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octopus-4

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Posted: November 22 2016 at 03:28

It was released in vynil years after the first CD release. At least in Italy

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Posted: November 22 2016 at 03:19

octopus-4 wrote:

Amused to Death because was not available on vinyl

https://www.discogs.com/Roger-Waters-Amused-To-Death/master/49965

Apparently not in the US (or via import maybe)

I did see it as a vinyl, but it was a double album... and not easily available, even in Europe... and rather prohibitively priced, so indeed, I went for the CD as well.

Edited by Sean Trane - November 22 2016 at 03:20

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Posted: November 21 2016 at 23:35

My first CD was Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire followed shortly after with Yes - The Yes Album. December 1987.

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Posted: November 21 2016 at 23:21

Easy, same as my first album. Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon!

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Posted: November 21 2016 at 12:26

Amused to Death because was not available on vynil

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Posted: November 21 2016 at 12:08

BrufordFreak wrote:

Kingsnake wrote:

When I started to listen to music and actually buy my first albums, vinyl was out, and cd was the whole great new thing.

I'm talking about 1988/1989. But the cd was expensive. Hot Damn, were they expensive. 40 guilders, wich translates to 20 or 25 euros.

So I bought mostly the musicassettes (as they were called). They were cheaper, and I could play them in my walkman.

But only new albums were on musicassette, and I was a Queen- and Saga-fan so I had to buy some cds in order to make my collection complete.
I guess my first cds were: Queen - A Night at the Opera and Queen I and Saga - The Works and The Beginner's Guide to Throwing Shapes.

When I realised, collecting cds was only fo the rich, I started checking out second hand stores to buy vinyl, because they cost 1 guilder per LP. In no time I had thousands and thousands of lps.
Got rid of them though. Now I only stream music.

I mostly stream music now,too, but, thanks for sharing this story! It opens up a whole new discussion topic that I've been thinking of posting for quite a while: Is music only for the rich? Both the collection of music and the playing/composition/publishing of music? Is music another medium that incites elitism?

I had the privilege of being born into an affluent family in an affluent country (the U.S.), but I always thought I was very lucky to have the means to buy music and musical instruments and recording equipment. So, can a "poor" or even "middle class" person hope to either collect music or become a musician?

I would completely say so. I am no means a wealthy man, but I collect records like a madman. I give myself a limit. I try, emphasis on try, to keep the price on each record I buy to be under $12 each. It doesn't always work out that way, but I have managed to amass a considerable collection by keeping within my budget. I will buy one or two records every Friday.

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Posted: November 21 2016 at 11:54

Kingsnake wrote:

When I started to listen to music and actually buy my first albums, vinyl was out, and cd was the whole great new thing.

I'm talking about 1988/1989. But the cd was expensive. Hot Damn, were they expensive. 40 guilders, wich translates to 20 or 25 euros.

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Posted: November 21 2016 at 11:45

I think it was a Judas Priest...I don't remember which one. Maybe sad wings of Destiny. I do remember it was in one of those weird long boxes made to fit in record displays.

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Posted: November 21 2016 at 11:31

My fiancée had bought a player and gave me my first CDs for Christmas 1984: King Crimson Discipline and Marillion Fugazi.

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Posted: November 21 2016 at 10:07

My first cd was A Trick of the Tail, and, like others, I did not notice too much difference between that and my vinyl copy. My first original cd was Holidays in Eden by Marillion.

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Posted: November 21 2016 at 10:06

Peter Gabriel - So

I had gone into a stereo shop in a mall in Toronto and asked about the whole CD thing. The sales guy asked what i like to listen to and I told him prog. He pulled out the So CD and put on Red Rain. I never looked back. My biggest regret is that as I bought up CD's, if I had the vinyl and the packaging was the same, I's unload my vinyl. Why would I need both. Dumb, dumb, dumb. I still have 1000 vinyls, but I lost a great number of truly classic prog as a result of my impetuousness.

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Posted: November 21 2016 at 09:50

First CD: La Ley - Invisible... I was young and naive

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Posted: November 21 2016 at 07:56

I bought my first CD player along with Van Halen's OU812 and Cinderella's Long Cold Winter in the summer of 1988. I'm thinking that I may have used my high school graduation gifts to make this purchase as both albums came out in May of 1988 and I graduated in June.

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Posted: November 21 2016 at 07:34

Have no idea what my first CD was. Probably a Rush album. Most likely Presto

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Posted: November 21 2016 at 07:01

I bought vinyl up through about 1991, then switched to cassette through 1995, buying my first CD player in 1995. I still have the CD player (a Sony 5-disc changer) and have never bought another one. Strangely enough, my first CD was ELO's Secret Messages, followed by the Pink Floyd Shine On box set. A couple cassettes still remain and about 20 vinyl. The rest were sold at yard sales many, many moons ago.

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Posted: November 21 2016 at 06:51

Atavachron wrote:

Tom Ozric wrote:

Does anyone remember the hype surrounding CD's when they were first introduced to the mainstream ?? I seem to recall an ad on the box showing a car running over a CD then someone placing said CD in a player and it played fine !!?? Unbelievable - like anybody would run over a CD, especially after having forked out a chunk of your hard-earned........

As I recall, word was that as long as any marks were on the surface ~ not felt by fingers ~ that it would play fine. Yes and no, but I rarely have a problem with a new or used disc unlike the flaws so common twenty years ago. I also give it to the CD for generational fidelity, transportability, lack of distortion and warpage, digital space, ease of storage, and all the great obscure releases that would never have seen daylight again were it not for the compact disk fad.

I remember occasionally getting a bum CD back in the early days. There was a Tracy Chapman CD I returned (most indignantly) because none of the tracks would play properly.

I remember very well the first CD I ever bought. It was the summer of 1987, and I had a broken jaw, which is probably one of the most miserable physical experiences possible short of amputation. My husband was great the whole time, waiting on my hand and foot and keeping me well supplied with ice cream and soup. I wanted to do something special for him once it was over so I bought him a CD player and Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms.

After that we embarked on a huge 3 year CD buying spree. At the end of it we had about 500 CDs, mostly replacing our favorites that we had on vinyl. We were living in the Netherlands at that time, and CDs were very expensive, so we used to stock up when we visited America, usually buying 50 or so on each trip.

I know there are people who swear by vinyl but I never had any issues with the audio on CDs and I really don't miss the scratches and hisses.

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Posted: November 21 2016 at 06:31

I was a late convert to CD....

I think I waited until I discovered Hybris, Gothic Impression, Vemod and Ryktigt to get into my first CDs, because it was difficult (and financially prohibitive) to import vinyls from Sweden, but I was still buying vinyls with RHCP's SBSM, Nevermind, Mama Said or Ragged Glory

And I really started buying CDs as a medium of preference when Division Bell was released (spring 94) ... and have not returned since to vinyls (OK, I buy a couple of them a year) mainly for user-friendliness issues

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Posted: November 21 2016 at 06:25

I really don't remember which was my first CD, which I though was an awesome concept, but I'm also sure sure was one of Jethro Tull's albums, probably Stand Up.

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Posted: November 21 2016 at 06:09

Atavachron wrote:

Over here in Blighty many of us recall seeing seeing a TV demonstration of a CD being liberally coated in jam and then playing perfectly well when put into the player.

Unfortunately everyone thinks this was on a TV programme called Tomorrow's World but none of the presenters of the program recall doing that so this has since been decreed "an urban myth" by The Internet, and as "proof" here is the Tomorrow's World clip where Kieran Prendiville attacks a CD with an abrasive but doesn't demonstrate that it is subsequently still playable.

Yet the memory of the Jam incident is pretty persistent as I certainly recall seeing it myself so if it wasn't TW then it must have been another topical science or current affairs programme.

There is a clip of a Breakfast TV presenter spreading honey and coffee over a disc and then playing it but that is poorly edited so you cannot see how he cleaned it off before playing, however this isn't the demonstration I remember seeing as I never watched Breakfast TV back then so would not have seen it anyway. I suspect it happened on an early evening live magazine programme such as Nationwide so no recordings of the episode exist as I distinctly remember laughing as the presenter spread the jam on the label-side.

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Posted: November 21 2016 at 05:55

My first CD... 1988: I bought (or better, my dad bought me, as I was 14) the cd player and then went to the record shop and bought "Seventh son of a seventh son". Two months later I was at the Monsters of Rock festival in Modena (with my dad), with Maiden as headliners.

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