What was your first music that you paid for?

Mine was, at the age of 12 '' Tom Jones Live at the Flamenco in Las Vegas'' I did not have a clue who Tom Jones was, I just wanted to buy my first LP. Listened to this record for a whole year before getting my second LP, SGT Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band....when I heard this for the first time...''Wow''

I had a cheap mono 1 speaker portable record player, to which I connected another ''speaker'', a $ 2,99 Radio Shack 6'' driver that I taped to a cardboard box in which I had cut a 6'' hole with a knife. So there I had it , ''Stereo'' sound!

I went to kilobuck systems since, ( with kilobuck speakers ). Funny, my memory brings me back to a time where this joke of a system (by our snobby audiophile standards) is the best-sounding system I ever had, listening to ''with a little help from my firends'' between my two mono speakers in my bedroom, scratches and all....now THAT was fun !

A yellow 45 with the theme song from the western series "Cheyenne". Can't remember what the flip side is.

I won my second 45 (Elvis's "Blue Hawaii") @ my father's company picnic by driving a spike all the way into a 2x4 with 2 whacks of a hammer. The fat drunk guy running the contest said I was too young to participate, but my father talked him into giving me a chance. The guy got pissed off when I won (3 blows/whacks was a win). I then called the old guy a peckerhead and got into trouble. Gave the 45 to my mother who later took my sister and myself to see the movie (the movie sucked).

KISS - Destroyer.

I have since moved on.

Brad Day
Atlanta, GA

Columbia House 12 albums for 99 cents: several Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Herb Alpert, Brazil 66. Can't remember the rest...

I don't know if I can do this its so embarrassing. Ok its Shaun Cassidy title unknown gee wonder why I don't remember the title probably a good thing anyway. was a LP played over and over on our killer Zenith Quadrophonic receiver turntable combination rig