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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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First CD: La Ley - Invisible... I was young and naive
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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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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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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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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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Originally posted by Kingsnake 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?
 
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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

Originally posted by Kingsnake 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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Amused to Death because was not available on vynil
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Easy, same as my first album.  Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon!
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My first CD was Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire followed shortly after with Yes - The Yes Album. December 1987.
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Originally posted by octopus-4 octopus-4 wrote:

Amused to Death because was not available on vinyl
 
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.


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It was released in vynil years after the first CD release. At least in Italy
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I bought my first CD player in 1990. My first CD was Quatermass's debut. And my second CD-and first classical music one-was Elgar Symphony 1 conducted by Sir John Barbirolli and the Halle Orchestra, paired up with the Elgar Introduction and Allegro for strings, the same.
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My first CD was Peter Gabriel IV ( Security ) bought in 1983. I had been waiting for the technology to be available to the public since first reading about it in 1979. The biggest obstacle the producers faced was manufacturing the discs, which required a level of precision not commonly available at the time. I still have this CD, and even at 33 years of age it looks and plays like new. I never regretted the phase out of vinyl, and was eager to replace my LP collection. ( Though I still have most of it )
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

One thing we early-adopters picked up on very quickly was those mid-80s reissues didn't sound any different to their original vinyls apart from lacking the clicks and scratches, and in some cases (such as that "The Complete Old Mikefield" compilation I showed earlier) perhaps even a little worse. 

Ignoring the Audiophilatelists, who in 1985 still favoured reel-to-reel tape and valve/tube amps over vinyl and solid-state, (and whose opinions of CD and digital would never be positive in a million years of smashing their heads against an anechoic chamber wall), CD was struggling to live up to the hype and everyone looked for explanations of why CD wasn't all it was cracked up to be every-which-way and jumped on every plausible explanation thrown our way to little avail.

While we know now that this was primarily because the remastering didn't make full use of the advantages (and limitations) of the new media, and in some cases in the rush to re-issue vinyl in CD format they weren't even remastered, at the time everyone jumped on the SPARS codes, {AAD, ADD and DDD}, since there appeared to be a direct correlation between albums that sounded blegh! [AAD] and those that sounded yay! [DDD]. In reality SPARS codes weren't an indicator of quality at all and so began the backlash against digital recording and mixing that persists to this day (which again is no indicator of quality).

The other perceived "problem" was down to the hardware, I guess we all remember those every expensive CD players festooned with buzz-words like oversampling, interpolation, anti-aliasing, sin(X)/X (which no lay-person can really understand no matter what they try and tell you) and such passing fads as the MASH converter and that over-priced nonsense, when most of the real issues were mechanical rather than electronic but as Sony & Philips had the joint monopoly on transport manufacture no one could do anything about. 

I don't remember this last stuff, Dean! I guess I was too busy playing with my G & L guitar, Magnepan ribbon speakers and Carver amp & pre-amp!
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Points: 8485 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 22 2016 at 07:45
Lots of Peter Gabriel and Van Halen here! interesting. I forgot about Dark Side of the Moon. That was a very early one for me, too. 

I never could tell the difference between AAD, ADD, and DDD--and I thought I had a discerning ear, but that analog vs. digital argument never affected me. Even the mp3 vs. wav vs. Flac differences are lost on me. Again, I find this weird cuz I think I am very attentive to sound engineering cues. Guess not! Recorded/reproduced music is still music!
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Points: 1216 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 22 2016 at 09:51
If I remember correctly, a Mozart compilation, a Phil Collins live album, Billy Joel's An Innocent Man, and a Wishbone Ash compilation.
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Originally posted by Progfan1958 Progfan1958 wrote:

My first CD was Peter Gabriel IV ( Security ) bought in 1983. I had been waiting for the technology to be available to the public since first reading about it in 1979. The biggest obstacle the producers faced was manufacturing the discs, which required a level of precision not commonly available at the time. I still have this CD, and even at 33 years of age it looks and plays like new. I never regretted the phase out of vinyl, and was eager to replace my LP collection. ( Though I still have most of it )


I think this is pretty much how I feel.
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