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FluffyUnicorn83@reddit

Ace of Base Happy Nations cassette. 1992.

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Emotional_Signal7883@reddit

Cassette, The Simpsons Sing the Blues

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massunderestmated@reddit

I had a crapload of hand-me-down 45s, but the first one I bought was Michael Jackson BAD LP on vinyl.

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Miserable-Dot-5026@reddit

My first cassette tape was Paula Abdul Forever My Girl, first CD was Garbage 2.0

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WutDaFuu101@reddit

Cassette. I asked my mom for a New Kids On The Block tape and she got it.

Shortly after, Dad bought me Guns and Roses Appetite for Destruction (original cover with the crazy red guy with the big teeth).

I was 7 or 8. Thanks Dad. ❤️

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Autoclaver_4_life@reddit

Stones. Tattoo You. Vinyl! It had the stickers on the album cover

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MitchellSFold@reddit

Michael Jackson, Bad. LP, 1988. Bought it with my tenth birthday money.

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811545b2-4ff7-4041@reddit

I honestly have a Rolf Cartoon book signed by him from that time he visited my school. lol

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811545b2-4ff7-4041@reddit

It's not cool, but it was The Simpsons Sing The Blues on cassette tape.

Do the Bartman!

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megamanx4321@reddit

TMBG - Flood. CD. A friend of mine did the Columbia record deal and offered me one.

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RecentlyDeceased666@reddit

I was around 8 and I caught a train (alone) into town to go to Sanity music.

With my bday money I bought 3 things, 2 cassettes Korn follow the leader, silver chair frog stomp and 1 cd Limpbizkit significant other.

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StudentMuch1491@reddit

Hall and Oates H20 vinyl is first record I remember learning to play on turntable, was 82 or 83.

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Expert_Ebb9913@reddit

First I brought with my own money at 11-Natalie Merchant, Tigerliliy

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pow206@reddit

First cassette- DC Talk Free at Last First cassette single- R.E.M. Everybody Hurts First CD, a Christmas gift- Beach Boys Greatest Hits First cd I purchased- Nirvana Nevermind.

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Collapsonaut@reddit

Besides some Disney LPs and Masters Of The Universe read-along tapes when I was 4 or 5, my first album was Edie Brickell & New Bohemians "Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars" on cassette.

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puma_pantss@reddit

First cassette - Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em

First CD - Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness

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RelevantNothing4653@reddit

Appetite for Destruction by Guns N Roses

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GreenLeafRelaxed@reddit

CD for my 16th birthday . Foo Fighters Colors and Shapes and Batman & Robin soundtrack

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Adrasteia-One@reddit

Sports from Huey Lewis and the News on cassette.

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elphaba00@reddit

Cassette. My parents bought me Thriller, I think, in 1984.

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DStew713@reddit

Christmas of 1987 my older brother got me Fat Boys- Crushin’ on cassette. I didn’t have it for very long before my dad confiscated it. That’s the first one I remember anyway.

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FunksGroove@reddit

If you're a true Xennial, shouldn't it be Cassette?

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Individual-Schemes@reddit (OP)

Nah. Not everyone had the new technology right out the door.

I had all vinyl until the 90s but I recorded stuff from the radio onto cassette tapes. I even had an old 8 Track player in my room until I was 10. I don't think I got my first CD until I was 15 or something lame like that.

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FunksGroove@reddit

Sounds like you're the exception. Not the rule.

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Individual-Schemes@reddit (OP)

You asked. Lol

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FunksGroove@reddit

Likewise. Don't be rude when you know my statement to be true.

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Individual-Schemes@reddit (OP)

But it's not true. Just read through this thread.

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FunksGroove@reddit

I have and the absolute majority is cassette. So what is the issue here. You are out of touch with reality and can’t handle that fact. You pretend to be a Xennial. And you’re not.

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BPH21@reddit

1st CD: STP "Core"

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MrThouu@reddit

CD - Master of Puppets.

I had music on cassette before that but that was always recorded.

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Puzzleheaded_Race_90@reddit

I think the first album i ever got was like, huey Lewis or the chipmunks or maybe those were the same year. The first cassette i ever bought was iron maiden, fearof the dark (lots of copied tapes before that, though).

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Admirable-Reason-428@reddit

Cassette Run-DMC Raising Hell

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Several_Pride5659@reddit

Green Day Dookie on cassette

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Firm-Equipment-9@reddit

dookie and it was a cassette

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0peRightBehindYa@reddit

First record - Boston's Third Stage

First tape - Iron Maiden's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

First CD - White Zombie's Astro-Creep 2000

I don't remember my first digital download.

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spinners_888@reddit

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie soundtrack on cassette when 8 or 9 y/o

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Appropriate-Neck-585@reddit

First Album I remember listening to was "Thriller" at 3 or 4 years old. First album I bought was the single vinyl album of "Summertime" by Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince. It had the single, two remixes, and the instrumental.

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jasonhn@reddit

When I was 8 my grandma gave me $10 for my birthday and I bought Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits with it.

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ascensionbodymod@reddit

Neighbor gave me a mix tape with Iron Maiden, dokken, dio, and others on it when I was like 6 or 7, and then the first albums I bought were cassettes and they were Appetite for Destruction and Kill Em All.

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Inevitable_Tone3021@reddit

Paula Abdul Forever Your Girl

I was 10 in 1990 and my dad won $200 on a scratch off lottery ticket and told my sister and me that we were rich now, and we could pick out “anything we wanted” at Target (as long as it was under $20).

I bought the Paula CD and my sister chose a Barbie swimming pool.

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ManiacRichX@reddit

Beastie Boys License to ill

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EmperorSkyTiger@reddit

Same. My parents got it for me for Christmas along with a boom box. I was in kindergarten. I didn't even ask for them. They had zero clue what they would unleash into the world 😂

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ManiacRichX@reddit

You got a boom box!!! Lucky. I still had that dumb brown fisher price tape deck.

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BleechInYourEye@reddit

My parents told me once at dinner I could never listen to “dirty” rap like the Beastie Boys. A few years later there I was blasting “Efil4zaggin.” They somehow saw no difference lol

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bermanap@reddit

Guns N’ Roses appetize for destruction on cassette

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Smoky1279@reddit

I think it was "He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper," on cassette tape.

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Andro_Hypnosis66840@reddit

Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill - CD

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graveybrains@reddit

Obligatory:

"That was the soundtrack to my entire '95."

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Rude_Man_Who_Shushes@reddit

Dookie

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YouHadMeAtFacts@reddit

I think I had an MC Hammer cassette, but I know my first CD was Ace of Base.

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Tetris_Pete@reddit

All these cool kids....

...Roxette, Look Sharp, cassette.

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kpraslowicz@reddit

The Teenager Mutant Ninja Turtles album you could earn at Pizza Hut.

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Grammarhead-Shark@reddit

Mariah Carey 'Music Box', quickly followed by Meatloaf's 'Bat Out of Hell II'

I had diverse tastes. Weirdly diverse lol

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yodellingllama_@reddit

Cassette. Born in the U.S.A., if I recall correctly.

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BidInteresting8923@reddit

First album I got? Probably New Kids on the Block “Step by Step.”

First album I bought? No Doubt “Tragic Kingdom”

First album bought with the sticker? Sublime “Sublime”

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IndependentLove2292@reddit

I think the first tape i ever bought with my own money was Weird Al Off the Deep End.

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OhTheHueManatee@reddit

Cassette. UHF soundtrack. Generic Blues was the first song that I emotionally spoke to me. I think I was 8 or 9.

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burningsnowshowers@reddit

First album I bought with my own money was "Broken" by Nine Inch Nails on CD.

First album that I was given that was "mine" was "The Walk" by The Cure on LP.

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GlenBaileyWalker@reddit

Straight Outta Compton - NWA - Tape Reign in Blood-Slayer-Tape

I was 8 and a huge Bo Jackson fan. I saw a picture of both on MTV News and both bands were decked out in Raiders gear. I assumed they were the official bands of the LA Raiders gear. Best mistake I ever made.

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adamusama@reddit

Beatles Blue 1967-1970 on double cassette, I think I also got the Jive Bunny Swing the Mood single on cassette at the same time. Think this was 1989 and I was 6.

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beach_pickle@reddit

My first tape was snoop dog - doggy style, in ‘93. I was just a sheltered 9 year old rural white kid who had never heard a single snoop song, but had heard my classmates (with older siblings) all talking about it like it was the coolest thing that had ever existed. So, I had my parents drive me an hour to the closest mall to buy it.

We put it on for the drive home, and I will never forget the embarrassment I felt as I sat in the back seat of our family minivan, flipping through the J-card and seeing the naughty cartoon unfold and hearing the explicit “bathtub” skit coming through the speakers.. my hippy rock-n-roll parents just turning around and staring at me wide eyed. Haha.

We made it through side A before my dad couldnt take it anymore, and ejected it. They didn’t let me listen to it again, and gave it to my cousin who was in highscool.

When I turned 12 my parents bought me an all in one stereo for Christmas, and it picked up an Indy/college radio station from a city an hour away. I absorbed all the new music like a sponge. I bought my first two cassettes at the same time: Beck - Odelay and Daft Punk - Homework. I had my parents take me to the mall to buy them the week homework was released, at 12 or 13 years old.

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snot_cat@reddit

Purchased-cd-megadeth Countdown to Extinction and presidents of the united states ii

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jammin80@reddit

First vinyl was a read along Strawberry Shortcake book/vinyl that my grandmother bought me. I can't remember my very first cassette, but I remember the Shell gas station had those mix tapes of oldies (Cruisin' Classics) they either gave out or sold. My grandmother got me one of those as well, and I wore it our listening to Listen to the Music by the Doobie Brothers. My first cd was a gift at my 11th birthday, and it was Kris Kross.

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Organic_Cheetah_2555@reddit

Ace of Base - The Sign - on CD. It marked the start of my slow transition from making mix tapes off the radio to listening to full albums.

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cubsandpink@reddit

This was mine, too!

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Ok_Evening2804@reddit

First non-Disney vinyl was The Jets, self-titled album. Anyone else remember them? (Before this I had The Fox and the Hound on vinyl with a full-color image from the movie printed right on the record. Wish I still had that thing.)

First cassette, I'm 90% sure was Madonna's True Blue.

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literanch@reddit

Soul Asylum - Grave Dancers Union. Bought on cassette when I was 10. I still have it.

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BleechInYourEye@reddit

Bobby Brown - Don’t Be Cruel on cassette in ‘88

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Entire_Log_4160@reddit

Thriller and Ghostbusters soundtrack. My first two cassettes in 1984. Life was perfect.

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Riala4@reddit

Thriller on tape

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chadwickipedia@reddit

CD. Hammer - 2 legit 2 quit

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TheOsirisOfThisShit_@reddit

The Fat Boys Crushin' followed by Fear of a Black Planet by Public Enemy.

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alwaystheocean@reddit

Cassette. Amy Grant - Heart in Motion

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peepeeinthepotty@reddit

Cassette and I bought the EP of "Turtle Power" from the TMNT movie, haha! My first real album I think was Purple by STP, also a cassette. Hard to top that one I guess - just relistened to it a few months ago and it's still awesome.

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polipolimist@reddit

I remember having a GoGos record before I was 5.

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JeffTS@reddit

I don't know if I had cassettes before it but my first CD was Twisted Sister's Big Hits & Nasty Cuts. My parents bought it for me along with my first stereo system for some long ago Christmas.

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demonbadger@reddit

It was a cassette of Def Leopard, "Pyromania" I still have it somewhere.

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amiableviking@reddit

Ozzy Ozbourne - Blizzard of Ozz, CD

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Moons_of_Moons@reddit

I can't really remember, but I know I had Appetite for Destruction on cassette early on.

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pink_faerie_kitten@reddit

Tiffany's debut album as a cd. My neighbor gave it to me for my 9th birthday.

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Hammerhandle@reddit

Use Your Illusion I & II. My older sister got them for my 11th birthday. Then she got me The Black Album for Christmas the next month. Was a good year for shaping my music tastes, but '92 really set the tone.

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SalukiKnightX@reddit

First album was Batman Forever Soundtrack on CD (cassettes were mostly phased out when my folks finally got me my own album).

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SalukiKnightX@reddit

First album was Batman Forever Soundtrack on CD (cassettes were mostly phased out when my folks finally got me my own album).

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SalukiKnightX@reddit

First album was Batman Forever Soundtrack on CD (cassettes were mostly phased out when my folks finally got me my own album).

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Britown@reddit

The Back to the Future 2 soundtrack on Cassette. That’s the power of love!

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Highlander-1983@reddit

I had lots of vinyl and cassettes, but I remember my first ever CD was the Spice Girls. The only CD player I had at the time was the PS1 😅.

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Positively_Eric@reddit

Warrant - Cherry Pie Actually a really good album!

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jackfaire@reddit

Cassette Boys II Men

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Imaginary-Desk1408@reddit

Cassette tape. Boyz II Men, Cooleyhighharmony.

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jaybomb40@reddit

Ice Cube Lethal Injection cassette.

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herseyhawkins33@reddit

I had tapes prior to this, but vividly remember green day - dookie being the first CD I ever purchased.

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rennyvedder@reddit

Bon Jovi - Always single (Cassette) Nirvana - Unplugged in New York (CD)

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fbissonnette@reddit

Odelay on cassette

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WendyPortledge@reddit

My first record was a Fraggle Rock storybook.

My first cassette was probably NKOTB - Hangin Tough.

My first cds, I was in middle school, and got were two at once:

TLC - Crazy Sexy Cool

And

Free Willy Soundtrack

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Rodimus9@reddit

First tape was George Michael “listen without prejudice “ (6th grade)

First CD was Nine Inch Nails “Pretty Hate Machine” (freshman)

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trainwreckhappening@reddit

Weezer Blue.

Second album was She Don't Use Jelly.

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Helo7606@reddit

First album I can remember ever getting was Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry on cassette.

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OneHumanBill@reddit

Cassettes, two of them at the same time, splurging on a vacation I think in 1987. Huey Lewis and the News, Fore!, and Beverly Hills Cop 2 Soundtrack because I wanted Axel F (which wasn't on there). I still have them somewhere.

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don51181@reddit

Cassette: Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet

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yamahowzer@reddit

I found a cassette tape of 'superunknown' by Soundgarden on the road while I was doing my paper route. First album I bought was a CD of Alice in chains self titled (tripod) album.

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Claude_Henry_Smoot_@reddit

Dire Straits "Brothers in Arms" on cassette.

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TrixieLaBouche@reddit

Vinyl. Tend Good Reasons by Jason Donovan.

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ladydonttekno1@reddit

First albums were vinyl singles. Neneh Cherry Buffalo Stance, and Stevie Nicks Rooms on Fire. First cassette album was CeCe Peniston Finally.

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LiGuangMing1981@reddit

I'm fairly certain it was Blues Traveler - Four. My parents gave me that and a Panasonic portable tape player (one of the cool yellow ones with the big over the ear headphones) for my 14th birthday.

I was able to listen to my mom's tapes before that (she had a pretty good collection), but this was (to my recollection) the first tape that was truly "mine".

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SanSanSankyuTaiyosan@reddit

I don’t know my first cassette, but my first CD was 2 Unlimited - Get Ready.

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Chakachavers@reddit

First cd I bought with my own money was Fleetwood Mac's greatest hits. The first cd I owned, however, was given to me by my cousin - The Cranberries, No Need to Argue.

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JBNY2025@reddit

Weird Al Yankovich in 3D (cassette)

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Texas_Kimchi@reddit

Motley Crue Theater of Pain on Cassette.

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Speakeazie@reddit

Pretty sure it was Slippery When Wet by Bon Jovi. I still love to listen to it now from time to time.

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TuckerCarlsonsOhface@reddit

Cassette, RUN DMC Raising Hell

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cutshop@reddit

Green Day - Dookie on CD at 10 yr old

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ModeatelyIndependant@reddit

I bought "black in black" by ACDC when I was like 10. I still have it and it still plays.

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The_Wizard_of_Meh@reddit

Cassette. I was 7 or 8. It was the soundtrack to the movie La Bamba. Used to jam it in my Walkman on the school bus.

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huan83@reddit

LoL, I have the same story, minus the school bus, good old cassette walkmans.

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bananabastard@reddit

Michael Jackson - Bad. Cassette.

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FiveCrappedPee@reddit

I walked to a local record store went and bought Appetite for Destruction and Def Lepard Hysteria this was I think 88? Then I got home and my dad made me shovel snow but I remember listening on my cool new walkman to them while shoveling. Take me down to the paradise city!!!

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MoarFlavor@reddit

I don’t remember, but I will say I fell in love with a Christmas record as a little kid and that record was Buck Owens - Merry “Hee Haw” Christmas. It was one of the first purchases I made when I bought my own record player. Has a giant foldout with a black and white Santa Claus. It’s amazing. Super clean. Still love that album.

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xlvi_et_ii@reddit

Cassette. The Offspring - Smash.

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Zenitram_J@reddit

I asked my mom to get me two albums from Columbia House, and they were M.C. Hammer's "Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em'" and Madonna's "Immaculate Collection".