Do you remember your first Compact Disc?

[Ponine]

Late to the party...

I got three, all gifts for Christmas, as my first CD's

Chess: London Cast recording
Cyndi Lauper
and Falco

[AllyOops!]

I'm always late to everything, so here is my contribution..

When You Wish Upon A Star: A Tribute To Walt Disney (The Mormon Tabernacle Choir) Naturally, they are an amazing choir, doing total justice to many Disney favorites. You know, I have no clue where it disappeared to. I may need to rebuy that one.

It was a Christmas gift from my Daddy, and I accidentally opened it before my CD player. I was so excited when I actually opened the player! I worked at Disneyland at the time & my Dad knew I was a Disney freak. I got some more CD's, but I can't remember what they were!

But my Mom bought me a bunch for my birthday, which is a week after Christmas. And Milli Vanilli was in that bunch. Heehee! I used to listen to that CD at my desk while studying and doing my homework. Girl you know it's true...

[Kevy Baby]

As kind of an extension of this thread - how many of us joined the Columbia House or BMG CD Clubs (or whatever they were called) to build our music collections? I utilized both to jump start the collection but came to realize that they were sometimes limited CDs - missing tracks that were available on the regular commercial releases and/or not as extensive of inserts.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I'm guilty of being a BMG whore for a while. Got some good stuff, but also got a lot of lame "Best of" crap that I eventually divested myself of.

[Snowflake]

I was Columbia House for a short while and on their please come back to us email and mail list for years. Once employed by Tower, I had no need for any stinking mail order service, I could special order whatever I wanted and get an employee discount, them were the days.

[katiesue]

I still have BMG. They sometimes have good sales with free shipping so I order a few things once or twice a year.

[NirvanaMan]

I built most of my early CD collection through BMG. I think that is why I somehow ended up with the Dirty Dancing soundtrack and the Immaculate Collection.

That said, I bought Nevermind and the next day Weird Al's Off the Deep End at a cool local music shop back in NY that sadly is long gone I'm sure.

[innerSpaceman]

Nope, never did BMG. I had a healthy employee discount in the early days of CD, so I didn't need anything to jump start my collection. And yes, I paid for far more CDs than I stole. But, yeah, both methods were the jump-starters.

I did lots of BMG-type stuff for DVDs and LaserDiscs, always scamming the system for 10-for-a-penny, then quitting before fulfilling the rest of the obligation. Signing up again for 10 free discs, and on and on.



If I were a hundredth as into music now as I was back then, I guess I'd be king of illegal downloads. I buy about 1 CD per year. The prices piss me off, as do the tech attempts to limit how many times I can copy the music from a CD that I paid $23 to legally purchase. Eff That!!

[BarTopDancer]

I was a total BMG whore. I found a lot of what I needed off of there.

As a bonus The Wherehouse would take BMG CDs in their buyback program.

[Scrooge McSam]

Yes... yes, I do

Pat Metheny, Still Life (talking)

followed quickly by

This Mortal Coil, Filigree and Shadow
and
Anita Baker, Rapture

Most of my music collection, along with ALL my electronic equipment, was stolen when someone broke into my condo during my last few months in Dallas. It appeared to me the burglar stumbled on his last trip out the door and a few CDs fell across the living room floor. This Mortal Coil was one of those disks.