Led Zepplin 1 ,  I heard it at a party and bought the album the next day.

@57gregy,

That's a great Red Album as well. The one that I bought was The Beatles early hits album, commonly referred to as "The Red Album". There was a Blue Album as well, which may have been close to purchase number two for me.

MakeShift
@57gregy,

That's a great Red Album as well. The one that I bought was The Beatles early hits album, commonly referred to as "The Red Album". There was a Blue Album as well, which may have been close to purchase number two for me.

Aaaaaaannnnnnd... A White Album!

Alice Cooper . . . School's Out . . . wore out the grooves on that one.

I remember it distinctly and the revelation of stereo music. My parents had just bought a stereo turntable and I was listening - falling asleep - to one of their old classical albums on my headphones...mono. Getting incredibly bored, I put on the first album I'd ever bought - John Lennon's Mind Games - it had me at its first spacious hook dreamily oscillating from left to right.
 
I think that experience more than any one thing I remember, got me hooked on music...well later it might have been for the girls too! 
 
 
 

The first 2 albums I owned (a gift from my cousin) were A Hard Days Night & Beatles For Sale
 
The first one I bought with my own hard earned cash was Sgt Peppers
 
This was followed swiftly by:
 
Let It Bleed (Rolling Stones)
Then Play On (Fleetwood Mac)
Fire & Water (Free)
 
And thus, the journey had started.........
 

 
I was am so very, very stupid.

Ten Years After   Ssssh
 

 
I saw Alvin Lee on TV with 10 years after playing Bad Scene..... had to have it. Still got it.

Alvin Lee was friggin amazing. His performance at Woodstock annihilated everyone else including Hendrix.

Now I'm feeling old.  Never had much luck at first buying albums.  First one I bought when I was about 13.  It was Best of Herman's Hermits.  What I didn't realize till I got it home it was "as played by Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass".  Then a few years later I bought The Moody Blues-ON THE THRESHOLD OF A DREAM.  Got it home, opened it up and the Doors-SOFT PARADE was inside.  For me buying albums was more of a grab bag thing.  LOL