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dnc

Chinspired by Stalin's poast about Appetite For Destruction, when did you buy your first album on CD?

Also, write in what album.

Fire_Marshall_Bill

95 or beyond: FML I suck

1996 I believe. Grunge turned me off to rock. I did have a few records and cassettes prior.

dnc

95 or beyond: FML I suck

I don't believe you @allpurpleallgold!

rodmansrage

1990-92: my two dads were middle class liberal lumberjacks who would smash your face in

Fenderbender123

95 or beyond: FML I suck

I bought these 2 CDs at Camelot Music sometime in 1996. I was in 6th grade.

allpurpleallgold

Never owned a CD: I'm a spoiled millenial who deserves AIDS

dnc said:

I don't believe you @allpurpleallgold!

You gave me two choices; to be a millennial that's never owned a cd or to not be a millennial. I made my choice.

dnc

95 or beyond: FML I suck

allpurpleallgold said:

dnc said:

I don't believe you @allpurpleallgold!

You gave me two choices; to be a millennial that's never owned a cd or to not be a millennial. I made my choice.

Disagree. I didn't say millenials never owned cd's. I just said if you never owned cd's you're a millenial.

Sounds like you need to learn the difference. @Fenderbender123 got it.

CokeGreaterThanPepsi

95 or beyond: FML I suck

'Nsync - No Strings Attached

Doog_de_Jour

1990-92: my two dads were middle class liberal lumberjacks who would smash your face in

My parents let me get 2 CDs that first trip to Off the Record:

- Forever Your Girl, Paula Abdul
- Violator, Depeche Mode

I still remember the unnecessary excess packaging of CDs at the time:



Half the box was just empty.

YellowSnow

93-94: I am usually late, and I don't mean fashionably late

Didn't get my first CD until 1994...Beatles Rubber Soul. Had a pretty decent cassette collection for a teenager prior to that, however, and parents wouldn't buy me a CD player and I had no job in high school. Ironically, I think I am the only person in my peer group who still listens to CD's with much regularity, but I have a pretty nice Marantz player going into a McIntosh amp so the sound is solid, although not quite up to par with my vinyl rig through the same amp. It's great to be a fabulously, middle class wealthy, white guy.

Oh and if anyone has a saved PLSS post regarding bragging about one's stereo system, please feel free to add.

BennyBeaver

Write in: Can't remember and don't fucking care.

dnc

95 or beyond: FML I suck

BennyBeaver said:

Write in: Can't remember and don't fucking care.

FO, G

Fenderbender123

95 or beyond: FML I suck

YellowSnow said:

Didn't get my first CD until 1994...Beatles Rubber Soul.

Was that during the period when they released their CD albums on Apple Records? I hear those are worth money, but can't find any on Ebay to verify.

YellowSnow

93-94: I am usually late, and I don't mean fashionably late

Fenderbender123 said:

YellowSnow said:

Didn't get my first CD until 1994...Beatles Rubber Soul.

Was that during the period when they released their CD albums on Apple Records? I hear those are worth money, but can't find any on Ebay to verify.

Beatles catalog was first released on CD in 1987 and anything bought in the 90's would have been these masterings. As far as the labels that the CD's were issued under it was sort of a join deal between Capital, Parlophone (their British label in the 60's), and Apple. Used Beatles CD's aren't worth anything, unless it's some sort of rare Japanese pressing or something like that. Now 1st pressings of their 60's vinyl records, especially the UK pressings which sounded way better, are worth a shit ton. Minty 1st pressing UK Beatles LP's will fetch in the hundreds to thousands of dollars range.

RedRocket

95 or beyond: FML I suck

I signed up for one of those magazine cd subscriptions in elementary school - think it might have been BMG? It was a waste of money but I had a decent sized collection for 10-12 year old.

Napster was life changing when it first came out. Took 30min to download a song on dial up and I would play it out and get sick of it before it even finished downloading.

RaceBannon

I grew up listening to my sister's Beatles albums and my brother's superior collection of bands like Cream

The first album I bought was Led Zeppelin 2 because I had saved enough money to buy a stereo and we'd get high and listen to Whole Lotta Love where the bridge would go between the speakers.

I thought that was the height of technology and we'd never see better

dnc

95 or beyond: FML I suck

RedRocket said:

I signed up for one of those magazine cd subscriptions in elementary school - think it might have been BMG? It was a waste of money but I had a decent sized collection for 10-12 year old.

Napster was life changing when it first came out. Took 30min to download a song on dial up and I would play it out and get sick of it before it even finished downloading.

I was in college when Napster hit. Only took about 3-5 minutes on school DSL to download a tune. I must have had 50 songs queued up at any given tim.

Fuck Metallica.

oregonblitzkrieg

I remember reading about an enterprising basement dweller who signed up with BMG under multiple aliases (thousands of them) to get free cd's and then made about $1 million in profit reselling them. They put him in jail for his efforts.

Mosster47

1990-92: my two dads were middle class liberal lumberjacks who would smash your face in

I got Pearl Jam Ten with a Sony Discman for Christmas in 1991.

Doog_de_Jour

1990-92: my two dads were middle class liberal lumberjacks who would smash your face in

dnc said:

RedRocket said:

I signed up for one of those magazine cd subscriptions in elementary school - think it might have been BMG? It was a waste of money but I had a decent sized collection for 10-12 year old.

Napster was life changing when it first came out. Took 30min to download a song on dial up and I would play it out and get sick of it before it even finished downloading.

I was in college when Napster hit. Only took about 3-5 minutes on school DSL to download a tune. I must have had 50 songs queued up at any given time.

Fuck Metallica.

I remember when the federal judge ordered Napster to shut down. The day before the ruling took effect, nearly every workstation in the Odegaard computer lab was taken up by someone desperately trying to download as many songs as possible.

DerekJohnson

Mosster47 said:

I got Pearl Jam Ten with a Sony Discman for Christmas in 1991.

That album felt epic at the time but looking back it's really good but not great.

dhdawg

Never owned a CD: I'm a spoiled millenial who deserves AIDS

And proud of it

NEsnake12

Never owned a CD: I'm a spoiled millenial who deserves AIDS

Every CD I listened to as a kid was something my parents bought... didn't buy my own music until middle school and by then iPod's and iTunes had become a thing. So yes, I'm a faggy millennial who deserves AIDS.

dnc

95 or beyond: FML I suck

DerekJohnson said:

Mosster47 said:

I got Pearl Jam Ten with a Sony Discman for Christmas in 1991.

That album felt epic at the time but looking back it's really good but not great.

Really? I like to talk as much chit about PJ as anyone but Jeremy, Alive, and Even Flow are great songs and Black is still one of the best songs ever. I can't think of a song on the album that doesn't hold up.

dflea

Don't remember - I've smoked too much weed since then.

Sledog

Before 1987: my two dads gave me everything I wanted, chin exchange for cocksucking

Right after they invented them!

TierbsHsotBoobs

8 track or die

RaceBannon

TierbsHsotBoobs said:

8 track or die

First time I heard Whos Next was on 8 track

Southerndawg

RaceBannon said:

TierbsHsotBoobs said:

8 track or die

First time I heard Whos Next was on 8 track

I had half the "albums" in the cowbell poll, as well as a number of the write ins, on 8 track, and vinyl. Bought my first CD player (Denon) in 1988 and a CD copy of Dark Side of the Moon to compare to a master recording on heavy vinyl. Close enough call to switch to CD's.

BearsWiin

Fall of 1987, Def Lep's Hysteria, followed in close order by Heart's Greatest Hits and Led Zep II. My roommate at Cal had a CD player, and even though it was a Technics POS it sounded more clearer than the cassettes I was using. Soon after I bought an NAD 7240 receiver and Klipsch KG4s and we had the loudest system in the dorms.

YellowSnow

93-94: I am usually late, and I don't mean fashionably late

RaceBannon said:

I grew up listening to my sister's Beatles albums and my brother's superior collection of bands like Cream

The first album I bought was Led Zeppelin 2 because I had saved enough money to buy a stereo and we'd get high and listen to Whole Lotta Love where the bridge would go between the speakers.

I thought that was the height of technology and we'd never see better

Led Zeppelin II was the first LP I ever remember hearing on my Dad's turntable in the mid 80's. Interestingly enough, almost all the late 60's and early 70's pressing of Zeppelin II sounded like shit- i.e., muddy and the frequencies on the bass and guitar distortion are very compressed. A guy named Robert Ludwig mastered the album originally and he cut it really "hot" meaning the bass, drums, and guitar frequencies weren't dialed back at all. Problem was most turntables of the day were shit and couldn't track those frequencies- i.e., the stylus would literally jump out of the groove. So after the first 100,000 copies or so were pressed, Atlantic got wind of the issue, and had the album re-mastered but they overcompensated and made it sound like crap. I have a pretty high end turntable - which is a very relative term in hi-fi circles - than can handle a record that's mastered "hot" and have listened to one of these early pressings, and it's night and day between the later ones. Seriously the best sounding Zeppelin that you'll ever hear!!