[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

My very first album purchase on vinyl was:

 

It was the summer of 1978 and this album was a year old, but I was only ten myself and didn't realize that at the time. This was my first vinyl purchase for a couple of reasons. 1) It has such a cool cover. 2) Remember someone at church talking about AC/DC being evil. 3) The track - "Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be"......really wanted to hear that. 4) Spent a week with the grandparents who lived in Livingston. They took me to my first Wal-Mart where this was purchased. Grandmother gave me some money for shopping and this is what I picked.

Later that same summer, I went back for another stay with the grandparents. Mrs. Lily (old lady who lived next door to my grandparents) paid me $5 to wash her car and burn some trash in a barrel she had in the back yard (would have burnt the trash for free). Went back to Wal-Mart with my $5 in hand (grandmother made up the difference) and purchased this:

 

Not too long after this, I remember reading an article in Hit Parade magazine about Motley Crue. There was a picture of the group and there was a pentagram in the background with rising smoke and a few skulls laying around. Rode my ten speed bike to the mall one summer day and sought out, 'Too Fast For Love' on cassette. On this trip, I also picked up Slayer's: 'Show No Mercy' on cassette and a Metal Blade Records comp on vinyl.

My first used record purchase (on vinyl) was Pink Floyd's, 'Ummagumma' (had picked up a few used Kiss eight-tracks before this). 'Dark Side Of The Moon' and 'Moving Pictures' by Rush were my first purchases on CD. Genesis - 'Genesis' and "Selling England By The Pound' quickly followed.

A few years later, I had a job working at the food court in the mall. This one guy I worked with went to visit his cousin in Dallas one weekend and came back with two cassette tapes that we rocked every night while closing: 'Appetite For Destruction' and Nitzer Ebb's, 'That Total Age.'

 

The sounds of Nitzer Ebb led to:

 

I purchased Current 93's, 'Dogs Blood Rising' the same day I got 'Tired Eye Slowly Burning' and I've been hooked on the avant noise ever since.

yr one rocking motherfucker man!