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What is the first album you purchased, and do you still have it?

My record collection is my passion.  I started buying albums when I was in 9th grade.  I was hooked.  I don;t think I missed a weekend visit to the local record shop in the mall from the time I was 16 until I graduated college.  I still own those albums that I took so much care to choose..Just wondering if anyone else holds such memories dear and are sentimentally holding on to their old albums.  I still play them and enjoy them every bit as much as I did back in the day.
And my first album was Elton John...Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.  Sometimes I look at the covers and think, I have listened to these so much, I am jaded.  But I put them on and enjoy them as much as I ever did.
awhittington
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wcfeil
464 posts
 
“Buddy Holly”
Buddy Holly
1958
Yup, and it’s still in my regular rotation. 
nutty
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I listened to it many times at a friend's house and while vacationing in New Orleans I found a used copy for a $1.00. I do not have the albumn but I do have it on CD. 

First CD ever, Kansas, Leftoverture. Yes so still have the same disc. 

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roberjerman
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And the Thunderball soundtrack completed the trilogy!
roberjerman
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My second LP purchase soon after was the Dr. No soundtrack - soon after seeing that movie! How about that Ursula Andress - hot!
roberjerman
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Age 12 - bought the Goldfinger soundtrack after seeing the movie in 1964. Played and enjoyed it on a GE console stereo. What a hot cover! Now long gone!
tgrisham
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The Doors. Stolen. 
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blueranger
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Let Zep HOTH. I was 13 and so embarrassed like I was buying something naughty. I played it everyday after work for weeks. Still have it for 42 years
boxer12
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Grand Funk Railroad / We're an american band

I do not have it. I was very proud of it though, took it around the neighborhood to show my friends LOL. Not sure what happened to it...    

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almarg
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I believe that I too was in the 9th grade when I bought my first album, Connie Francis' "More Greatest Hits."  I still have it.  I haven't listened to it in ages, though, as during my adult years the majority of my listening has been to classical music.  But I think of it (and her) fondly.

Regards,
-- Al 
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flatblackround
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First concert....Stones.......1966
First album.....High Tide and Green Grass
Shoplifted
Played it on a used console with a penny taped to the tonearm.  Two or three copies since then that I actually paid for.  Love the RS.
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uberwaltz
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Schools Out .. Alice Cooper.

1972 brand new, first day released.
In England.
A starstruck 12 year old had saved from his Saturday job to buy his first full length album after a few used 45,s.

It did not disappoint!

No I do not still have it.
n80
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BTO- Not Fragile. No longer have it.
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bdp24
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I joined the Columbia Record Club when I was twelve. I had been buying 7" 45 RPM singles, but LP's were now of interest. You got a free LP when you joined the Club (the 1st one's free, kid ;-), and I picked Johnny Horton's Greatest Hits, which included "North To Alaska". I don't have the copy I received at the time, but an exact replacement.

After that it was The Ventures and other Surf bands (big with teenagers at the time), The Beach Boys, and Paul Revere & The Raiders. Everything changed with the English Invasion.

awhittington OP
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Sounds like one I might need to add to my collection! Glad to hear you are like me, still enjoying it after all these years.
tooblue
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Hooker and Heat, yes I still have it and play it at least once a year. Had been buying just 45s prior, getting the radio hits as they came out and once I bought that album there was no looking back. By the way, I bought it as it was being released.
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