It was thirty years ago today...

[matgb]

Well, actually, thirty years and two days ago, the first commercial CD was released^via.

Which got me thinking. I bought my first CD player, and my first 2 CDs, on holiday in France (I'd been saving up for ages to buy one but the holiday cottage Dad'd rented was so horribly remote we were dying of boredom in the evenings). They were:
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Art of Noise The Best of The Art of Noise

I was approximately 16, so this was roughly 1990. I've still got both.

What was the first CD you bought, if any, why, and how old were you?

(yes, the title is inspired by the opening song on the first CD, for those that would otherwise insist on asking the obvious)

(And yes, it's been over a year since I last posted, no particular reason, but, y'know, this seemed like a good idea for a post so I'm posting it)

Comments

[cosmolinguist]

The first CD I bought was by the Dave Matthews Band, I think it's called Under the Table and Dreaming. I was 13 or 14. It was very important to me until I was in college -- mutual love for that band was one thing that helped me get along with my freshman-year roommate, and for a stoner jam band they had a pretty big influence on my ability to cope with teenage life even though mine was very different from theirs.

I don't still have the CD (I hardly have anything I had pre-emigrating) but my parents do still have that first CD player and still use it.