Your first CD(s)

My first CD was a 3 inch CD by Heaven 17 Temptation.
I bought quite a few 3 inch CDs back then (1988)
I have since sold them all as my current CD player  (a Brennan JB7) cannot play them, apart from that one which I have kept for sentimental reasons.
All the extended remixes from that 3 inch CD are on the remastered edition of the parent album The Luxury Gap.

I know its not prog but it is the truth and I do like that album.

Skid Row

Eponymous by R.E.M. was probably the first CD I bought that I still have and like. This was in the 21st century because I'm both young and old-fashioned.

BrufordFreak wrote: This new trend toward a return to vinyl pressings has made me reminisce a little about the days when the Compact Disc came onto the scene (and, with it, the ageless debate over 'best' or 'purest' sound: analog or digital). I was working in a Waxie Maxie's record store in Gaithersburg, Maryland, when the Phillips and Sony companies announced their revolutionary scheme--and I converted quickly, buying a Sony CD player in 1983 and beginning the acquisition of CDs as they were issued.  I think the first four issued were SUPERTRAMP's Crime of the Century, FLEETWOOD MAC's Rumours, TALKING HEADS Remain in Light and some classical disc--though I may be wrong. I remember soon owning YES' Close to the Edge and Fragile as well as KING CRIMSON's ITCOTCK, but Crime of the Century was definitely my first. Do you remember your first CD acquisition--and how quickly you began the switch from vinyl to CD (or, conversely, how resistant you were to switching over. Perhaps some of you were still listening to 8-tracks in 1983! [My rather extensive 8-track collection of Nektar albums was lost about the same year.])

Waxie Maxie's.....  oh man...  loved taking my hard earned jack there and buying all the CD's I could.  Almost as much I loved the Octopus Garden... where you could get stoned on 2nd hand smoke and hang out with the old (to me) hippies and talk music and  find the really good odd stuff.

First CD bought? really not sure.. likely it was a Janis Joplin CD as I not only had a major musical crush on her at that time.. but also the secondary mission to piss my mother off as she HATED.. LOATHED.. Janis.

Dixie Dregs' What If and a couple Steely Dan CDs. After that, it was off to the races as LPs were things of the past for me.

Sky - The Great Balloon Race

I don't exactly remember, but Peter Hammill's "Skin" and Hawkwind's "The Chronicle of the Black Sword" were among my first CD acquisitions

No, this is embarrassing: With the advent of CDs, I felt that buying new records was for the birds as I really didn't see how they could sound better than this new and amazing technology. I was attracted to used LPs though to fill out my collection of music that wasn't yet out on CD. Because of this ill-conceived assumption (CDs sound better, right?), I've had to replace poor sounding original CD editions with better remastered versions that came later. With my financial status in mind, this has had to be done through used CDs and time lost hunting them down. And so on and so on ...

1) Yes - Close to the edge

2) Dire Straits - Love over Gold

The Clash debut album, US version back in 1987 or so.