Which was the first record album you bought for your own money?
 
Mine was King Cobras "Thrill of a lifetime". A hard rock band that had released a previous single that i liked ("Hunger"), so I bought their new record. I remember dissapointment over the lame sound, not as heavy rock as in "Hunger". It's very predictable songs, not at all my cup of tea nowadays. =)

Kiss - Rock and Roll Over

Deep Purple : Machine Head!.. now that's gonna date me... lol

As far as I can remember...... not the first one I owned, but the first I remember actually buying.............
 

 
probably followed by...
 

 
 

Willy and the Poor Boys - CCR

Cheers,
Jerry

Ha!  I didn't buy it, but I still remember getting this one as a gift:
 

craigb
Kiss - Rock and Roll Over

Me too! Remember the big sticker inside? I remember Love Gun had this cardboard/paper gun thing in it too. I can't remember what Destroyer had. You always got a prize with Kiss records.

The first album I owned was Moving-Peter, Paul, and Mary. My mom bought it for me after a particularly fun encounter with the military nurses at Fitzsimmons hospital.
The first album I bough with my own money was Paranoid-Black Sabbath.

The very first record I had was Hysteria or Born In The USA.  I really can't remember which I had first, and I may have gotten both from Mom and Dad at the same time.  
 
The very first record I ever bought with my own money was Wildflowers.
 
Btw, just to add..  Born In The USA and Hysteria were cassette.  Very shortly thereafter we had CD, and the first cd I got was a birthday present the year it was released!!  I will never, ever forget!!  Slippery When Wet!!!   I was so hyper and off the wall when I saw that present!
 
By that time my father had a whole stack of opera cd's that he had been collecting.  I know he had to suck up his snobbery real bad to acquiesce to my Bon Jovi!!  Oh, it was so funny...

They Only Come Out at Night - Edgar Winter Group