The first album I bought with my own money was Captain and Tennille's Greatest Hits.
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
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-t, we had that 8-track.
I'm pretty sure the first record I paid my own money for was "Grease". Or Dolly Parton's greatest hits.
The first album I ever bought myself was a double-cassette: Depeche Mode 101 & 102
ETA: But first single I ever bought was "1999."
Gah - the mosque behind our building is having some kind of party for their school and so there are a TON of screaming kids out on the roof deck. The noise isn't the problem. The problem is that the roof deck is *right* outside my kids' bedroom window, and so I keep thinking I hear D or A crying, when actually it's just the party. SO INCREDIBLY ANNOYING.
Happy Birthday Dana!
The first 45 I bought with my own money was "I Love Rock 'N Roll" by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. At JC Penney. First album: The Go-Go's.
I guess the first album I bought was Duran Duran, "Seven and the Ragged Tiger." No idea what the first 45 was, but I loved the blue "True Blue" (Madonna) record.
The first 45 I bought was “Mockingbird” by James Taylor and Carly Simon. My first “album” was the Doors on 8-track. I was reading the Morrison biography at the time.
We never had an 8-track player so they always held that fascination with the unknown for me.
First cassette I bought was a single. Some sort of dance/trance music I cannot remember the name of the group, and yet I remember the spoken line (in the background): Qu'est ce que tu cherche? La vertu par la vie? (spelling possibly at issue.)
eta: just got my google-fu right: Enigma, Sadness Part I. And my spelling in french has deteriorated.