What was the first music you bought?

[Littlesparklepony]

Lili and Susie "Anytime" and Madonna "Like a prayer" Cassette tapes in the 80´s.

[Broken Irishwoman]

I honestly don't know. When I was a child I listened to Creedence, Boudewijn de Groot, The Cranberries, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Supertramp. But when I started to buy singles myself (I didn't get enough allowance to buy albums) I also listened to top 40 crap (not anymore ). So I'm really not sure!

Cranberries

My husband's first album was also from The Cranberries.

[Dragonflitter]

For me it would be the Pokemon 2 B A Master album on cassette when I was probably 9 or 10! And I still have it floating around somewhere. Still love listening to the songs (I found it on CD much later at a yard sale so it did eventually make it onto my ipod {and yes I still use an ipod sometimes lol.}]

I totally had that CD as a teenager, as well.

[CloudyGlow]

The first music I remember purchasing with my own money was Move It Like This by Baha Men. (Not the album with Who Let The Dogs Out) I would have been 11 or 12 at the time. My dad looked at me all surprised because it was so out nowhere. It didn't match his music tastes for sure, and all the CDs I did have at that point were Disney and Pokémon. I think I got it because I had seen the music video somewhere and enjoyed it. Come to think of it Baha Men were strangely present in my youth. I could have sworn that one day my elementary school music class was visited by one of the members. And when I went on to the Bahamas we ate at the Hard Rock Cafe where the walls were plastered with Baha Men memorabilia, which excited me.

I haven't listened to any of their other albums. I haven't actually listened to any of their songs for probably over a decade. I'm not sure I would still enjoy it. But I did get my money's worth because I remember playing it over and over on one particular family vacation.

[Tap Dancer]

I don't know. The first one I remember buying was "True Colors" by Cyndi Lauper (on cassette tape) as a kid in the '80s.

[Griffin]

I honestly can't remember, even though I'm so much younger than many of you... I didn't start buying CDs/music until the 2000s. Before that, I made some mix tapes by recording my favourite pieces when they were on the radio.

For some reason, the only album I very distinctly remember getting is 'Century Child' by Nightwish... (though it was Dad who bought it for me, lol!). I'd recently got into metal music. I must've had some albums before that but for some reason I feel like the that's the album that started my music collection.

[Gingerbread]

The first music I bought with my own money was the single "Oblivion" by Terrorvision. Still have it It was one of the first CD singles released in the UK. Prior to that it was stuff my family thought I should be into, like Michael Jackson and Belinda Carlisle. Seeing as my favourite bands include Slipknot and Godsmack, they got that a little bit wrong

[Starflashbaby]

The Lion King soundtrack when I was 6. The height of musical perfection, right there.

Definitely I listened to this tape all the time... But My parents brought it for me.... the first CD I Brought was Backstreet Boys because Most of my music was given to me as a B day Gift or Christmas Gift. 

[kiwimlp]

LOL.  My first LP was Wham - Make it Big  

[buddyboymama]

Fine Young Cannibals, The Raw and the Cooked. Yes, it was on cassette tape.

[Tiella]

Cyndi Lauper, Madonna and George Michael.

[Icicle]

Uhhh, I'll go with first iTunes purchase because it's what I remember and that was the cover of Under Pressure done by My Chemical Romance and The Used.

[aubreysmommy]

I bought a new kids on block cassette tape with my birthday money at age 8

[Taffeta]

I don't remember what the first music I bought was. I was given a lot of music stuff growing up, but I think the first one I actively asked for and got was Bon Jovi's Crossroad album on cassette (which I played so much it got chewed up and so it later got replaced by a CD). As a kid I mostly listened to the music that my parents did, so it was a mix of folk and old rock/pop music and Dad's classical stuff. I didn't discover pop/rock etc for myself until 1994, when I saw Top of the Pops on TV. I was 12. I remember it so clearly - Wet Wet Wet were no. 1 with Love is All Around. And Bon Jovi must have been on it as well, given my interest. Always was in the chart a lot then.

I do remember buying some records at a second hand sale, either at my sister's primary school fete or my Dad's school fete, one or the other. That would have been around age 12 as well. One of them was Take That's Pray (I'm that old, too)...

[Hannah66665]

I thiiiink the first CDs I got with my own money were a couple Evanescence albums (Fallen and The Open Door)... if there was something before those I can't remember.