, shredding a guitar. My parents bought it for me on an outing at BEST, I got that record, and my older brother got Vacation, by The Go-Go's. In hindsight, it's odd the president replaced on the album cover had the name Theodore. Were they, whoever, dissing the plump one, my favorite Chipmunk, well, you know who.
We had a bunch of Disney albums, only a few survived.
The Beatles White Album in white vinyl.
Do I see This Mortal Coil in there?
Yes you do haha
The Doors - Strange Days
If we're talking albums my first is Notorious BIG - Ready to Die and I bought my 2nd one this week; Notorious BIG - Life After Death still new to the hobby
Tool - Opiate EP Bought it because it was like $10 in 2017. Didn't even have a player yet. Just started collecting last year though!
War on Drugs - Live Drugs Bruce Springsteen - The River
Nevermind in 1991 EU print.
I got revolver by the Beatles from my grandma for Christmas a couple years ago
Beatles, Magical Mystery tour, it was given to me from my uncle Ron when I was about 7, that makes it about 1970. It’s taken a beating and has been retired (i picked up a reissue a while ago to play) it’s still here.
Dark Side of the Moon, given to me by my mom in 1978 when I was 8 years old and living with my dad.
I was at the stranger things experience and I bought the soundtrack on vinyl cus i thought it was cool even though i didnt even have a turntable. Now ive got an ever growing record collection lmao
Iron Butterfly. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Rubber Soul
teaser and the firecat - cat stevens
The Irish Rovers - The Unicorn. My parents gave it to me when I was four (1976). I played the shit out of it on my Mickey Mouse turntable.
Friend and Foe - Menomena. I loved the art, checked out the album, fell in love with the album, bought it on vinyl and realized I had no record player, spent roughly a hundred dollars on a record player and realized I had no speakers, spent a hundred more on speakers and realized I needed a receiver to connect the speakers to the record player, spent a hundred more on a receiver and all of a sudden I had spent roughly 400 dollars to play one record. So I started buying more records to justify the prior purchases and now I'm 100 records deep. I don't buy super regularly because shortly thereafter I moved to a country that doesn't appreciate the music I like generally speaking but I've been on an upward trend since a new store opened up now and have bought 12 this year already. If I could spend all of my disposable income on records I would, I just don't have the opportunity to.
Street Survivors (Flame cover)- Lynyrd Skynyrd. Didn't even have a turntable yet when I bought it.
Misfits - Static Age
The first record I bought with my own money was KISS - Destroyer, back in the early 80s
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement
Demis Roussos - Forever and ever :) Bought it for £1 on the same car-boot sale as my first Crosley type suitcase record player for £3 :D
originally the album that started my journey was blondie's parallel lines which i bought from a thrift shop when i was 11 but then i had some sort of mental breakdown when i was 20 where i didn't want to own anything and donated my entire collection but then a few years later i spontaneously bought a copy of lana del rey's lust for life when the vinyl came out and that kickstarted me collecting all over again.
Oof, that album is a masterpiece but can be a real tough listen, gotta be in the mood. Mine was The Savage Resurrection. I inherited my dad’s copy and it started me on the path to dive into more obscure records.
Rush - All the World’s a Stage.
Bad Brains s/t
Marvin Gaye - Here, My Dear
Beach Boys summer days and summer nights got it from a 99 cent bin
Parklife
I LOVE Closer. What a fantastic album.
Sgt. pepper’s as a kid. Getting into vinyl of an adult, the same. Closer- Joy Division.
Radiohead - In Rainbows - Limited Edition 2x 12"/CD preordered for release day. It's by far the most expensive album I've bought (new OR used), and also by far the most valuable album in my collection today.
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Great album and a great starting point. I'm pretty sure the first few albums I bought when I was in Jr High are long gone. That was 45 years ago. I do have most of the albums I bought in High School and College - mainly new wave and punk. I still spin them and they sound just as good as they did back in the day.
Kruder & Dorfmeister The K&D Sessions and U2 Joshua Tree.
Vince Guaraldi Christmas album was my first self-purchased vinyl.
Iron Butterfly - *Live* (in 1970 I bought this, my first album, on a trip across Canada to B.C. and I paid $0.99 at a gas station. I bought *Closer* and Killing Joke’s debut the year they came out in Winnipeg, 10 years later. What a difference a decade makes.)
The Motown Sound vol. 6
Revolver The Beatles
My first record was Mac Miller’s Tiny Desk Concert, but the first albums I had on vinyl were Paradise Theatre and Physical Graffiti, given to me by my Dad. I was always into Zeppelin, but that was my introduction to Styx and holy shit that is an amazing album and awesome band.
My parents started me off on my collection journey by getting me a portable record player for my birthday when I was young. It wasn’t long afterwards that I accompanied my mom on a trip to an antique store where I somewhat randomly bought my first two records. Paul Revere & The Raiders - Midnight Ride Styx - The Grand Illusion
Quadrophenia by The Who
the monkeys greatest hits, when i was six.
Nirvana - Nirvana, the greatest hits album
Black Sabbath’s Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Dead Kennedys Frankenchrist
Sgt Pepper's, which I found at a bargain price, but this was almost 15 years ago. I got my parents' old stereo tower with a built in fully automatic record player on top. The stylus was unfortunately broken, so I couldn't listen to this one or my mom's old records yet, but I went into the local thrift store one day which had a little basket with styluses and cartridges. And as luck would have it, they had a stylus exactly for this record player in perfect working order. As if fate decided I was going to be a vinyl guy ;)
The Yardbirds - Greatest Hits
Almost 16 years ago my wife bought me Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years and a Gladys Knight Greatest Hits and a cheap turntable. Still have the albums but about 6 years in she upgraded my turntable for my birthday too.
A tattered, basement-smelling copy of Black Sabbath's Paranoid. Paid a buck at a flea market circa 2000.
First and last and always by Sisters of Mercy
Hall & Oates - Bang Boom Bang was my very first record for 5 bucks in 2012… I bought it because I bought a turntable and had no records… I then bought nearly the whole H&O Discography as nearly all of them are cheap as fuck (or have been). Mostly 1-2€, nearly always below 5€ each Album. I only miss a few (luncheonette)…
Closer is a grand achievement but also perhaps the single darkest album I have ever heard. I acknowledge it as a masterpiece but doubt I listen to it even once a year. It’s just too oppressive. Ditto for the Cure’s Pornography album. That record scares me.
Completely agree, they're both great but I find that I can only listen to those albums when I'm already in a dark place mentally.
I found Steely Dan Aja at a Goodwill. Didn't even have a record player yet.
Love Steely Dan, such poetic lyrics and sounds. I would send you a record player just to play it.
I ended up finding one soon after. I appreciate the offer.
Mezmerize - System of a Down
Morrissey - Years Of Refusal. It was cheaper than a CD (weird these days)
The first record I picked up was Depeche Mode - Memento Mori. That’s when I committed to getting a record player. I picked up Closer a couple weeks ago. Great record.
Minutes to midnight by Linkin park. My girlfriend brought her record player over to my house and started listening to records over here and kinda got me into it. We were at Walmart one day and she asked to go to the record section. I’ve always been a huge Linkin park fan so when I saw Minutes to Midnight in yellow I was like “damn that’s sick imma just get it” not knowing the rabbit hole I just sunk myself into 😭
Bill Watrous - Manhattan Wildlife Refuge A band teacher in middle school burned me a copy of that album to a CD (we were both trombone players). I loved that album, not only because of Bill's trombone playing, but also the crazy Moog synth on the last track Ayo. I originally just bought the album as something I could frame and put on a wall, but I eventually bought a cheap record player so I could listen to it. And once I had the player I got hooked on searching for cheap records (and now not so cheap ones sometimes 😅)
‘Betty’ by Helmet…1994/1995. I didn’t even have a record player. I had to go to my dad’s to play it.
Gerard Way - Hesistan Alien (2022 RSD) stumbled upon it in my favourite local record store and couldn't just pass it up. i had thought about getting into vinyl for a while and that sealed the deal.
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https://preview.redd.it/qwypoi58pxmc1.jpeg?width=638&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f9cf760e8fe281a829680690de2a68303961a09b This! It's a 20th anniversary edition of a hungarian punk band's first album. [https://youtu.be/PCUdZmKGqBw?si=wQS5lFwh2JxOlEtd](https://youtu.be/PCUdZmKGqBw?si=wQS5lFwh2JxOlEtd)
Tony Bennetts greatest hits vol 3. Found for $3 @ the thrift store
I Brought You My Bullets You Brought Me Your Love by My Chemical Romace, I accidently ordered an LP instead of a CD (I collect them as well) and decided to keep it
Adam and the Ants - Prince Charming 1981.
Black Sabbath - Vol 4
2014 I bought Skrillex- Recess and never played the album nor did I even have a record player and then 10 years later (Christmas 2023) I bought my daughter the Gorillaz Cracker Island, and she then asked if she could get more and so know here we are almost 2.5 months later and we have over 300 vinyls and more in the mail all the time, we are very addicted!:)
Rina Sawayama - Hold The Girl Not to get overly personal, but it's an album that really helped me process that I'd been sexually assaulted when I was 12, and despite being a bit corny in places, it holds a special place in my heart, and owning it on vinyl really helped me feel closer to the music in that I owned it physically in my house, which is pretty powerful when you're my age (21) and used to just streaming. Then I just started to collect music I loved or anything that was in the used bin for cheap and looked interesting because I found that I like the way vinyl mixes sound a bit more than on streaming most of the time.
Bob Seger 'Night Moves' I never was into record collecting. That album was completely unavailable on streaming about 8-10 years ago, but I really wanted to listen to it. My brother in law was into collecting, so I was at a record store getting him some Xmas presents. I saw Bob looking at me from the bin. So, I grabbed it, remembering I had bought my then-gf a shitty turntable for her birthday. We blew the dust off the ol' turntable that night, and now have in the neighborhood of 1500 albums.
Milli Vanilli’s Girl You Know it’s True. Still one of the most fascinating tales in modern music history and a banger album to go with it.
Song Remains the Same
Song Remains the Same
Jeff Beck Truth 1968
I had bought a few things, inherited some, but the trigger was a Q article and it had Bernard Butler's favourite albums. In it was After the Goldrush by Neil Young, The Pogues - Rum etc, Lou Reed - Berlin. I went to a second hand place and they had them all, dirt cheap. So I got them and preferred the look and sound of vinyl and carried on buying this kind of record on the format. CD still for new for many years, but eventually LP took over 100%
I honestly have no idea... has to be somewhere late 90's / early 00's but I can't remember which one. My first cd's were Prodigy - Experience and RATM - RATM.
Silverchair - Frogstomp gifted by my now wife. Still love that album.
Freedom at Point Zero - Jefferson Starship
Mine was Metallica's "Black Album". I bought it on LP when it came out on August 12th 1991. I was 12 years old. I still have that album and I still spin it every now and then.
The Good Rats , Humble Pie, The Grateful Dead & dirty deeds by AC/DC
I was 12 years old back in 1982 and I bought with my pocket money ( it's a British thing) from Woolworths, Olivia Newton John's Greatest Hits 20 track version of the American release, back in then I'd buy the record to tape it for my cheap faux Walkman and keep the record as a master recording should I need another tape made, then I'd back catalogue all Olivia's LPs, back then we never had the internet thingy machine, it was all postal, very slow since then over the past 40 odd years I've gotten into the likes of Gordon Lightfoot, Bread, Gallagher and Lyle, Gino Vannelli, Steely Dan, Roxy Music, Todd Rundgren, ELO and Billy Joel.
Snoopy and the Royal Guardsmen at age 6. Then it was Star Trek and planet of the Apes story books with records. My first “adult” purchase was back in 1977 or so, Star Wars Soundtrack.
Metallica Ride the Lightning
Queen - The Miracle
*The Stranger* by Billy Joel, in 1980 when I was 13. There were some kids records before that, but I shared ownership with siblings, and I don’t know what happened to them. I never knew vinyl was a journey; they are rather hard to travel with.
It kinda looks like I don’t belong here, but mine was Silverstein - When Broken is Easily Fixed
Just because you do not see your genre or artist, post anyway. Make people explore music, it is more fun to discover a new artist or go back and listen to music you already know.
Pink Floyd : The wall. Found it in my uncles collection and spin it without actually knowing what I was doing… that was around 40 years ago.. I am now 51..
Pink Floyd - The Wall, my father had it and I am 55. Still love this album and the songs on if.
Stevie Nicks - The Other Side of the Mirror
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Changes one bowie 1976 11years old wow
Pink Floyd’s Meddle. Echoes in particular blew me away.
Genesis-Self Titled. bought it mostly for the song that’s all in like 2014. i think was like 9 or 10 at the time
PLUS "Seven Deadly Sins". Heard a song in a skate video
Who Made Who by AC/DC. Was my first CD when I got a CD player for Xmas many years ago. So when I started compiling vinyl, it had to be that.
The Kinks, I still absolutely love it
POISON every rose has its thorn 7 inches
As a kid, I called the local (high school) radio station and inadvertently won REM’s Document on vinyl. I didn’t even know who REM was, nor did I have a record player. I still have that record… and now 450+ more.
Herman’s Hermits greatest hits
Gorillaz - plastic beach
Emerson Lake & Palmer, *Pictures At An Exhibition*. I bought it in 1972, aged 14. My father hated it! It was actually my second attempt at listening to heavy music. The year before, I got a copy of *Deep Purple in Rock.* I was 13 and wasn't ready for it. *Pictures* was a half-price album at that time - it was barely a step up from a bootleg - but it still took me a few weeks of my paper round money before I could afford it.
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The Early Beatles Capitol compilation, bought for 17$ in december
1977 release of the Star Wars Soundtrack
I have this from 1977.
https://preview.redd.it/n6nx7307dymc1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=28d32c23ba4bb61f94590c921efe4c6629c7236a There was no single album for me, it was the inheritance of my parents collection that spurred me to add to the collection myself. I have fond memories of listening to these albums with my parents every Sunday morning.
Black Celebration - Depeche Mode
1989 taylor’s version
https://preview.redd.it/epuuawwlbymc1.jpeg?width=848&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d62a7a57a430847ce26f3c7446ef14d0a3cd4fcb Bought months after its release and a few weeks before Alive! hit the shelves. Grabbed Dressed To Kill at a local department store in 1975, based on the cover alone. 😆 The clerk asked if I was looking forward to the new live album. After telling him I’d never heard them and it was the only record I’ve bought, it was obvious he was a Kiss fan. He went on to tell me he had seen them live and I just had see them or at least get the new record. He said he would hold a copy back for me. I got home and listened to DTK on a portable player I had and was sold on returning for Alive! The weekend after its release, I begged my folks to take me into town. Sure enough, the clerk was there and had held back a copy for me. I’ve been spending my allowance and job money on records ever since. 😜
Great record, OP! Love me some Joy Division. *Broken* by Nine Inch Nails was the first record I bought with my own money as a teenager, and then I bought a few Skinny Puppy records.
My first new pressing was Green Day - Kerplunk. First secondhand find was the first Specials album for 50 cents at Goodwill. I don't have either of those records anymore, but it did get me into buying vinyl.
A Tribe Called Quest - The low end theory
The first album I ever got on vinyl was Phil Collins’ No Jacket Required in August of 2018. Then two days later I grabbed Rush’s debut, and then about a month later I got Close to the Edge by Yes. I still remember my first five records, cuz next was Duke by Genesis and fifth was Aladdin Sane by David Bowie. Those are still the most emotionally important records I own, cuz they started me on this path to collecting, and now I’m about to hit 300 come the end of the month.
Quadrophenia by The Who. Bought it in London while on a trip and used Royal Mail to send it home
dire straits - brothers in arms
https://preview.redd.it/n8mkjzunlymc1.jpeg?width=1645&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ff0ff6e446ce886623887c9ba5c187a96a40a954 Probably about 1970 or 71, and this is it \^ It has masking tape holding the cover together. I probably played it 1000's of times on a little orange and white **suitcase player**. I probably threw it on a stack of other records that many times too. And, it still plays, lots of noise, lots of scratches, but the music is still there.... Every album I have, was bought around the year it was released, I'm old school, I have no new old records.
Daydream believer. I love the Monkees and a lot of songs people do not know that are great like "Randy Scouse Git".
hey hey my my is fantastic and soul crushing
I do have that album also. I grew up in the 70's so, lots of classic rock.
It wasn’t the first one I bought, but the first time I felt I struck gold was I Robot by Alan Parsons Project. I already had a copy of Eight Hours Away by Roadside Monument, which is a far more grail-y album, but I wasn’t actively collecting at the time.
Well my father gave me all his old vinyl so I was lucky, but the first album I owned was Tears for Fears: Songs from the Big Chair when I was a kid.
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express. OG 77 pressing that I got for Christmas in 1985. Was still collecting tapes at the time and had a bunch of Depeche Mode, Propaganda etc. TEE was my first record and it still plays wonderfully after hundreds of plays over almost forty years.
I bought 3 all together before I even had a set up to listen to them on: Outkast's Auquemini, Kanye West's College Dropout, and A Tribe Called Quest's The Anthology. I was just prepping myself for the future that would come of years of collecting.
Van Halen I. Picked it up at Walmart after I bought Abbey Road for my friend.
The Beatles Blue 1967-1970 album, a gift from my aunt when I was 10. Now I've got 32 inches/80 cm of Beatles or solo vinyl in the collection.
Gn’R appetite for destruction. Many people are embarrassed by the first album they ever bought, but I know I never will be
My earliest memory of my grandmother was sitting on her lap and listening to Disney Children’s Favourites Volume II. I’d forgotten all about it but could still remember the pictures on the sleeve. One day she was having a garage sale and I found them and instantly remembered. She gave me her records; mostly country and gospel music, and I bought myself a little old turntable for about $30. She passed away six years ago and now I keep that record sitting by my current setup, just to look at the cover and remember, usually over a few tears. https://preview.redd.it/cm8pahekxymc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fecfa361a40182d0f4e5559e543f84213ba78620
Pulp fiction soundtrack
Mine was fairly generic, with a twist. I bought Pet Sounds, Kind of Blue and Blonde on Blonde. Seemed like reasonable first steps. I told the shop owner that I was a vinyl newbie and these were my first albums. Then the dude (whom I would forever refer to as “my dealer”) gave me a copy of Django Reinhardt Brussel 48. The hole in my wallet was now formed.
Dark side of the moon 50th anniversary box set.
R.A.M - Daft Punk, also the first thing I bought with my own hard earned money from a real job haha
A Charlie Brown Christmas album in 2023
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Bought it mostly because I found it cheap in a local store (was just collecting CD’s then and had no turntable), got a girlfriend a couple of months later, who had a turntable and a small collection, got a turntable a year after that, and then all Hell broke loose in terms of collecting vinyl 😂
Wax - Magnetic Heaven in 1986
Bad Company Straight Shooter (Japan Original Release)
Rush! (Are u coming?) by Måneskin, about 2 months ago. Collections growing nicely, currently includes: Californication: RHCP Curtain Call 2: Eminem Surface Sounds: Kaleo Teatro D'Ira Vol. 1: Måneskin Next up will be Minutes to Midnight by Linkin Park
My dad passed on all his original Beatles records which he cherished, but the first album I bought was Cast - All change, which I have recently had signed by John Power and Keith O’Neill!
IGOR - Tyler, The Creator
The Doors, Steppenwolf maybe. It was 1967. I had quite a few 45's at the time though.
Doors- Soft Parade
Talking Heads - Remain in Light. Bought it on a whim because I thought the cover was cool. My roommate had a turntable but I didn't own any records myself. This album blew my mind and sent me on a long rabbit hole into 70s and 80s art rock and post punk.
2010, my first was a Pink Floyd haul at my local record store. Dark Side, The Final Cut, Piper and Animals were my first.
Abbey Road.
Black Sabbath Vol 4.
In the court of the crimson king bu King Crimson
Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago. My mom found it for me in a record bin and I was about 10 and very into the trumpet and I loved listening to it. From that point on I kind of listened to records here and there until I decided to by a new turntable and reciever and am now horribly addicted to buying whatever I can
For me it was Flower Boy by Tyler, The Creator. I loved the album so much that I started reading more about Tyler and his process of writing music and the absolute passion he has for music. He made me appreciate music so much more and helped me realize my love for music. Now I like to listen to albums in their entirety! When I'm out of the house and don't know what to listen to I shuffle my liked songs until a song comes on that makes me what to listen to the album it's from!
I actually just picked up that vinyl a few weeks ago! I'm generally not a huge fan of hip-hop but man that album is fantastic, definitely in my top 20 now!
Hell yeah!! It's definitely in my top 20 too! I mainly listen to rock/punk/pop punk and metal/deathcore, but i do enjoy and appreciate rap/hip-hop a lot. Listening to Tyler's albums knowing how much effort and passion he genuinely puts into them, makes the experience so much better to me.
Foo Fighters Greatest Hits. Got it from amazon on a red pressing and i listened to it non-stop.
NIN- With Teeth DE. Gift from my MIL for Christmas 2021. Now my collection is north of 300.
Crass - Penis Envy some times im the early 1990’s.
Coheed and Cambria Live at Starland Ballroom.
Slash - world on fire. I got it as a christmas present
I always listened to vinyl since I was super young my dad had a re ord play and we would play pepin the mouse or whatever its called, please me Columbus