[mgalusha]

Cannot remember what the first CD I bought was, I'm sure it was something I had on vinyl as I was so pumped to listen without all the noise of records. I do remember that I bought the Magnavox that was supposed to be pretty decent. I truly hated the sound and purchased a Yamaha not long after that was much better. I gave my mother the Magnavox and she is still using it, some 20 odd years later it's still as good/bad as it ever was. The Yamaha died in the mid 90's. I do remember the first record I ever bought tho, a 45 of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen doing Hot Rod Lincoln.

[eric the red]

Nakamichi CD-2
Steve Winwood 'Arc Of A Diver'

[jcrane]

First CD was Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction in May of 1989.
First CD player was a portable Discman that I won at after-Prom and gave to the then girlfriend.
My first real CD player was purchased a few weeks later with graduation money and was a JVC something or another and my dad still has it in the basement. The buttons are a little rough and the corners have had better days, but it still plays!
I don't have that actual CD as it was stolen but I have replaced it.


Jamie

[Kim S.]

Mine was Peter Gabriel's "So".  It was the only cd I owned for about 6 months and I really overplayed it.  Its a great cd but I got truely sick of it.  I still have the cd and although its been over 20 years I don't think I could stand playing it even now.

[Thump553]

I was an early adopter of the CD format-a got a player for the unheard of price of $200 at a bankruptcy auction of a stereo shop.  There were very few rock CDs available then, the first one I got was Paul McCartney's Band On The Run.  My second was "Who's Next by The Who.  Each time, I remember being distinctly unimpressed with the audio quality-the only significant difference I could tell from my record was the lack of clicks and pops.  Both of these albums have been rematered and greatly improved.

Then again, that CD player turned out to be a POS-it wouldn't read a lot of discs and died a little more than a year later.

[SwedeSound]

I was also an early adopter. I think I was 15 or 16 years old (which would have put this in 1986-87), and I wanted a CD player BADLY. I saved enough lawn mowing money to have the $150-160 or so I needed to get a VERY basic, no-name player at Dayton's department store at Rosedale Mall near home. I had little leftover for CDs after that purchase, but I remember getting George Benson's Verve collection for some reason. My Dad was/is a huge jazz fan, so maybe I thought that would please him. I have never sold it, mainly because it was my first.

[mcgsxr]

Was Brothers in Arms for sure.  Still have it, great cd.

Wish I still had 90125!

[dilznoofus]

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[PaulFolbrecht]

Rush - "Moving Pictures".

This would have been '87.  I still have that CD and I still listen to it at least twice a month.  I can't believe it's been two decades!

Last week I bought my first TT and have the vinyl version on the way.  aa

[MaxCast]

My first two cd's were
Rush Moving Pictures
Police  Ghost in the Machine

My Cd player was Onkyo Integra DX-200.  I think I paid $400 for it.  I was a sophamore in college about 1986.

[Mightyburner]

I'm pretty sure my first CD was by the Ohio Players.  Back in the day, the LP was pornographic in my mind. 

 

[Imperial]

A-Ha Scoundrel Days

As a Norwegian this makes me proud to read!
You know, I had Pål Waktaars uncle as a teacher, in engineering school! Just so you know.. Hehe!
He was our law teacher... "Scoundrel days" and then some!!!

...
My first CD was Peter Gabriel "So" 1986 I believe? And I still have the CD!!!
Then I bought Pink Floyd "something! - Cant remember what it was.., and the vinyl version!!! Go figure!!!
I bought both!!! A CD and a vinyl!!! the same album!!!

I'll say, was it my ears that wanted to save me? I still don't know... 

Imperial

[low.pfile]

Funny, I just saw this thread and the last poster, Imperial, named the same CD!

And that was Peter Gabriel, So.

I remember it very clearly (It was circa 1983). I even remember going to the record store, in a strip mall, which is now 3000 miles away ( in East Greenbush, NY ) I played on my new "stereo" a technics CD player and Akai reciver with Mission 70s. I too still have that disc.

-ed

[soundbitten1]

Automatic - Jesus & Mary Chain , 1986 . Don't have it anymore .

[ellogan]

Donna Summer "On the Radio - Greatest Hits" back in 1987
Still love the CD. Although I do not play it that often, one of the tracks skips (CD rot) so I do not think I bought "perfect sound forever" as it was originally advertised.

[Docutech]

Enigma's first album MCMXC A.D.  I didn't own a CD player (yet) but Principles of Lust playing inside the record store inspired me to buy it.

[denjo]

Naxos Label Baroque CD circa 1989. I still listen to that collection (ripped wav file through SB3).

[doug s.]

my first cd i bought was big audio dynamite - b.a.d.  i purchased it in 1987, to listen to something in this '86 toyota mr2 i bought used, that had sony's 1st ever car cdp in it.  i didn't buy a cdp for the home rig until 1994, when i bought an nad cd changer...

doug s.

[slbenz]

I want you to think back to your very first cd purchase and if you still have that cd.

My first cd player (forget the model #) was a Yamaha that was at the time the cheapest cd player on the market at $500.

My first cd was Grover Washington's "Mr. Magic" that I still have.

My first CD player was a Magnavox and my first CD I purchased was Sade's Diamond Life back in 1985 which I still have.  The Magnavox was sold to my good friend who still uses it to this day!  They don't make CD players like they used to.