What Was The First Album You Bought?

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by CosmicPal

Bugeater...that's too funny.

It's funny how you mention the desire to tape the songs from the albums because that was my first job ever- making tapes for my friends. They'd come over and see all my albums and say, "Oh man, can you make me a tape?"

I made them buy the blank cassettes and they'd give me $10 for each tape I recorded. It took HOURS! Gawwddamn...having to sit there, pull out the album, set it down on the turntable, set the needle right before the song starts, then lean over and hit the Record button, and then hit Play on the record player.

Now, I can download a hundred complete albums before I ever finished taping a single song. And to think I only did that for $10/tape.

Shit, I never even got to the part about what I had to go through before I had the money to buy records. For a good part of my childhood I made my mix tapes from sitting by the radio for hours with the tape deck set on pause/record waiting for the songs I wanted...it would literally take me days to complete one tape.

And of course the first part of the song was always cut off even though I'd be sitting there with my finger on the pause button every time a new song was about to start. And oh man did it piss me off when the DJ would talk into the song, I'd be screaming SHUT THE **** UP SO I CAN START RECORDING ALREADY.