What was the first record you ever bought?

[connecticuter]

What's a record?

A few years ago, my Aunt's phone broke, she told my 17 year old cousin to go in the basement and get the spare phone, which they had not used in years. He came back perplexed, there was no phone, he protested.

The kid had never seen a rotary phone in his life!

Cambod, these are what phones used to look like, when I was a kid.

[Lucky Lucan]

This is what an answering machine looked like when I was a kid. The one we had cost about 600 quid and broke down all the time.

[speargun]

nostalgia just isn't like it used to be

[cambod]

I randomly lived in Zimbabwe for a summer when I was a kid and the village I lived in still used an operator. So, if an incoming call came for somebody, all the phones would ring, and u could pick it up even if it want for u and listen in, lol.....

[andyinasia]

I randomly lived in Zimbabwe for a summer when I was a kid and the village I lived in still used an operator. So, if an incoming call came for somebody, all the phones would ring, and u could pick it up even if it want for u and listen in, lol.....

I still remember my granny's phone number on the Scottish island where she lived: 7.

[vladimir]

I randomly lived in Zimbabwe for a summer when I was a kid and the village I lived in still used an operator. So, if an incoming call came for somebody, all the phones would ring, and u could pick it up even if it want for u and listen in, lol.....

where?

Sounds like Cashel Valley with party lines to me

[jm]

Does anybody here (other than the few DJ's and me) have a turntable here?

[vladimir]

Joong at Zeppelin

If you want one, try alley hi-fi shops off Kampuchea Krom, saw some nice Thorens and Sansui numbers there, but years ago

[Felgerkarb]

My parents had a kick ass music collection, so I never had to buy much...then a little song came out sometime in the mid 70s that sent me scampering down to the local record store to pick up a copy of A Night at the Opera by Queen...Bohemian Rhapsody was so...different, it had me mesmerized.

[Sok Poupe]

First Record


That had been out for many years, but I'd heard Halo of Flies, and that song got me mesmerized...

First CD:

[jm]

Joong at Zeppelin

If you want one, try alley hi-fi shops off Kampuchea Krom, saw some nice Thorens and Sansui numbers there, but years ago

I love the guy and his place but you have to admit that the turntables at Zeppelin have become set pieces and his sound system is awful.

No Vlad I've a nice table at home was just wondering if anybody else did.

[Sublime]

In no way a reflection of my age(more of a reflection of my dads influence on my musical tastes).

[cambod]

I randomly lived in Zimbabwe for a summer when I was a kid and the village I lived in still used an operator. So, if an incoming call came for somebody, all the phones would ring, and u could pick it up even if it want for u and listen in, lol.....

where?

Sounds like Cashel Valley with party lines to me

Some 7th-Day Adventist Uni campus. I also got to go see the "operator's" switch room where she routed calls or something. That's where we had to go to make calls back to the States.

[Kpal]

My first record purchase was a 45 RPM with Hey Jude on one side and Revolution on the other. The "Hey Jude" side had a green apple on the label, while the other side showed the center cut inside view of the apple. I don't remember if all Apple Records were labeled that way at that time or not.

[Felgerkarb]

First CD:

That was my first cd too.