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What was the first CD you bought? Do you still use them or are they collecting dust in a black Ikea CD rack that took two hours to assemble?
October 1 - #OnThisDay in 1982, Sony released the world’s first CD player in Japan
Compact Discs were invented through a partnership between Sony & Philips. Sony released the CDP-101 CD player in Japan earlier than the rest of the world as Philips couldn’t meet the agreed-upon launch date. Six months later, Philips released their own CD100 CD player
@BillyBones
I am almost certain it was 1987, and my first two were Abbey Road (which had just been released on CD) and Moving Pictures. Still have them, along with the eventual collection of over 2500 - packed away safe and dry.
@MPCavalier It's funny you mention Abbey Road just being released. I remember going to Penny Lane Records in Liverpool in 1987, really pleased that I had a CD player. I asked for Thin Lizzy's "Thunder & Lightning" CD and was told "They haven't got anything out on CD" 🤣
@BillyBones
Right - that was a big challenge back then yeah? There were a few places in NY that had, or could get, pretty much anything. I ended buying a lot of Japanese imports just to have them on CD. Rookie mistakes because so many of them were bootlegs, sourced from clean vinyl. Listen, live, and learn!
@MPCavalier Yep, in those early days it was really just new releases that you could buy on CD, plus some of the 'biggies' like The Beatles, of course.
Strange what we put up with and still thought it was cool though, isn't it?
@BillyBones
Exactly - and then we bought them again, and again! Remastered! Deluxe Edition! 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe! Boxed Set! When the kids came along I had to re-think my music budget. But at one point I said "how many copies of Dark Side of the Moon does a person really need?" Hell, I can't hear the sonic improvements, anyway! I am full digital now, and I love it. My kids? Vinyl junkies.
@MPCavalier Yep, I went through a phase once more CDs came out of trying to have a CD copy of every album I owned.
I loved the convenience and being able to skip tracks, but to this day I still miss that warm crackle and little 'click' of setting the stylus down on vinyl ❤️
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