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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3915 Registered: 05-2005 |
Inspired by Michael saying he bought R.E.M.'s Life's Rich Pageant on CD in 1986 when it came out. (I was surprised it was even available on CD then). Mine was a promo version of Pixies' Velouria single which I bought in a shop in Kenmore Square, Boston in 1990. I bought vinyl until 1989, then mostly cassettes until around 1994, then almost all CDs after that. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2107 Registered: 09-2006 |
James Brown's Roots of a Revolution. Bought at Tower Records in Seattle, 1992. Finally took the plunge because that album was unavailable in any other format and I wanted it bad. Second and third CDs bought: the Big Star twofer and Al Green's Call Me. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1594 Registered: 08-2006 |
I remember mine, and I own it still. I coveted it. The Motown two-fer of Smokey Robinson's "Goin' to a Go-Go" and "Tears of a Clown." I bought it before I had a CD player to play it on. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2108 Registered: 09-2006 |
Rob, that's funny...inspired by this thread I just posed the question over on the Xgau board, and one of the first people to respond mentioned that one too... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3916 Registered: 05-2005 |
I didn't have a CD player until 1994. Up until that point I used other people's CD players to record the disc onto tape! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1245 Registered: 10-2008 |
havent got a clue maybe substance by new order | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2166 Registered: 01-2005 |
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon. I thinking it was late February or March of 1985. I bought it a couple of months before I bought my first CD player, which I believe was in April of 1985. All the CD's your could buy in the US back in 1985 were made in Japan or Germany. If I remember correcetly, the first US CD plant didn't open until late in 1985. I used to get a lot of import CD's and vinyl from a now defunct record store in Ferndale, Michigan called Sam's Jams. Either that or the big Michigan record store chain called Harmony House (they had almost three locations, including some stores in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio). I bought DSOTM from the orignal Harmony House store. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1595 Registered: 08-2006 |
Allen, that's weird. I suppose it's the fact that those Motown two-fers were out during the early days of CDs, and they contained a lot of records that had been OOP for a long time. I picked up a lot of them back then. Still, quite a coincidence. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 640 Registered: 04-2005 |
Billy Bragg - Don't Try This At Home 1991 in Edinburgh Worked my way through several warped vinyl pressings before getting bored of going back and forwards to the shop, and finally purchasing the CD (and a player!). I remember holding the vinyl Bragg and it was like a flexi disc in comparison to a 1960s record. Maybe a third of the weight ? It was a conspiracy I tell you ! | ||
| Thomas Keitsch Member Username: Thokei Post Number: 27 Registered: 06-2005 |
Camper Van Beethoven- Our beloved.. (ca. 1991/1992) | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 275 Registered: 05-2005 |
Difficult to say, it could be a Depeche Mode thing like Black Celebration. My first Go-Betweens was Tallulah. At these times, the cd's were sometimes available several weeks after the vinyl release. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 502 Registered: 01-2007 |
Screamadelica. Late to start getting CDs as alway had vinyl, Some others as well but can't remember them | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 739 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wilder - The Teardrop Explodes It must have been about 1990 because I was sharing a house with someone with a cd player. I was proudly hoping this cd thing would be a passing fad (much like I was with rap...)and that I would not have to rebuy it all again! I was going to get Heaven or Las Vegas but as it was, that was my last "new" vinyl purchase. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2204 Registered: 10-2004 |
This one's slightly embarrassing - Christian Death - Only Theatre of Pain. It was '91, the height of my goth phase. I was 16, and a friend of my father's gave me his old CD player - one of the first CD players made by Sony - because he claimed it was skipping. Up to that point, I'd stubbornly resisted CDs, but free is free, and the CD player actually worked just fine for the next 12 years or so. My second and third CDs were Joy Division's Substance and Lush's Gala, respectively. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1065 Registered: 08-2004 |
Wow! Lush is quite a leap from Christian Death. It must have been 1991. Dee-Lite's 'World Clique' followed by Morrisey 'Kill Uncle' & 'Today Forever' E.P. by Ride. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 314 Registered: 03-2007 |
Jeff, you are making me feel old!!!! I honestly cannot remember the first cd I bought. I do know it was in the mid 1980's ( probably in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire ) and since there were not a lot of titles to choose from back then I suspect it was probably an album by a 'mainstream artist.' I started collecting cd's a year or two before I owned a cd player | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2171 Registered: 01-2005 |
First jazz album I bought, John Coltrane - A Love Supreme, Summer of 1975, from the Harmony House in the rather toney hood of Grosse Pointe, MI. Slightly off topic, but one of the very first VHS tapes I bought (mid 1985) was a very clean, but used copy of URGH! A Music War. I still have it! Has anyone bought the URGH! DVD yet? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2109 Registered: 09-2006 |
I've got it, Michael. It's from the Warner Archives collection, so there are zero extras and it probably isn't as spiffed up picture-and-sound-wise as it could be. But it's still a great chronicle, just as much fun to watch as ever. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2205 Registered: 10-2004 |
Jerry, Christian Death to Lush isn't quite a big of a leap as you might think. Lush were on 4AD, after all, a label which housed a number of bands that goth types tended to latch onto (Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, Xmal Deutschland, Wolfgang Press, etc.), so it wasn't that much of a stretch, or at least it didn't feel like it at the time. But I was also getting really into Sonic Youth around that time, so my tastes were probably a little more eclectic than the average goth (in fact, other early CD purchases included Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation and Evol). | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2661 Registered: 03-2005 |
I haven't posted on this thread because, like Hugh, I cannot for the life of me remember what I first bought on CD. I bought a single-play Magnavox in something like 1984. As Hugh said, the selection of CDs was not great. I saw CDs as the fantastic chance to not have to deal with records wearing out and ticks and pops. I know I got the Andrew Oldham-produced Stones CDs early on. I believe I got the Echo & the Bunnymen antho "Songs to Learn & Sing" very early, after having bought "Porcupine" and their sub-wonderful 1984 LP "Ocean's Rain" on vinyl. So it slots in right about then. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2662 Registered: 03-2005 |
In Hollywood there were a couple good record stores where I could buy white-label promo copies of vinyl releases for $1.99 or $2.99. That was really cheap even in the mid-80s for fresh pressings of new releases. I made a lot of discoveries that way. CDs were expensive so I often started out more conservatively with "best of" comps. The first Cocteau Twins release that I bought was "The Pink Opaque." I cannot remember if it was new or if "Victorialand" was already out. I know the first Nick Cave I bought was "Kicking Against the Pricks" but I'm pretty sure "Your Funeral, My Trial" was already out by that time. The first Fall I will never forget; it was "Bend Sinister" but I'd definitely had the CD player for about 2 years by then. |