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The first album you bought with your own money!

JamesSeed
JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
edited November 2021 in Not Sports Related
I’ll kick this off with two albums, as the first was a lo-priced sampler and doesn’t count:

Immediate Let’s You In (1969) which featured tracks by The Small Faces, The Nice, Eric Clapton, John Mayall etc

But my first real LP (bought with cash received for my twelfth birthday in Sept ‘69) was Hot Rats by Frank Zappa. I had no idea who Zappa was, but I liked the cover. 
Bought from the record department at Medhurst’s in Bromley, where David Bowie used to hang out after school. A few years before me of course!
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  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,355
    Beach Boys .. 'Shut Down, Vol ll' ..

     I often play Hot Rats .. Peaches en Regalia is a particular favourite
  • Cloudworm
    Cloudworm Posts: 975
    Madonna - Like a virgin
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 6,674
    Gorillaz in 2001 in a Sainsbury's near St.Ives. 
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,848
    As mentioned on The Beatles thread:

    Electric Warrior (T.Rex, 1971) - would it be one of my favourites now? No - but I do occasionally listen to some of the tracks, regrettably not on the original vinyl!

    Bought in the record shop that was on the corner of Hare Street and Powis Street - can't remember the name but remember it was downstairs with booths and headphones where you could request tracks to be played.  
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,185
    Double Barrel, Dave and Ansell Collins!
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    edited November 2021
    Lindisfarne - Fog on the Tyne - 1971
  • stockportugaladdick
    stockportugaladdick Posts: 1,136
    1978
    Blondie Parallel Lines and Elton John greatest hits II, can't remember which came first but I'd guess at Elton
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,372
    edited November 2021
    Metallica - Master of Puppets

    I bought it 17 years after it was first released, and I still see it as a 10/10 masterpiece. 
  • charente addick
    charente addick Posts: 3,810
    usetobunkin said:
    Double Barrel, Dave and Ansell Collins!
    Me too. I can clearly remember, aged about 13, going up to the counter of the record shop just off Welling Corner, trying to be cool, but very self consciously asking for the LP.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    Eddie Grant and The Equals.

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  • RopeYardRails
    RopeYardRails Posts: 111
    Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, must have been rich as was a double album but pictures and lyrics printed inside open triple cover were worth it
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    edited November 2021
    Roxy Music - Siren £1.72 from Makro (could never get their sticky tickets off)
    and Sparks - Propaganda bought same night.
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,330
    The Pious bird of good omen. Fleetwood Mac.
    Bought at the record shop at the end of Eltham High Street.
    ’I need your love so bad’ was the track I was after. 
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,725
    Eminem - Slim Shady LP 1999

    Got it in WH Smiths as they weren't all that bothered about the "Parental advisory" sticker on the front of the album. 
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,235
    Kick - INXS - October 1987. WHSmith - Powis Street, Woolwich. Great album from down under 
  • fat man on a moped
    fat man on a moped Posts: 932
    Now & Then - The Carpenters

    From 'Records & Bon Bons' in Blackfen
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    JamesSeed said:
    I’ll kick this off with two albums, as the first was a lo-priced sampler and doesn’t count:

    Immediate Let’s You In (1969) which featured tracks by The Small Faces, The Nice, Eric Clapton, John Mayall etc

    But my first real LP (bought with cash received for my twelfth birthday in Sept ‘69) was Hot Rats by Frank Zappa. I had no idea who Zappa was, but I liked the cover. 
    Bought from the record department at Medhurst’s in Bromley, where David Bowie used to hang out after school. A few years before me of course!
    I still have the Hot Rats LP, still no scratches or pops etc. 
    I re-bought the Immediate LP as part of the blog I just wrote about buying records from ‘69-74 while at (boarding) school. 
    Prog, to Roxy and Bowie and The Velvet Underground. 
    Blog URL by DM for any record nerds out there.
    Most recent post is about dub reggae, a favourite genre of mine. 
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,902
    Never a Dull moment..Rod and the Faces
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,971
    Inflammable Material by stiff little fingers, from some second hand shop. Bought Parallel Lines the following week and for the only time ever had the top two chart albums in my possession.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,355
    a right good eclectic mix on here so far .. with a lot more to come  :)
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  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,963
    The Clash 1977. Still love the rawness of that album.  Get goosebumps as soon as I hear the intro to Janie Jones.
  • RopeYardRailsBruv
    RopeYardRailsBruv Posts: 21
    RopeYardRails said:
    Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, must have been rich as was a double album but pictures and lyrics printed inside open triple cover were worth it
  • RopeYardRailsBruv
    RopeYardRailsBruv Posts: 21
    Yep, remember it …. although I think I contributed as well.

  • callowendaddick
    callowendaddick Posts: 46
    Blue Hawaii by Elvis Presley 1961
  • Draizetrain
    Draizetrain Posts: 801
    Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle...in WHSmiths, Eltham, 1979
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,461
    Up - Right Said Fred


  • Bilko
    Bilko Posts: 767
    Ziggy Stardust, David Bowie.

    brought it when it came out in 72, influence by my neighbour.
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,485
    Got a feeling it woulda been Stereo MCs - Connected
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,607
    With my own money?
    White Feathers Kajagoogoo.

    Cos no one would buy it for me 😂😂😂😂
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,423
    Can’t remember if it was High Priority by Cherrelle or Alexander O’Neal first album.

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