What was your very first CD?

Pawnless Endgame

Pawnless Endgame

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Just that really - your first CD and what year if you can remember.

It was 1992 for me, Michael Jackson's "Dangerous" album. Dad said that if I got good grades in school that year (2nd year of secondary school / year 8), he'd buy me my first CD. So I got the grades and asked for MJ's Dangerous.

I carried on buying cassette tapes though for a few more years, then it was 1995 when I went full time in buying CDs at age 16, in my GCSE year.

IIRC CDs were £11.99 with the cassette version usually being £8.99, and singles were £3.99 and £2.29 respectively.
 
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

On my first CD player that had the little indentation in it to play those 3" CDs you could get at one time. Still got it somewhere.
 
First singles CD's (3 bought at the same time) were Charlie Baltimore - Money, Ace of Base - Life is a flower and Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight. First Album was Savage Garden's eponymous debut.
 
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It was 1992 for me, Michael Jackson's "Dangerous" album.
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I got that album as well but it was on tape.

We didn't get a cd player until several years later.

If I'm honest I think the first CD I bought was Manics - If you Tolerate This and Aerosmith's - Don't Miss a Thing, both bought at the same time, would have been 1998.

I could be wrong but I don't remember buying anything on a CD before that.
 
@Josh - ATB / 9PM was an awesome track. It was 1998 or 1999, and the house/trance scene was in full swing.

@hiroofheroes - I had Ace of Base / Life is a Flower as well and their Flowers album :-)

On CD players, I really wanted, and I mean I reeeeeeeeeeally (!) wanted a Sony Discman. But it was £135. This was in the era when Sony/Panasonic cassette personal stereos were only £20-odd. So the parents said - "get good GCSE grades and we'll get you a Sony Discman". So I managed good / ok grades and got the Discman. That was 1995 and it lasted until 2002. Then I bought a generic (non-branded) personal CD for £70 which could also play CD-Rs with MP3s on them, so it became my first MP3 player as well.
 
Iron Maiden - The X Factor

Think I got it with some money from Christmas 1995. Sounded great on my Dad's new hifi.

It also made Blaze Bayley the voice of Iron Maiden for me.
 
My first album was given to me by my sister when I was a kid on a cassette tape, loved Meatloaf and he was a big deal in the late 80's and early 90's. She was 12 years older than me, I used to buy batteries just to listen to it and wore the tape dry.

The first CD I bought for myself? Tupac - All Eyez On Me, I've pretty eclectic taste and became a big fan of the US rap scene in my early-mid teens.
 
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That was bought for me: Spice World.

That was bought for me (that I asked for): Fat of the Land

First single I bought with my own money: Prodigy Breathe (Single)

First album I bought with my own money: In Stereo by Bombfunk MCs (Freestyler was a great earworm but that album is truly dreadful :o )
 
I dont remember exactly but the one that comes to mind as a very early purchase would be Prodigy, the fat of the land.

I never spent much money on music, I`m sure CD were about £9.99 and I was in School at the time and spent everything on gaming instead.
 
1985. I bought a Phillips CD101 CD player from a shop in Charing X road, near Cambridge Circus. Early adopter Age 19, paid £500 for it, wouldn't have done that now. I got 3 Free CD's with it, one of which I still have 40 years later and it still plays.

Phil Collins, Face Value.
 
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Brothers in Arms - 1985

I got in on the craze quite early (and expensively), I just couldn't resist the total lack of clicks and buzzes
 
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