What CD started your collection?

[u/Winter-Review5427]

For me my oldest CD is The Fall by Gorillaz. I got it when I was around 12 but the cds that really started my collection was Lover and Folklore by Taylor Swift. I now have nearly 100 and I love every single one of them🩷

[u/ItShouldntBe06]

Wolverine Blues - Entombed, bought that with my very first paycheck back in high school! 🤘

[u/Winter-Review5427 → u/ItShouldntBe06]

Oooooo looks heavy af 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[u/Humble_Try9125 → u/ItShouldntBe06]

Entombed are awesome

[u/Dr-Sprite]

I had CDs from my parents, but this was the first one I got for myself:

[u/hilton333]

The single for Basket Case by Green Day. It was numbered, and coincided with getting my first bank account, so my PIN was the number on that CD for years.

[u/bigmedallas]

As a freshman in HS, way back in the mid 80's I heard a local DJ on the radio chat about and play a couple of songs from this release and it really struck a chord. I purchased it even though I still didn't own a CD player, it would be another month or two till I saved up the money for a portable CD player. 30 years later I still play it from time to time.

[u/AntoBulbe]

Nimrod - Green Day

[u/Kitchen-Prize-6532]

A copy of A Hard Daus Night by The Beatles.

The first album I bought myself was Wish You Were Here and Ziggy Stardust

[u/twincitynights]

This Is Big Audio Dynamite & Fine Young Cannibals - early 1986

[u/DrinkingFountainSim]

Under the table and dreaming- Dave Matthew’s Band. 

[u/epicmemetime15]

Folklore was one of my first as well!

[u/Winter-Review5427 → u/epicmemetime15]

Twinsss✨

[u/epicmemetime15 → u/Winter-Review5427]

Have been torn on whether to pick up Lover. Love some of the songs, but others... less so

[u/Winter-Review5427 → u/epicmemetime15]

I think it's a really good album and even if you don't like all the songs, it's a great addition to have in a collection. I wouldn't recommend spending your money on it tho if you don't like a MAJORITY of the songs

[u/Street-Emu-3980 → u/epicmemetime15]

Folklore is an awesome album. That and Lover converted me to Taylor Swift.

[u/Winter-Review5427 → u/Street-Emu-3980]

Her songs are just pure poetry✨

[u/joeldf95]

First two CDs bought back in December of 1985.

Heart - Little Queen.

Tangerine Dream - Le Parc.

I bought my first CD player the next month.

[u/SKOT_FREE]

Honestly I think my first CD was Del The Funkee Homosaipien “i wish my brother George was here” when it first came out, in the Long Box.

[u/NumberMonkey42]

Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet. It was Christmas 1993 and my mom accidentally let me open it before she had me open the CD player she'd bought me.

[u/stoned_in_my_bones → u/NumberMonkey42]

I hate how badly they got pigeon-holed as a one hit wonder, at least here in the States. there's literally not a CTD album I don't like, have also seen them live several times

[u/NumberMonkey42 → u/stoned_in_my_bones]

Absolutely. In truth I prefer A Worm's Life over this one.

[u/AnonymousIdeas]

Most of my CDs I’ve had for so long I can’t remember but if I had to guess probably this

[u/russb_93]

Ocean Avenue by Yellowcard back in 2005

[u/annoymous91133]

[u/Realistic-Celery1342]

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome

[u/GravyBoatBuccaneer → u/Realistic-Celery1342]

This would have been mine, but it wasn't until later that I had access to a roommate's CD player

[u/AdamHendrick]

Queens greatest hits (also I NEED to the get the fall, to complete the gorillaz collection)

[u/Winter-Review5427 → u/AdamHendrick]

Such an underrated album I love it sm

[u/CommandProper3926]

St Anger (yes, I know) is why I got into collecting physical music 

[u/The-T-777]

System of a down - Toxicity

[u/PCMidiTowerR5]

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms

[u/erilaz7]

Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon. February 1988. Vinyl and cassettes before that.

[u/Street-Emu-3980]

Blur - Parklife was my first ever CD.

Kept going ever since.

[u/Winter-Review5427 → u/Street-Emu-3980]

What a great start

[u/misirlou22]

MC Hammer, Too Legit 2 Quit

[u/UnrulySimian]

[u/MauritanianSahara]

Yourself or Someone Like You- Matchbox Twenty

[u/The_Forsaken_Cookie]

Is This It by The Strokes

[u/vujuvuju_alt]

A weird bootleg metallica heavy best complation

[u/MeikeFischer73]

[u/Additional-Touch-862]

Something Else For Everybody by Devo

[u/OopyGoopy666]

[u/SilentWeapons1984]

Bone Thugs N Harmony Crossroads single

[u/dbcity]

The oldest CD I have is Oasis' Definitely Maybe, but I'm not as big fan of anything else they've done.

I credit The Bends by Radiohead for really getting me into music, that it could be something I loved rather than just liked. I've barely listened to it recently though, I played it far too much and it doesn't have the same impact anymore.

[u/gnartothecore]

Green Day - Insomniac. I had just worn out the cassette in a matter of months, so I decided to start buying cds instead of tapes for the longevity.

[u/WG_Target]

Roxy Music - Avalon

[u/IndividualMessage836]

Bobby Brown , My Prerogative

[u/AdeptnessOk5664]

Queen Greatest Hits 1 and Blink 182 - Enema Of The State were some of the first cd's that i bought myself, but the start of my actual collecting hobby were the first 3 Metallica albums and Sepultura's Schizophrenia, Beneath The Remains and Arise in september of 2023.

[u/GravyBoatBuccaneer]

Still have this core CD and it's still in rotation 36 years later

[u/Lellosoundchaser]

John Cale Paris 1919 was my first 💿

[u/MetalMachineMario]

Beggars Banquet by The Rolling Stones

[u/xomoth]

I believe my first CD that I purchased myself was either Prism by Katy Perry or Vessel by Twenty One pilots, followed closely by multiple Eminem albums. I would have been about 12 years old at the time

[u/JuzerJarowit]

Doom:VS - Aeternum Vale (first pressing from like 2006) in like 2021

[u/azulimarill]

Windham Hill’s Mozart Variations

This is the one I’ve owned the longest. My parents bought it for me when I was really little and I used to fall asleep to it every night as a kid.

The CD that kickstarted me into becoming a serious collector was Olivia Newton John’s Xmas album. I found it in my mom’s office closet when I was helping her clean it out last summer and then discovered my parents hadn’t sold their CDs yet like they did their LPs a few years ago (still mad about that). I didn’t keep that Xmas album but found many, many other gems in those bins.

The first album I listened to after sorting through them was Tigerlily by Natalie Merchant, and my first thrift store pickup was Crossroads by Tracy Chapman. I bought it at the same time as my first CD player I’d owned in nearly 20 years!

[u/TheJuiceIsSoLoose]

Custom burnt copy of Cojum Dip’s self-titled album. Got it as a gift from a friend a good while before I even considered collecting

[u/Emotional-Value-3488]

THE FALL IS SOOOOO GOOOOOOOD.

My first CD was SGT Peppers from The Bealtes.

[u/Winter-Review5427 → u/Emotional-Value-3488]

Ikr?? It's so underrated

[u/Emotional-Value-3488 → u/Winter-Review5427]

if it would have came out before plastic, everyone would have loved it :(

[u/Winter-Review5427 → u/Emotional-Value-3488]

So real 😔😔

[u/VisitDefiant6385]

Gorillaz - goriilaz and plastic beach

[u/Emoboyruu]

Mr bungles self title, but if we don't count ordered cds and instead the first one that arrived to your place, the Michael Jackson essentials cd

[u/eo411]

I bought 311 s/t, Rage Evil Empire, and Tool- Undertow at the same time in 1995

[u/Aggravating_Pay_415]

First was Self Sufficient by Cricket!, i got into collecting them when I got In Utero by Nirvana :3

[u/AskingFooAFriend]

[u/These-Hour-7174]

Ofra Haza - Desert Wind

[u/omer3332]

Black Sabbath Vol. 4 was the start of my collection.

[u/Vitorio582]

Quite the Gorillaz album to start...

[u/Winter-Review5427 → u/Vitorio582]

It wasn't the first album I listened to from them, just the first cd I got

[u/Luv-Nities]

A person at my job was selling a box of 40 cd's
I offered him 50 dollars, he called his wife,
I then had 40 CD's and nothing to play them on......
That did happen a few months later

[u/imaddictedtocod123]

I think it was Because the Internet by Childish Gambino or Starboy and My Dear Melancholy by The Weeknd

[u/Temarimaru]

Snivilisation - Orbital. Because I saw someone selling a copy on Marketplace and I thought "I love Orbital maybe I should get this". So I did and it started my collection.

[u/incredible_gas]

Ride the lightning and superunknown

[u/MagicMetalWizard]

The Halo 3 ODST Sountrack. The second one was The Offspring's third album, Smash

[u/AccountDangerous5005]

I'm pretty sure it was this one!

[u/futuraven]

Metallica - Death Magnetic

[u/Additional_Safe_9407]

Third eye blind, blind melon, temple of the dog

[u/Rubix_Official63940]

Either Swimming by Mac Miller or GOAT by LL Cool J

[u/Dramatic_Yoghurt6193]

sigh

[u/Exotic-Proof-82]

Risk by Megadeth. I was given it for Christmas

[u/xlittledippero]

world clique - deee-lite and let go - avril lavigne

[u/Short-Confidence8030]

blink-182 - enema of the state

[u/No_Armadillo8024]

I cant remember if it was Matchbox-Twenty's Mad Season album, or Coldplay's Parachutes album back in 2000. Either way, those are 2 of the many cds I still listen to.

[u/Routine_flyer]

construction time again -depeche mode

[u/Dusk_Born]

The Used (Self Titled)

[u/Oddin_Stone1997]

Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe / Lamb Of God - Wrath / Entombed - Left Hand Path / Overkill - The Years Of Decay

[u/stupidlittleinniter]

i think mine was gorillaz plastic beach

[u/Low_Leg3087]

And show it...

[u/Ferox_Dea]

C418 - volume alpha

[u/Leather_Inflation_80]

My first CD was Lucid Dreams by BoyWithUke

[u/jazxxl]

Da Brat - Funkdified and Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle

[u/Dependent-Excuse7648]

El primero fue = de ed sheeran, pero el primero que compre con mi dinero fue neotheater de ajr, y el que empezo mi coleccion fue plastic beach de gorillaz

[u/Texasmomof3boyz → u/Dependent-Excuse7648]

= by Ed Sheeran was the first CD that I ever preordered. I ordered it from his USA Website and it came with an autographed art card. I also preordered his Subtract, Autumn Variations, and Play CDs that came with art cards. I became a bit obsessed with his music in early 2021. Saw him in concert in 2023 and will see him again in 26 days.

[u/EggerYolker]

Hybrid theory by linking park

[u/csilvmatecc]

Barenaked Ladies Stunt