first purchase...

not sure if this is worth a thread, but i'm new around here so please forgive any lack of nettiquette.

i was browsing through the prog archives and came across Rod Argent - listed under crossover prog.

Way back in 1972, at the tender age of 9 i remember buying 'Hold your head up' my first ever single (7" black vinyl disc for all you youngsters), running home with it and playing it endlessly on the old travel turntable that my folks had.
I thought it was the best thing i'd ever heard and when two of my friends came round I insisted they listen to it.

naturally they thought i was nuts and that it was rubbish.

Of course i am older and wiser now.
I don't impose my taste on my friends for a start, but anyway this is just a misty eyed ramble by way of saying i just realised i was buying prog related records before i even realised it.

What about you, what was your first musical purchase? and does it still rate listening to today?


(btw i should mention that subsequent purchases of Slade, Sweet and Suzi quatro demonstrate that Argent might have been a fluke)

Metal guru by t rex and kung fu fighting.....oh deary me

my first buy was Fragile by Yes. Didn't know anything about prog rock, just heard South Side of The Sky from radio and it totally blew my mind! brand new record player (my first) + Fragile = what a way to start

My first buy was Iron Maiden's Number Of The Beast.  I will listen to it occasionally but its not as good as some of their other stuff.

Let me see... The first CD I bought myself was: The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust, the next day I went back and bought Paranoid and L.A. Woman, I think I was 8 years old.

Now that's a brain strain for sure. The chances are I was around 9 or 10 at the time (1967-68) and it was probably a 45 (remember those?) Most likely a Beatles single. But my first album was ELP's debut, that I know for sure. I heard it over the summer at a youth drop in centre that they ran at the local high school. The older brother of a girl I knew had brought it in and from the moment I heard The Three Fates prog had sunk it's sharp teeth firmly into my soul. There was no looking back. Once my older cousin (4 years my senior) learned I was starting to get into music, she opened the flood gates by introducing me to the likes of Led Zeppelin, the Doors, Steppenwolf and I hooked for life. 40 some odd years later and my collection exceeds 1000 vinyls and over 4000 CD's. Not one of the worse addictions to have but I'm starting to realize that it might be time to pare back.

So much music...so little time.

I'm not going to even pretend to be cool.  Fairly certain that the first music I purchased would have been a 45 of "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" by Elton John and Kiki Dee.  First album, if memory serves, was probably KISS Alive (the first one).  

I believe my first prog album was Fragile....spurred on by radio airplay of Roundabout...

I don't have such a strong memory of buying my first LP for some reason, but it was almost certainly Elton John's Captain Fantastic. 

I usually discount The Batman Theme Played by The Markettes when I was six and did not know what music was.  I did, however, know Batman.  This was the original series starring Adam West, by the way.  My real first purchase came when I was fourteen, I think.  I had been avidly listening to AM radio for some years, and so had a good sense of what was out there, at least what hit the mainstream (at a time when the likes of Yes, ELP, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, etc were the mainstream).  Actually, the purchase was of two records: Burn by Deep Purple and Caribou by Elton John.  The latter did little for me, although I really liked Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me (I have come to appreciate Sir Elton in later years), but the Deep Purple just knocked my socks off.  As my sister said, "Oh, you like the hairy guys."  I replied, "Yeah!"  I just got a CD version of Burn, and listening to it is like visiting an old friend after a long absence.