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  • First Vinyl Record ever bought.

Woolworths , East Ham. 1975. 8 years old. top 75 singles laid out like ronnie krays meat rack…

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The Police - Ghost in the Machine. One of the few bands I still like that I was into as a kid. Great album cover too.

Bought two from wh Smith’s
The Boomtown Rats - I don’t like Mondays & Angelic upstarts - I’m an upstart

I’ve wondered whether it was the F-111 double-vinyl remix pack of Green Velvet ‘Flash’ with the DT remix, or the below. But I think it was probably the below:

Kismet’s records were beautiful things - super heavy vinyl, great design, deep sound.

    I actually have a cool answer for this one, original pressing of Metallica’s Master of Puppets. It goes for about 50 €, so not super expensive. I still own it. Have not played it on vinyl since 1994 when I bought the remastered CD.

    I bought Both the boomtown rats and upstarts singles..

    always loved this police track..

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      Snr used to promote them.

      One of them, Daryll I think it was, is a mad keen cyclist and him and Snr used to do Box Hill together.

        My then girlfriend, now wife, was in Toronto for her practicum and brought a copy of scorchio back for me. Bought my first set of 1200s a few weeks later and played it to death with a handful of other records while I figured out how to beat match. It still reminds me of those days.

          EraserOfLove God i love you Smalls. i was thinking of you when i posted that track!

          Ha!

          Thanking you!

            303abuser
            Didn’t by any other record before you got your decks.
            My very first acid house records were Baby Ford - Oochy Koochy & Urban Acid Lp

                First album was Peter Lazonby – Your Humble Servant from a random record store in Beverly, just south of York.

                First single bought from Abbey Discs in Dublin.

                  SM001 First single bought from Abbey Discs in Dublin.

                  Never forget me and my mate going halves on buying F.A.C.T in Tor Records, Glastonbury. We got it home and were not happy, because all we’d heard Carl Cox play was Fantazia and Dreamscape gigs. But remember hearing ‘Orange Theme’ and thinking “Thiss is something different! I like this a lot!”. Rest was history…

                      Dubman The guy I bought my decks from also sold me two crates of records. Enough to learn on without going completely insane listening to the same tracks back to back for months.

                        ScottBailey A mates older brother recorded the CD onto tape for me and I played them to death. FACT and the first Renaissance mix. Like you said the rest is history.

                          Dinosaur Jr.'s Fossils on clear red vinyl from Probe in Liverpool (Button St), I was 13, and already had a feeling I was going to be spending a lot of time and money in record shops.

                          Mainly bought for this banger:

                            1st vinyl = Wombling Songs by The Wombles. NOT Remember You’re a Womble. Wombling Songs was far superior. Obvs.

                            1st vinyl as a deck owner/ adult was the Junior Vasquez remix of Wavespeech.

                              vinnyt77 Junior Vasquez remix of Wavespeech.

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                              remember some boss ‘DJ’ used it on one of their Mixpub mixes. Great tune, the less said about the mix the better 😂

                                ScottBailey My mate was on with Coxy in Germany and Coxy signed his copy of F.A.C.T. It’s framed in his studio.

                                  Amps and already had a feeling I was going to be spending a lot of time and money in record shops.

                                  Same here. I was that young lad who used to take a carrier bag of 7″ records to all the kids parties on my estate. I had of those record players where you could stack 3 or 4 records on top of each other.

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                                      I think mine was The Anfield Rap

                                      Oh God, I think it was ELO. I don’t have it any more. It was a terrible thing to lose.

                                        baggers44 First album was Kate Bush - The Kick Inside. Which still sounds ethereal.

                                          First album I bought?

                                          The Merciless World of Trance.

                                          Dubman I never quite did that. I had a bunch of early electro tapes in primary school, but once I started skating at 10yo I always hung around with older kids and as such just followed their musical lead. Not sure if it was a good or bad thing looking back at some of the purchases! 🤣

                                              Amps
                                              Used to have all those street sounds electro tapes plus loads of hip-hop and reggae soundclash tapes I then took my whole tape collection down the tip when I moved out from home.

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                                                  vinnyt77 1st vinyl = Wombling Songs by The Wombles. NOT Remember You’re a Womble. Wombling Songs was far superior. Obvs.

                                                  1st vinyl as a deck owner/ adult was the Junior Vasquez remix of Wavespeech.

                                                  The original question didn’t ask for “first respectable vinyl record ever bought”, just “first vinyl record ever bought”.

                                                  The second part of your post is redundant and a desperate attempt to save face.

                                                  You bought The Wombles. That’s it.

                                                    Dubman Tapes are a tricky one, they tend to warp easily and become unlistenable if they’re not used regularly. Nice to have the box n cover for a bit of nostalgia, but you’d need to rip them to keep the music. I backed all my Cream stuff up when I realised some of the tapes were on the fritz within a year or two of being sat still.