What's the first CD you ever bought, when did you buy it, and do you still have it?

[Dyslexicheart]

I bought The Beatles Abbey Road and Billy Idol Vital Idol the same day back around '86-'87. I still have Vital Idol, but the Beatles one was pretty crappy sounding and has long since been replaced.

[TBONESBURDEN]

Law and Order - Guilty of Innocence
Savatage - Gutter Ballet
Both bought in Dec of 89 and I still have both of them. Had an old Kenwood home stereo system my dad gave me, and I remember how great I thought those CDs sounded

[exitflagger]

Bought two discs with my first player: Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll and Xymox - Twist Of Shadows. Still have both. I think it was '89.

Believe it or not my primary CD player has been constantly in use since that year and still shows no signs of giving up the ghost. Technics SL-PG100. Amazing.

[daveg]

Law and Order - Guilty of Innocence
Savatage - Gutter Ballet
Both bought in Dec of 89 and I still have both of them. Had an old Kenwood home stereo system my dad gave me, and I remember how great I thought those CDs sounded

I've got both those cds laying around. I'd bet we'd be in a pretty small club of people who have both of those in our collection


My first cd was MJ Dangerous. Can't remember why cause I was a pretty big metal head at the time

[DonJuanDeMarco]

I bought bunch at Tower Records maybe around 12
First one I played was Warrant debut

Pretty sure had that cassette to cd thing
Ya put cassette in and hooked portable cd player to it
That thing was badass

I remember going to A&W just down the street blasting Sometimes She Cries over and over

Same here! Except it wasn't an A&W. It may have been a Dairy Queen or a Checkers!

It was around 1990. The first CD's I ever bought were Warrant and Poison that I previously had on cassette. MAYBE Queensryche Empire too just because the guy at the store recommended it. I had no idea who Queensryche even was to be honest, but he seemed like a cool guy and I ended up liking the record.

And yeah...I had the Discman too. Cassette deck in the car. You plugged the discman into the deck and powered it with the cigarette lighter! Those were the days, man. Now cars don't even have a place to put your damn keys nevermind your cigarettes!

[TBONESBURDEN]

Law and Order - Guilty of Innocence
Savatage - Gutter Ballet
Both bought in Dec of 89 and I still have both of them. Had an old Kenwood home stereo system my dad gave me, and I remember how great I thought those CDs sounded

I've got both those cds laying around. I'd bet we'd be in a pretty small club of people who have both of those in our collection


My first cd was MJ Dangerous. Can't remember why cause I was a pretty big metal head at the time

I'd say you are right! I also have Law and Orders second album Rites Of Passage. I bet that one is even more rare! Ha ha

[TravisBicklesMohawk]

Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking.

Nope, don't have it anymore.

[DangerZone]

It was either crazy nights or permanent vacation.
Or I may have got them both at the same time.

It was about 1988, soon after they came out.

I don’t have them anymore

[Ratt_Trader]

Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers. Bought it back around the time it was released (1985?). I had picked up a cd player and needed a disc to try in it. The Deep Purple cd was the only thing available that was even remotely interesting to me.....back then it would take months before things got released on cd, albums and cassettes were always out much sooner.

Still have the disc.

[EzyRider]

The Who - Live At Leeds

Bought it in 1987 at Sam The Record Man, still have it along with every other CD I purchased afterwards

That is a GREAT album!!

That is one of my early ones on vinyl (yeah, I'm old)

My first CD was YES 90125 (did they name it after a ZIP code?? no idea)

[ParaDime77]

First CD was the Bell Biv Devoe debut. Bought it in 91? Have long since discarded the album.

[inextrem]

Nirvana's "Nevermind". Still have it, of course.

[The Sacred Cowman]

For me it was Dokken's Under Lock & Key. It was around '91 when my dad bought a new stereo system that would play CDs. I was blown away by how great it sounded, and I started replacing cassettes with CDs, and now I have more than 2,000 CD's.

[thunderdan]

The Doors- the double greatest hits cd. i still have 1100 cds but not buying much lately due to lack of new records on cd.

[NeonKnite]

I bought 3 CDs when I got my first CD player in 1988:

Kiss - Animalize
Billy Joel - Kontsert
Huey Lewis and The News - Fore

To my knowledge, I have them all somewhere here.

[SW]

Bonfire - Point Blank

Exact date was 28th March 1990 as they were signing autographs in a record store and played gig same night at legendary 'club' here called Lepakko.

[TexAzHair]

Damn there are a lot of young people on here....either that or I am getting old

1985 CD's were becoming available

I bought Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force and Accept Metal Heart

they were expensive $15.98..... with inflation in 2024 that would be $46

I am pretty sure that I still have them both

In 1988 after I graduated college I was working at a Chevrolet dealership in Houston. I was in charge of ordering new vehicles.
An older Salesman got pissed off at me because I was ordering CD players in all of the Camaros. Then one day a customer came in
holding about 10 CD's waiting to get into his brand new decked out IROC Z-28. The Salesman was like "I guess its a new world"

[Hellsinkey]

played gig same night at legendary 'club' here called Lepakko.

I've seen plenty of good gigs there, I have even played there.

[TheDeadBastard]

Knew I was getting a CD player for graduation so I went out and bought three CDs:

The Outfield - Play Deep
Rush - Hold Your Fire
Can’t remember the third one.

Still have them in a binder somewhere.

[REO Cokewagon]

In 1988 after I graduated college I was working at a Chevrolet dealership in Houston. I was in charge of ordering new vehicles.
An older Salesman got pissed off at me because I was ordering CD players in all of the Camaros. Then one day a customer came in
holding about 10 CD's waiting to get into his brand new decked out IROC Z-28. The Salesman was like "I guess its a new world"

beautiful!!!

[REO Cokewagon]

Believe it or not my primary CD player has been constantly in use since that year and still shows no signs of giving up the ghost. Technics SL-PG100. Amazing.

[REO Cokewagon]

hey exitflagger, how's ur fuckin CD player ?? Still workin'??

[ParaDime77]

Bell, Biv, Devoe “Poison” - lost the copy somewhere along the way

[mmarramm]

The Kiss Ace Frehley solo album and Cheap Trick heaven tonight, summer 1988. Had them both up until I ditched all my CD’s two years ago…

[ArnieCunningham]

I got my first single-disc player for my 16th birthday and used gift/summer job money to get Faith No More The Real Thing, Music From The Elder (I’d never heard it and was really curious!), Ramones All The Stuff And More Vol. 1, Dead Kennedys Frankenchrist, and Peter Gabriel’s melted face album. I have no idea what happened to any of them.

[exitflagger]

hey exitflagger, how's ur fuckin CD player ?? Still workin'??

Still kickin. I have two backup players stored away, looks like I might never have to bust them out.

[Van Ailin']

Rush - A Show of Hands

I had a pretty big cassette collection in the 80s so was a bit of a late-comer to CD.

[Indy_Rob]

I made the switch from cassettes to CDs on my 18th birthday. Got a Sony Discman and Van Halen 5150 as gifts. I still have the CD but I'm pretty sure the player died. I think I finally tossed it out.

[inextrem]

I bought 3 at the same time, from a friend who was getting rid of them for some reason...early 1994.
Queen "Greatest Hits II", Queen "A Kind of Magic" and Nirvana's "Nevermind".
I still have'em and listen to them.

[inextrem]

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