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I was reading an article about this, people all remembered what their first cd was. For me, I bought two cds as my āfirstā cd: Stone Temple Pilots āPurpleā and The Crow soundtrack. Canāt get much more 90ās than that!
I still remember going to the store to buy a record in about ā90 or ā91 and being told (rather obnoxiously) that record players were āobsolete equipment.ā I knew it had been a while since Iād gone out to buy a record but geeze . . .
I went all out for my first CD purchase ā a recording of the 1812 Overture featuring actual cannons. I was like the guy in the Memorex ads, just sitting in front of my stereo letting the pressure waves from cannon fire wash over me.
The story I heard was that originally CDs were to hold only 60 minutes of music, but some bigshot at Sony pushed to have them hold 74 minutes, so the whole of Beethovenās 9th Symphony (the bigshotās favorite) could be on one disc.I remember how expensive they were when they first came out, and saving my pennies as a starving student to buy one. My first CD player cost around $280, and the discs were $35.This was back in ā86 or ā87, so double those amounts to factor in inflation.
It was about 1990. I went into a record store to look around. I saw the cassettes and those CD things, whatever they were, and went looking for the LPās. I kept looking and looking, and about the time I found one small bin of used disco 13" singles, I realized that there were no LPās in the record store. Cultural Shock!! I bought a Was (Not Was) cassette and got my first CD player for Christmas. I have a 300 CD player now, but I donāt use it very much any more.
Coyoty Premium Member over 12 years ago
And thereās a Cloud over them all.
jay_dallas over 12 years ago
Good Grief! I remember buying my first CD player and CDs ā Itās been 30 years?!?!?!
kaecispopX over 12 years ago
Thanks Dan for yet another reminder that Iām not as young I was blissfully tinking I was.
Beardocomics over 12 years ago
I was reading an article about this, people all remembered what their first cd was. For me, I bought two cds as my āfirstā cd: Stone Temple Pilots āPurpleā and The Crow soundtrack. Canāt get much more 90ās than that!
Dawn Premium Member over 12 years ago
I still remember going to the store to buy a record in about ā90 or ā91 and being told (rather obnoxiously) that record players were āobsolete equipment.ā I knew it had been a while since Iād gone out to buy a record but geeze . . .
docnuke over 12 years ago
I went all out for my first CD purchase ā a recording of the 1812 Overture featuring actual cannons. I was like the guy in the Memorex ads, just sitting in front of my stereo letting the pressure waves from cannon fire wash over me.
BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member over 12 years ago
The story I heard was that originally CDs were to hold only 60 minutes of music, but some bigshot at Sony pushed to have them hold 74 minutes, so the whole of Beethovenās 9th Symphony (the bigshotās favorite) could be on one disc.I remember how expensive they were when they first came out, and saving my pennies as a starving student to buy one. My first CD player cost around $280, and the discs were $35.This was back in ā86 or ā87, so double those amounts to factor in inflation.
JR6019 over 12 years ago
It was about 1990. I went into a record store to look around. I saw the cassettes and those CD things, whatever they were, and went looking for the LPās. I kept looking and looking, and about the time I found one small bin of used disco 13" singles, I realized that there were no LPās in the record store. Cultural Shock!! I bought a Was (Not Was) cassette and got my first CD player for Christmas. I have a 300 CD player now, but I donāt use it very much any more.