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Music-wise, what was the first 45, single or download you bought?
Submitted by Paddy Melt Wagon.
First of all, it's a little weird to think that some people may have had their first real experience purchasing music by buying a song off of iTunes or something. It makes me feel a little old...I still recall my first little Fisher-Price (it may or may not have actually been Fisher-Price, but as they basically provided all childhood toys between 1979 and 1987, I'm willing to bet it was) record player that played plastic records of such classics as "Baby Beluga" and "Puff the Magic Dragon." I also remember when they didn't have new-fangled "cars" and my friends and I caught rides to school on the unicycle of a mustachioed stranger and how we marveled at the advent of electricity.
And while I'm on this discussion of age, my 13-year old sister often makes me feel really ancient. The other day, we were chatting via Instant Messenger (it's sort of like a telegraph without the tapping) and she said that her new computer was "tight." Now, I'm not actually 95 years old and I'm more than aware of today's lingo. However, I pretended that I didn't know what this meant, just for funsies. My sister then attempted to explain it to me and how kids her age use slang. And although I know she was trying to be helpful, in a way, she was also condescending by demonstrating how "uncool" I am. This made me feel old. Of course, I also realize that a) I was kidding in the first place and do know all of today's slang, b) I'm only 25, which is actually a far better age to be than 13, c) that I usually tend to go out of my way not to be "cool" (which, for me, means "trendy"), and d) kids today are stupid. So really, my decrepit feelings were unfounded and I bristled at nothing in particular. But still...damn hooligan kids....
Anyway...back in my early days of buying music (which probably started when I was around 9 or so), I exclusively bought soundtracks. I believe my very first cassette tape (which was bought specifically for me as opposed to when I would take tapes from my parents) was the Batman soundtrack. However, it was unfortunately the Prince version of the Batman soundtrack when I really wanted the Danny Elfman version with the score. So there I was, listening to such classics as Batdance and Partyman, wondering when the score would start...alas, it never did. But I did learn that trust makes you a real lover and that it's not that kind of party (gettin' higher tonight), which were important childhood lessons.
Eventually, I did get the Danny Elfman score (following a decent report card, from the music store near Beasley's in the Southgate Mall...ah, Beasley's), which was astonishingly great (and still is...just like Beasley's). And in terms of things I bought myself...that I can't remember. It may have been the Danny Elfman score for Batman again (on CD this time), which was the first CD I owned. It may also have been the Batman Returns or Edward Scissorhands score CDs...they were all purchased around the same time (summer 1992). And really, I didn't set out to buy any CD that was song-based (as opposed to score-based) until summer 1996 when I purchased the Mission: Impossible soundtrack (primarily for "Dreams" by The Cranberries)...which I then traded with someone for the score album when I quickly tired of the songs (which, yes, was also by Danny Elfman).
