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.
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My first I actually had five first albums, bought at a McCrory’s in York, PA back on 1965. I only still have one, the 4 Seasons’ Dawn album, and it still sounds as clean as it did back during it’s first play.
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Some really great albums listed above, folks - Animals, Iron Butterfly, Pink Floyd, Goldfinger soundtrack, Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass!!  

For me, the first LP I purchased (as opposed to inherited from my father upon his early passing) was the DCC pressing of Eagles Hotel California, which is still a reference LP for me.


I really have enjoyed reading these posts.  I spent some time this evening flipping through my older albums and listened to a few.  Amazing how I can still remember where I bought some of them, how old I was, etc.  Great music therapy memories!!!