My first CD was Alien Ant Farm's album. Haha.

I think I was about 8 or 9 when I bought it.

that was really the only CD I had when I was little & the only reason I had it was because my mom thought I might like it..

the first CD I bought on my own was Queen - Greatest Hits I

i had that one too!, i still do actually.

In my head this was either last year or the year before. Where does the time go etc.

Edit: the AAA album was last year or so. Not Derek buying it. Obviously, that could've been so recently as today.

they are both classic. my cousin had the backstreet's back tape I thoght he was the coolest guy in the world.

I think my first CD was an Elliott Sharp Carbon CD circa 1990.

You're right. Brothers In Arms is the first album to sell 1 million copies on cd, and Dire Straits the first band to use its longer time format so that Mark Knobfler could stretch the solos for the masses. Apologies.

pixies-bossanova. it was 1990.

1985 - Led Zeppelin IV:




I considered it a christening.

Wut?

The Alien Ant Farm album was released in 2001.

what do you mean? that album rules!!!

my first cd, my cousin gave me a scratched up copy of pearl jam ten but the first one i bought was:



still my favorite pantera album.

i have to add, though, that the only reason i started buying cds was because tapes were getting scarce and manufacturers were cutting artwork from tapes but leaving them and expanding them on cd, so i bit the bullet.

Legacy Recordings, 1990



2-cd boxed set

This was back when people where being overtly fibbed to that cds would preserve quality for years and years. Nowadays, we know you gotta buy the ultra-expensive archival quality gold-plated ones for them to really have a chance of lasting.

http://www.physorg.com/news2297.html

I am one ashamed character for this. However, i bought OK Computer a few weeks later and it still plays fine. I think i only had one or two tape singles before i got my trusty old manually opening CD player in 1996 *sighs of nostalgia*

Precisely. If someone asked me when that album was released, I would say 'recently' rather than 6 years ago. It's the memory, see, it starts going with 'old age'.

I'm off to start a thread.

nirvana - nevermind, i already had it on tape but i bought the CD for endless, nameless

I guess its cool to own this album once again.

Nirvana's Nevermind sometime in 1992, when cd's were still packaged in the long box.

All you old people who had a chance to develop good taste before CD's came out! Although that's not really an excuse, RdTv I think told me he bought a Jimi 3-disc rare comp when he was 6. For me, it was this:



I know, I know, don't judge. And the funny thing is, even now when I hear it, I don't hate it. I guess it just takes me back :)

Word.

I was about to post something to the effect of "if you only knew how much I hate CDs, you'd understand how loathe I am to respond to a post that celebrates the CD" when I saw this post.

CDs suck! They always have. I only bought them when I began to find I couldn't get the music I wanted on vinyl. That was in the early 1990s. That didn't last long, thank God. Since the mid-1990s there's been a resurgence of interest in vinyl, and I hope vinyl stomps the ugly bug of CD to death.