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The first record I ever bought with my own money was a set of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos. Collegium Aureum, an early "original instruments" recording. I still have it. I was 13, I think: I've been a classical geek for a long time.
One fairly early purchase I can date precisely is my first Shostakovich record - Ormandy conducting the Fifth. I bought it a month before I turned 15. I remember the date because I noted at the time that it was Rossini's birthday, an event that only comes around every four years.
I discovered electric folk music in a rush at the age of 20. Before I could do anything about it, I moved into an apartment shared with a guy who already had all the Steeleye Span albums, so I didn't need to buy my own until much later. He also had all the Bruckner symphonies, which at the time I did not. Heaven, in two flavors.
I was probably about 23 before I bought my first actual rock album. It was The Beatles 1967-1970.
When I got a CD player as a gift (I still have it), about five years after they were introduced, a couple of discs came with it. But I don't remember for sure what the first CD I bought on my own was. For some time I considered CDs merely a supplement to my LP collection, so it was probably Louis Spohr's Sixth Symphony or something esoteric like that.
The most recent CD I bought, or one of a batch, is described here. The most recent LP I bought is a used copy of Laszlo Lajtha's Fourth and Ninth Symphonies. You gotta get your obscure modern Hungarian music somewhere.
akirlu)The first record I ever bought with my own money was a set of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos. Collegium Aureum, an early "original instruments" recording. I still have it. I was 13, I think: I've been a classical geek for a long time.
One fairly early purchase I can date precisely is my first Shostakovich record - Ormandy conducting the Fifth. I bought it a month before I turned 15. I remember the date because I noted at the time that it was Rossini's birthday, an event that only comes around every four years.
I discovered electric folk music in a rush at the age of 20. Before I could do anything about it, I moved into an apartment shared with a guy who already had all the Steeleye Span albums, so I didn't need to buy my own until much later. He also had all the Bruckner symphonies, which at the time I did not. Heaven, in two flavors.
I was probably about 23 before I bought my first actual rock album. It was The Beatles 1967-1970.
When I got a CD player as a gift (I still have it), about five years after they were introduced, a couple of discs came with it. But I don't remember for sure what the first CD I bought on my own was. For some time I considered CDs merely a supplement to my LP collection, so it was probably Louis Spohr's Sixth Symphony or something esoteric like that.
The most recent CD I bought, or one of a batch, is described here. The most recent LP I bought is a used copy of Laszlo Lajtha's Fourth and Ninth Symphonies. You gotta get your obscure modern Hungarian music somewhere.
