year: 1996. I was 10 years old and I remember going to the corporate Record Store near by and my dad bought me Stone Temple Pilots' Tiny Music .... It was pretty good.

yeah, I'm ashamed !

I failed my driver's license test by ending up driving on someones front lawn. It was so bad, the cop administering the test made me sit in the back and had my dad come up front and drive us back to the DMV. On the long drive home I decided to buy a CD player and my first CD purchased for it was

fIREHOSE--Live Totem Pole e.p

My first CD was the Tyranny of the Beat: Original Soundtracks From the Grey Area compilation on Mute Records. On it are tracks from Throbbing Gristle, Swell Maps, DAF, Cabaret Voltaire, Monte Cazazza, The Boys Next Door (pre-Birthday Party band), Can, Die Krupps, Fad Gadget, Loop, Hafler Trio, SPK, Einsturzende Neubauten, Chris Carter (from TG), Non, Wire and Dome. Heard lots of these outfits for the first time from this CD. Fantastic.

The first LP I bought with my own allowance money was Synchronicity by the Police.

First cassette purchased was Heartbeat City by the Cars.

I'm feeling old.

In 8th grade on the recomendation of an older student, I bought Metallica's "Black Album" the day my mom took us to get our first CD player for the house...

I only listened to half of it and hated it. I took it to school the next day and gave it to this really hot older girl who loved them....

Right after that I bought "Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge" by Mudhoney.....I actually still think that is their best album and it is horribly underrated....it seems like noone ever mentions it....

Year: 1985. Paul mccartney - Give me reagards to broad street.
I know,I know...
Shoot me!
At that time there were only few cds available here in Brazil.However,
the first record I`ve ever bought was a tape of the cure-concert.

summer of 1991. i bought an import fugazi bootleg for $30 at an indie record store in oberlin, ohio.

KeithV wrote:My first CD was the Tyranny of the Beat: Original Soundtracks From the Grey Area compilation on Mute Records. On it are tracks from Throbbing Gristle, Swell Maps, DAF, Cabaret Voltaire, Monte Cazazza, The Boys Next Door (pre-Birthday Party band), Can, Die Krupps, Fad Gadget, Loop, Hafler Trio, SPK, Einsturzende Neubauten, Chris Carter (from TG), Non, Wire and Dome. Heard lots of these outfits for the first time from this CD. Fantastic.

This CD is great! It was instrumental in my appreciation of many of the bands listed. Loop's "Collision Time" is so goddamned good.

My first CD purchase(s) was made from Columbia House. I can't recall the precise shipment. From what I can remember it included: The Divinyls S/T, Elvis Costello's Armed Forces, The Jungle Brother's Done by the Forces of Nature, and a bunch of other crap. Well, the Jungle Brothers was not crap, and that Costello CD has "Accidents Will Happen," and "Oliver's Army" on it.

1992. The Cure Wish.

cd: "hey judester" by the didjits (89 or 90)
tape: "raisin' hell" by run dmc (86 or 87)
vinyl: "word up" single by cameo or the "sweet dreams" single by the eurythmics, can't remember. (year? who the fuck knows, i was probably 8 or something)

I bought:
Roxette: Joyride

And the next one i bought was
Guns N´ Roses: Appetite for Destruction