First album you bought.

[RoadRunner6]

Emesbee, your signature: "All we are saying, is give peas a chance" reminds me of a bumper sticker I have seen up here in the States:

"Visualize Whirled Peas"

RR6

[GMichael]

The first 45 I bought was The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There.
The first 8-track I ever bought myself was Queen - A night at the Opera. After that I picked up a bunch of Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, Ted Nugent, Boston, Cheap Trick, Yes, Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper, ELO, ELP, etc. Also made a ton of recordings off the radio onto cassette.
The first record was Rush 2112. Then, a whole lot more Rush.

[Feanor]

The first 45 I bought was The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There.
The first 8-track I ever bought myself was Queen - A night at the Opera. After that I picked up a bunch of Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, Ted Nugent, Boston, Cheap Trick, Yes, Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper, ELO, ELP, etc. Also made a ton of recordings off the radio onto cassette.
The first record was Rush 2112. Then, a whole lot more Rush.

If there was ever a POS technology it had to be 8-track. I managed to avoided it on advice from a wise engineer acquaintance who assured me casstte was the better technlogy. Haha! Beta was also the better techlology so I bought that: can't win 'em all.

So my very first sound, (I hesitate to say hifi), compenent was a Sony cassette deck as mentiond. Come to think of it one of the first, perhaps the first pre-recorded cassette I bought was "Switched on Bach" by Wendy (then still Walter) Carlos.

When soon after I got my first TT, one of my earlest LPs was Carlos' "Well Tempered Synthesizer"
...

[Swish]

...Jethro Tull's 'Aqualung' or Bloodrock III. I bought a number of 45s prior to those two LPs, but they wouldn't count.

Swish

[ForeverAutumn]

...Jethro Tull's 'Aqualung' or Bloodrock III. I bought a number of 45s prior to those two LPs, but they wouldn't count.

Swish

Excuse me while I shake my head and clear my brain from the disbelief. You bought a Jethro Tull album?!!!!

[ForeverAutumn]

If there was ever a POS technology it had to be 8-track. I managed to avoided it on advice from a wise engineer acquaintance who assured me casstte was the better technlogy. Haha! Beta was also the better techlology so I bought that: can't win 'em all.

So my very first sound, (I hesitate to say hifi), compenent was a Sony cassette deck as mentiond. Come to think of it one of the first, perhaps the first pre-recorded cassette I bought was "Switched on Bach" by Wendy (then still Walter) Carlos.

When soon after I got my first TT, one of my earlest LPs was Carlos' "Well Tempered Synthesizer"
...

I remember being a kid and my older cousin bought a new something or other and gave me his old 8-track player and a stack of tapes. I remember some of the tapes were ELO's Out of the Blue, Elton John's Good-bye Yellow Brick Road, and Supertramp's Crime of the Century. There were others but those are the ones that I specifically remember. I think that I played the ELO tape until I wore it out. I don't remember what happened to that old 8-track. It probably broke and I threw it out. But those old tapes were a big influence on me. I had completely forgotten about that until just now. Thanks for the memory jolt Feanor. I should call my cousin and thank him!