First CD you ever bought

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It was some classical music -- probably Tchaikovsky.

When CD players were first introduced, there were far too expensive for most of us. I predicted that if they didn't come down in price to below $200 each, they would never take off. The day I saw one advertised at a price below that, something like $199, I went and bought it. I personally didn't know anyone else who had a CD player at that time.

There was a big record store near my apartment. Out of the entire store, there was only one small table about 2 feet by 2 feet with CDs. The rest of the store was all records and tapes. The CDs that were available were all classical music -- there was no rock or country or anything else available on CD then. Most of the CDs that were available were from one specific series of recordings that were also available on records and on tapes. My first CD was probably one of those.

There were also a few random CDs that weren't part of the series. I bought one of English Hunting Horn music that I really liked. It came in a CD sleeve instead of a plastic holder and I lost it about ten years ago.

Sometime after that, my brother's company started selling data on CDs. At the time he had to send the data out to a company that would produce a master and then print CDs with the data. Production costs of each run of CDs was about $1,000 for the master and then about $1 for each CD printed.

Because of the high costs, he started to consider buying a CD recorder, one of the very first available. At that time, the price for a CD recorder was about about $60,000. I told him to wait and predicted they would come down in price pretty quickly so he waited a year and bought one for about $5,000.

My first CD was Lionel Richie's Dancing on the Ceiling. It was given to me by my parents as a Christmas gift along with a Fisher CD player in the mid to late 1980s.

I just listened to that album recently. It's amazing.

I cant remember the first cd I bought myself, but my first one, which was a Christmas present when I was 16 or 17, was Led Zeppelin IV. That was in the late 90's and I was still buying cassettes into the 2000's. I started buying cds after I discovered the local independent record store, which sold used cds, and I still go there. I still collect music in all formats, but I think vinyl sounds the best.

sure wish i'd seen this thread back in the day, as it were. anyways, my first (all in the 70s 'cept for the first CD) LP record was pink Floyd, "dark side of the moon" and my first 45 rpm record was "convoy" (C.W. McCall). first cassette I bought was the soundtrack to the movie "1941." still have it someplace. it still plays but with drop-outs. first open reel tape I bought was "jungle drums" (Morton Gould and orchestra) and "mad dogs and Englishmen" (the soundtrack to the movie/concert recording). the first quad 8 track I got was "the 6 wives of henry VIII" (rick wakeman). the first CD I got, in late 1982 when they first came out, was "the digital domain" which was a sonic demonstration of the new format. still have it.

Led Zeppelin IV

it was a soundtrack from pokemon the first movie

the first music video I got was "fantasia" [walt Disney], then "the planets" [isao tomita's version of the old Gustav Holst warhorse].

First album I bought: Savage Garden - Savage Garden
First single I bought: Mr. President - Coco Jamboo

the first music DVD i got was a musical compilation off of the ed sullivan show.

King Diamond "Them"

Best $8.99 I have ever spent!! !! !

first CD single [3"] I got [in the 80s] was a rhino mini-comp of mitch ryder & the Detroit wheels.

I still don't get how some folk can feel all LPs sound better to them than CDs their hearing mechanism must be getting different input than mine do.

First music cd I bought was HIM's album 'Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666'
First video cd I bought was Tom and Jerry.

^^^ "vol. 666" sounds kinda diabolical, no?

Yep, I still love that album