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    Posted: April 24 2024 at 15:17
When did you first bite the Compact Disc bug, and buy your first CD? What was it, and where did you get it?
          Most of us know about the vinyl revival, but this thread is about CDs....

           I bought my first cd player in 1990, when I was living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and my first CD I bought was the debut album by Quatermass. It was bought at the store Record Runner in Ottawa, and was pressed in West Germany on Repertoire Records.
                The same week, I bought my first classical CD, a recording of Elgar's 1st Symphony conducted by Sir John Barbirolli with the Halle Orchestra, with also included the Introduction and Allegro for strings by Elgar and Barbirolli, as well, pressed on the label Nixa. I am not sure, but I think the store I bought it at was L'Atelier Grigorian in Ottawa.
                 As for the music's staying power, all these years later I still listen to cds and to these fledgling recordings I bought so long ago!

              What was your first CD buying experience?
          
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I honestly don't remember. Also, over time I have sold or given away cds. The oldest one that I still have is probably Trevor Rabin's Can't Look Away(that I probably bought in the early to mid 90s) which is currently in a cd folder (I no longer do them that way though). It's certainly not the first cd I ever bought. Big Generatory by Yes is a possibility but again I honestly don't remember.

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The first CD I bought was the soundtrack for the movie The Hunger as a gift in late 1989. My Dad had given me a Sony Discman in 1990. Then I got Bauhuas' Volume One 1979-1983, Kate Bush's The Kick Inside and Kitaro's Ten-Jiku.
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A Cheap Roy Harper compilation (an introduction to..) to test the cd player i bought around 1992. Then 'Live Rust' by Neil Young, then 'Travels' by Pat Metheny (which i had to order specially and was alarmingly expensive!). Mostly bought cds to play in the car though and still have quite a few though my current car (for the last 10 years) is so old it only has a tape player!

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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

I honestly don't remember. Also, over time I have sold or given away cds. The oldest one that I still have is probably Trevor Rabin's Can't Look Away(that I probably bought in the early to mid 90s) which is currently in a cd folder (I no longer do them that way though). It's certainly not the first cd I ever bought. Big Generatory by Yes is a possibility but again I honestly don't remember.
I can (partially) kind of relate to that....I certainly have sold or given away cds in the past, and usually regretting so, later....
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Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

I honestly don't remember. Also, over time I have sold or given away cds. The oldest one that I still have is probably Trevor Rabin's Can't Look Away(that I probably bought in the early to mid 90s) which is currently in a cd folder (I no longer do them that way though). It's certainly not the first cd I ever bought. Big Generatory by Yes is a possibility but again I honestly don't remember.
I can (partially) kind of relate to that....I certainly have sold or given away cds in the past, and usually regretting so, later....

These days I might sell some but only the ones I really don't like or don't want. Right now I'm still in the process of buying (again) all the ones I used to have that I regret selling (or giving away). I had a friend in college who I gave cds to but then a couple of years later he died of cancer. I never did get any of those back (not that it really matters). I imagine his parents donating them to a record store with the clerk having a WTF look on his (or her) face. 


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It was a poster sleeve issue of Pink Floyd's 'Tonite Let's All Make Love in London' (aka London 66-67)... probably around 1992/3.
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Not sure what it was but it came in a Longbox. Anyone remember those?
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My first CDs were bought same time I bought my first CD player in 1985. It was a hi-fi store in New Orleans I bought the player and a couple CDs.
I bought Journey~Escape and Saga~Behaviour, still have both. The Journey CD was pressed in Japan for US sales by CBS/Sony and the Saga was pressed by DADC which was a partnership between Sony and CBS in the US, this was the first CD pressing plant in the US started in 1983 I think in Indiana.

The Journey CD from day one gave me my first impression that this CD thing was not good, it is not a good sounding experience at all, flat and no dynamics. The Saga CD is one of my best sounding CDs I have.
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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Not sure what it was but it came in a Longbox. Anyone remember those?

Yes, I do! I think they were to deter theft. I think they stopped using them by the early 90s. When I worked in a music department of a store in the mid 90s it was those magnetic strips in the cd case instead by then.
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I still own a 1983 pressing of Vangelis - China. I remember looking longingly at that in the local record shops back in the day. In the early days of CD there was a lot of EM on the shelves as presumably that seemed the style of music the format was most suited to. I also purchased the CD version of the 1979 ELP compilation 'Best Of'. It was barely 40 minutes and was a first issue. Later editions put on extra tracks. I remember looking out for the CD issues of favourite albums and IQ - The Wake was a nice one to get in the early days especially as it had some nice bonus material. Initially I owned it on cassette and was still collecting albums in that format for most of the 90's. I then bought the CD equivalent of a 'ghetto blaster'. It had a noisy travel and virtually no performance. A big disappointment. Eventually I acquired a nice CD player and a decent set of headphones although it wasn't until the 2000's that I finally had a proper hi-fi system with CD, a cassette deck (to record the CD's) along with cabinet speakers and an amp. That was decent and gave me a good ten years of listening pleasure as my CD collection grew.
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My dad got a CD player in 1985 and had bought all classical CDs. I bought the first non-clsssical CD, which was Dire Straits Brothers in Arms. I got that because it was one of the earliest recording done directly to digital tape. I still have it but haven't played it in years.
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Originally posted by mathman0806 mathman0806 wrote:

My dad got a CD player in 1985 and had bought all classical CDs. I bought the first non-clsssical CD, which was Dire Straits Brothers in Arms. I got that because it was one of the earliest recording done directly to digital tape. I still have it but haven't played it in years.

I'm not sure if you know this but that Dire Straits cd was the first cd to go platinum in sales.
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I moved to Queensland from New South Wales in mid 1992. I initially moved into a rental for six months while the house I currently live in was being built a few kilometres away. I recall buying my first CD player, but don't recall where in Queensland I was living at the time (the shopping centre where I bought the CD player isn't a clue). Let's say I got my first CD late 1992 or early 1993. I wasn't especially keen to move over to the new technology, but eventually succumbed as it was becoming clear that the old technology was becoming obsolete. I can only recall one CD although there may have been another one or two that I bought at the same time. The CD I do recall was 10cc - A Decade of Hits. I didn't have any 10cc in my collection at the time, and I never bought any since, though I do like the CD I bought.
 
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I *think* my first CDs were Rush: Signals & Journey: Infinity, bought together around 1991/2. Even at this late stage, CDs were still relatively limited and expensive in the UK if IIRC?
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