can you still remember the first music album you bought?
By neilchua
@neilchua (888)
Philippines
July 9, 2008 6:24am CST
I love music. in fact i can play guitar and electronic keyboard (self-taught but not really that good, just the basics). i was also able to compose songs. and i can still remember the first album that i bought. it was the album of billy joel with it's carrier single 'we didn't start the fire' lol. i was still in the 5th grade then. that was 1990 i think. there was no cd yet that time. this album was still in tapes. lol. after i bought that, i start collecting albums. there was still no mp3's that time and i don't know if tapes were pirated. of course all the tapes that i had were originals. i think i was able to buy more than 50 tapes. what i did was to save money everyday on my allowance then during friday i'm gonna buy one. i still had my collections kept in a drawer. those were my investments when i was still a kid. lol
7 responses
@bigbudz419 (42)
• United States
9 Jul 08
This is my first post here and this is an easy question to answer. The first tape that I bought was Bob Seger's Nine Tonight. I was five at the time and I saw a cartoon video for Old Time Rock N' Roll. The first CD I bought was Nirvana's Nevermind. I got a paper route to get a portable Sony player in 1992. I also got Nine Tonight later on CD. Last year I had to get an Ipod just because my CD collection was now over 300 CD's and was just too much to keep track of.It was so bad that my wife tried to keep me out of the used CD shops.
@neilchua (888)
• Philippines
10 Jul 08
well let me do the honor of congratulating you on your first post. congratulations. you have so many cd's maybe if i will count my cd's it will just be 50+, plus my tapes 50+, plus the pirated cd's...hmmm secret lol. well i'm not into piracy. promise. after i got my first job, i realized that buying pirated stuff is actually stealing from someone so i stopped. i like to buy originals now because i'm after the quality. specially dvd's.
@bigbudz419 (42)
• United States
10 Jul 08
For the longest time I tried to at least buy the CD used because at least the artist's did get paid or If I really wanted an album or its a new release I would buy it new. Then I picked up something like star or people magazine. They were covering the Emmy's and it was showing people wearing $10000 outfits. Then I had no problem burning cs or pirating them. especially since I had to go to my company Christmas party in a suit from goodwill because I a decent portion of my money on CD's. I still buy a decent portion or my music since I have been listening to more jam bands that all audience to tape their shows. I figure I might as well go buy their studio CD's.
@neildc (17239)
• Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines
10 Jul 08
i remember in high school. i was courting a girl then and i wanted to offer her a song. then of course we got on. the recordings of the album are songs of lionel ritchie. i can't remember the album title but it has songs like, "Stuck On You", "Hello" and "You Mean More To Me Than Words Can Ever Say"
@neilchua (888)
• Philippines
10 Jul 08
oh my God. you just made me realize, i bought an album of the original soundtrack of Titanic which i used to court a girl when i was in my 3rd year college and i also bought an original cd album of 98 degrees to court another girl because i dedicated the song I DO to her when i was in my 6th college years. lol
@roniroxas (10559)
• Philippines
9 Jul 08
welcome to mylot neilchua. hope you like it here like most of us do. yes i can still remember the first music album i bought. it was cyndi laupers true colors album. i dont have it anymore but that was the very first album i bought. up to this day i am still a fan of cyndi lauper.
@Xdrowninghavocx (3117)
• United States
10 Jul 08
I love music too. And I also play guitar and I'm in the process of learning more on the keyboard. Sadly I can't remember the first album that I got. It was most likely between 1990 and 1995. Looking back at cassette tapes makes me laugh. What eight tracks are to me (weird) are what cassettes are to this generation, lol.
@MorningFlower (17)
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11 Jul 08
It was for Modonna but I can't remember the title of that album, I was around 7 years old :)
@pinks17 (2192)
• Philippines
9 Jul 08
I can't remember what was the first tape I bought.All I know is that I have tapes from different type of genre...i have rock,pop,opm,dirty music and some others.I gave all my tapes to a friend who collects old cassette tapes..it's vintage already...I should have sell it eh.lol
