"Tokoloshe Man" by John Kongos was bought for me when I was 7 (1971). The first records I actually bought myself were "Status Quo LIve" and "Pretty Vacant" from Woolworths in Skegness in 1977.
I swapped a Dinky Lorry for the Sweets - Blockbuster which i thought was the best cos of the sirens in it and then i went and sat on it and cracked it and now the B side has Magic Roundabout sellotape holding it together but it (the A side) still plays fine! By the way i was about 7 at the time just incase you were thinking all my transactions were done involving Dinky or Corgi cars!
Oh my word!
I think it was either Kylie Minogue or Brother Beyond on cassette. I'm an 80's child, I can't apologise.
Think I must have been about 10 years old.
I wish I could say my musical tastes had improved but I still love my cheese.
First record I bought was for my mum's b'day - Rene and Ronatta's 'Save Your Love for Me'. The first single I bought for myself was Do the Bartman. There was an acapella version on the CD, so I sampled it and made my own version .. I am sad, I know. First album was Doolittle by the Pixies... oo, no that was when I started getting into music properly. The first album I ever bought was in fact Sugar Tax by OMD. I loved Pandora's Box and Seven Seas....
Mine was Jailhouse Rock by Elvis at the time he made good records. It was one of the old 78 rpm shellac records and I dropped it and broke it on the way home. Can't have been more than seven or eight. With tears in my eyes I took it back, asked if it could be mended, and the nice man in the shop - Dancy's Records in Edmonton - gave me a new one. It's still in the loft, nothing to play it on, but you don't get rid of your rites of passage, do you?