First album you ever bought and why...

[Sttew]

Couldn't see a thread on this topic.

I'm interested to hear what the first artist album (as opposed to K-Tel Hits!) other posters purchased and what made you buy it.

For me, it was late December 1973. Lennon, McCartney and Ringo all released albums at the same time - Mind Games, Band on the Run and Ringo. I wanted to buy Band on the Run because I really liked the first single released from the album, Helen Wheels (which in hindsight was probably one of then weaker songs on the album), and loved the title track. The price of the Band on the Run LP was $5.95.

I ended up going with Ringo at $6.20 only because I loved the cover and the 20-page illustrated booklet that came with the album.

That's how a 13 year old thinks!

Anyway, Ringo wasn't a bad album. It brought all of the Beatles together, albeit on different songs. Lennon wrote 'I'm the Greatest'. Harrison wrote, 'Sunshine Life for Me' and 'You and Me'. McCartney co-wrote 'Six O'Clock' with Linda. And 'Photograph', which remains one of my favourite 70's songs, was co-written by Ringo and George Harrison.

At one point I had over 200 LP's. I got rid of all of them in the 1990's (at the same time I got rid of the turntable with my stereo system). The only album I kept was Ringo because it was the first LP I ever bought.

 

[dumb]

can't remember the first cassette i bought, but i have a sneaking suspicion it could have been metallica, s/t. don't quite remember. vinyl - was too young to buy any vinyl really before it disappeared from popularity.
but, my first cd was deicide - amon: feasting the beast.

after owning a typical gateway album like metallica - s/t i'd gone all in. i seen a picture of the deicide album in an issue of 'hot metal', the australian metal magazine and it looked like just about the most evil thing i could ever buy in my 12-13 year old mind. i bought it entirely blind, never heard the band before in my life. for me it was sort of what i had to do back in the day because where are you hearing this? you're reading about it, album cover looks interesting, or you're scoping out what the liner notes say. i'd never heard cannibal corpse's 'tomb of the mutilated' before seeing that in the music store either.

i'd also bought this album before owning a cd player, so couldn't actually listen to it anyway.

deicide, florida death metal. before they were deicide, they were called Amon, and this is a compilation of their music from that time. and look! if you check out the band name 'amon' upside down, the 'n' is a little picture of satan!

 

[catscratchfever]

Probably Suzi Quattro's Can The Can or something by Gary Glitter (yeah, I know, I know, but some of his music was and is still good to these ears). I can remember my first mix tape (prior to buying my first album) had Dylan's 'If You See Her, Say Hello', which got heaps of Australia AM radio airplay when Blood On The Tracks was released.