your first album

[plasticseaslug]

it took a long time for me to have my own money to buy things with, but the first album i ever got for myself was... some metallica one? i was in middle school and just starting to get into metal. i'm not a big fan of metallica now, but a couple songs from them still hold a lot of nostalgia for me. plus, it would be an oversight to ignore how much of an impact they've had on the metal scene.

[BlazingCobaltX]

My first album was EXID's Lady in 2018... I was 20 at the time. Kpop albums are notoriously not bought for listening, but because of the photo albums and other goods that are included with each of them. Safe for 1 Metallica album that I purchased to get early access to a ticket sale, all albums I own are EXID's.

[Nikodile]

I don't really remember which one exactly was my first, but these 3 hold the earliest memories for me! (Also I still love them to this day)

They really shaped my tastes, some for better, some for worse hah.

[SilentHope33]

first album I got as a late teen/early adult would have to be 9GoatsBlackout devils in bedside one of my favorite albums as a 20 yr old.

[arsenicCatnip]

Oh man, this is gonna show my disconnect from the new world so much...but the first album I bought for myself was "Hunting High and Low" by A-ha!! I remember going to the CD store in the big mall in the town over, and buying that with my dad. We had hamburgers afterwards. I had my own CDs before that, but it was all stuff that my parents bought me. I remember most vividly getting the complete MCR discography (at the time) for my 14th birthday, and we have a photograph of me sitting at the dining table in the morning, holding all their albums in my hand, wearing a Black Parade shirt, with the most shit-eating grin on my face :'-] Oh, the memories!

[Misanthropic Monster™]

what was your first album that you bought for yourself? how old were you, and what format was it on?
 

The first ever album I bought myself was The Slim Shady LP, it was on CD and I was 16 years old. 

[glassVaseCamelCase]

First album I bought myself?

A couple of months ago I picked up a cd of The Life Pursuit by Belle and Sebastian from a vintage sale



Lovely album. Course by then I'd already been a fan for a good year

[PurpleHello98]

My first two albums I bought at the same time shortly after my thirteenth birthday at my favourite used CD store. One was Britney by Britney Spears (I had gotten her first two albums the previous Christmas and was obsessed) and the other was the Backstreet Boys's debut self-titled album (the European one, not to be confused with the American one of the same name). I still think they both hold up pretty well, although neither is my favourite now by their respective artists. I liked both at the time, and for a long while Britney was my favourite album of all time! I still love its aesthetic, including the design on the disc.