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What was your first LP?

This is embarrassing, but you remember those BMG Record Clubs? Where you could get like 2 dozen LPs for a penny? Those are the first records I remember getting as a kid. The bill never came close to a penny but I remember getting these:

Wham - Make it Big
Huey Lewis - Sports
Tears For Fears - Song from the Big Chair
Whitney Houston - self titled
Mr Mister - (don't remember the title)

I know I know, Imma nerd, but they didn't have 12" singles on their list! That was usually what i shopped for
 
"American Pie" by Don McLean.

Although when I was about 7 my parents got me a 45 of the Batman Theme. I took it to school and never saw it again.
 
Sargent Pepper (The Beatles one, not the terrible soundtrack Bee Gees disaster) round about 1970-71 or so,
 
Chicago III. Bought it at a Dart Drug.

Terry Kath still sounds as good as ever on "I Don't Want Your Money." "Sing A Mean Tune Kid" is also a classic. I can still listen to that double LP from end to end and never tire of it.
 
The 12" extended play version of Donna Summer's Hot Stuff/Bad Girls. I was 11 and in love with Donna. I played that record to death.
 
The Beatles Second Album, bought after their appearance on Ed Sullivan. I bugged my mom until she bought it for me. Cost...$2.98. Follow that up with "Meet the Beatles." :)
 
Great topic... The Four Seasons Greatest Hits -- The cover had a big black record on the cover and their early hits -- Sherry, Big Girls Don't Cry, Walk Like A Man, Peanuts, Connie-O and others, over the tracks of the record. That was only the beginning. I bought lots more over the years and cherish them all. Long live the LP with superb sound quality over the CD format.
 
The Kinks Greatest Hits bought at Globe, Tower Plaza in the '60s. Was trying to impress my older brothers at the age of 10.
 
"Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player" by Elton John.
To this day, I consider his early work ("Honky Chateau", "Madman...", "...Yellow Brick Road") kick ass stuff compared to his work since 1990. He became predictable and boring.
 
I couldn't afford LP's, so I opted for the $1.29 45's at the time. A few of my first 45's were Hotel California, Stand Tall, Walk This Way, Muskrat Love, Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word.

If I could get an LP on sale, that was something. A few of the first LPs were Bat Out Of Hell,
Crimes of Passion, Some Girls, Dark Side Of The Moon,...

Now that was quite an idea, to go out and buy an album from 1973 in 1978. Did people really buy old music? in 1976, 1977, 1978, there was so much great new music, that the idea of radio stations playing more than one or two "oldies" per hour was unheard of.
 
Led Zeppelin IV

I know I drove my parents crazy playing it...
 
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