Comments on: CD: What Was Your First?

By: Nina Moric

Nina Moric — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:11:46 +0000

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By: Natalia Sokolova

Natalia Sokolova — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:31:59 +0000

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By: Chris Arndt

Chris Arndt — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:30:16 +0000

My first CD gft was DC Talk’s Jesus Freak single…. I think.

The first self-bought was also a single…. I think… Newsboys Entertaining Angels. Unless it was a garage sale thing earlier than that and in that case I cannot recall.

By: Bruce C

Bruce C — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:39:49 +0000

I got a CD player and a CD copy of Guns ‘N Roses’ “Spaghetti Incident?” the same Christmas that I got the cassette version of the Police box set, all from my then girlfriend, which was either 1992 or 1993. (whatever year those albums came out.)

Still using that player, actually. It still handles most things I give it, even burned discs. The girlfriend, however, is long gone.

I’ve no idea what was the first CD I bought myself.

The first cassette I ever bought was “H 2 O” by Hall & Oates, and even tho I’m a fan and all of my cassettes are as gone as that girlfriend I still haven’t gotten around to picking up the CD version of it.

By: Lennon Patton

Lennon Patton — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:38:36 +0000

Wow, I must be the young one. Mine was the first Weezer album which came out the spring of 94, freshman year of high school. The only way that I could play that cd was on my dad’s external cd-rom attached to his bad ass home made pc. He was and is a computer programer. I used to sit in the living room reading comics and rocking out while he was trying to write code. Looking back, he must have liked the music or he would have never tolerated that setup.

First tape was the Footloose soundtrack. I used to rock out on my fisher price tape player!

By: Rick H

Rick H — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:08:05 +0000

In 1984, the dawn of digital music, I bought a copy of Phil Collins’ “Hello I Must Be Going” at the Strawberries in Boston’s Kenmore Square. It was in a longbox and cost $15.

One of my fraternity roomates had a first or second-gen CD player, and I wanted in on the action. I ended up (foolishly) buying a $500 CD player with my student loan money and had to get a job to get through the semester. Not the first or last time being a gadget freak bit me on the backside.

I remember the record insustry saying that CD prices would come down once we eliminated the longbox, and once disc production ramped up, and once LPs and cassettes were eliminated as cheaper alternatives. More than 20 years later, CDs still cost $15 MSRP or more.

By: Josh Herndon

Josh Herndon — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:16:42 +0000

I remember the first CD I received as a gift was the Ghostbusters II soundtrack back in 89. And shortly after that the first CD I ever bought was the Batman soundtrack. Good times. I need to pull them both out and give them a spin sometime.

By: Brian Smith

Brian Smith — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:20:37 +0000

The first CD my family ever owned was the soundtrack to “Beverly Hills Cop II,” which my brother won from a radio station. We had that thing for months before we finally got a CD player as the big family gift in Christmas 1988.

For some reason, my parents got me cassette tapes the same Christmas that they got my brother and me a CD player, so I took those tapes back to the store and paid the extra money to trade them up for CDs. So the first CD I ever got was Kylie Minogue’s “Kylie.” The first CD I ever bought outright of my own volition was “Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1.”

BONUS: The first cassette tape that I bought was “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “In 3-D.” The first 45 single, “Holiday” by The Other Ones. The first cassette single, “Sowing The Seeds Of Love” by Tears For Fears. Not, you know, that anyone asked.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:48:50 +0000

I got my first CD player my freshman year of high school – so that would be 1989 or 1990. And my first CD was Bad English’s self-titled release.

By: Tony Collett

Tony Collett — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:34:02 +0000

1989 got the Danny Elfman Batman soundtrack. Played it on my brother’s portable stereo until I got my own. The CD was on sale, that’s why the cart was before the horse.