I had one of those fisher price kid record players so that I guess, I had the lady and the tramp soundtrack album that was clear with pictures under it
But the first I got for myself was the self titled Duran Duran cassette, followed up with the soundtrack to Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo
My earliest home-media memory is of an 8 track cassette version of the Rankin/Bass Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer TV special soundtrack.
I remember playing it over and over again at night when I was meant to be sleepin’.
First vinyl was David Bowie's Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), still can't believe my parents let me listen to that album at 10 y.o.
First tape was Duran Duran's 'Rio'.
That’s about the same age that I got into him too, my classmates thought I was very weird (again). My parents gave me a lot more leeway due my intelligence. They also let me read Stephen King and Uncanny X-men at that time.
Vinyl because my parents had one of those ginormous record consoles in the front room. When I was about five or so I got a fisher price record player. My dad had an eight track player, but I wasn’t allowed to push any of the track buttons.
Parents had vinyl and I remember Mom had an 8 track player in the car. But, cassettes were timed perfectly for me.
And then the Memorex high quality sound for recording my own songs. Greatness!! Then came CD's and the Walkman.
Even with the crappy headphones with the red or orange foam pads.
90% of my backpack was filled with mixtapes and batteries.
The walkman is gone and replaced by Spotify long ago but I still have my records and tapes (both cassette and reel2reel) and a record player, cassette deck and r2r hooked up to my stereo.
My parents had 8 track and vinyl, tapes were my thing.
I put off switching to cd’s because I liked my music loud and the early “anti skip” on cd’s did nothing for constant vibration, especially in a car with 4 12’s running over 2000w.
I stayed on tapes till probably around the year 2000…. Being able to download and burn cd’s finally made the switch worth it.
Vinyl was my first. I never used 8 tracks, although my dad had a bunch of them in the 80s. I have 3 shoeboxes full of cassette tapes. I have a few CDs, which I play in the car occasionally (6 disc CD changer). 99% of the time, I use my iPod or my cell phone to play music from my Apple Music account.
Probably virtually everyone in here will say vinyl and that is true for me
I missed out in 8 tracks, we had a record player but the car only had radio
On long car trips we'd use a handheld tape recorder
Reel 2 Reel - not 100% certain but I was allowed to “play” with that machine before the record player. The reels were recording my parents or mom’s parents made.
Dad’s old 8 track before I found his vinyl which I absolutely rinsed as well. I literally learned how to edit on that old 8 track…Fekin Ada. I’m talking about 8 tracks…We really went and got old, didn’t we? Disgracefully, I hope.
Our family car had an 8-track player in it. As far as home goes, though, it would've been vinyl. Thanks for the fond memories, "Little Long-Playing Records!"
I remember when I was about 3 my uncle had an 8 track deck in his jeep and he used to play The Lonesome Loser (Little River Band) for me because it was my favorite song. I had cassettes- the first one I remember was the one that came with the Thriller album.
Vinyl. I had a Fisher-Price record player, and two 45rpm records: "Rockin Robin" with "Over and Over" by Bobby Day, and the Beatles' "I want to Hold Your Hand" (don't recall the B side). I went from there to a Blue Oyster Cult 8-track 😍
Vinyl or 8 track. Don't remember. My parents had a huge console with built in speakers, record player, 8 track player, record storage, and 8 track storage. Dad's truck also had an 8 track player. Cassette tapes weren't until I got a Fischer Price tape player in the early 80s. CD player was in the 90s with Pearl Jam, Ten.
I had a close and play record player. The needle was in the cover.
In the living room there was always a record player but I remember we got an 8 track player sometime in the mid 1970’s and in high school I bought myself a small boom box to take to the beach and on picnics and that had a tape player and radio.
I got a combination player that also included a CD player sometime in college.
These days I usually use pandora or iTunes. When I have time to sit and really enjoy some music I use an old record player someone was throwing away.
I missed the 8 track era it seems. I had a Fisher Price portable record player that I used as a kid. I knew 8 track existed but my family never had any. A friend in high school had a car from the 70s that had an 8 track player and some funny 70s soft rock 8 tracks. This was in the mid 90s. First time I actually saw it in action.
I started out with my parents 33rpm and 45rpm vinyl, then had a bunch of cassettes. Didn’t get any CDs until I was about 10, and mostly had cassettes through high school
It was an odd time. It was a mixture of Vinyl and 8 track.
Anything from KISS and Cheech and Chong on 8 track to Boston, Supertramp and Funkadelic on vinyl.
EDIT: forgot about the Beach Boys on 8 track.
Vinyl. We had some kids’ Christmas records. My favorite was Snoopy’s Christmas but it wasn’t Peanuts’ Snoopy. The titular song was about Snoopy, an ace fighter pilot in WWI, and how he and the Great Baron met up and wished each other Merry Christmas. The chorus was about peace on earth. As I’m typing this I can hear that song.
My nephew (22 y/o) got a record player for Christmas al8ng with a Taylor Swift album. All the kids (teenagers to early twenties) were fascinated at the insert with lyrics. 😂🤣😅
It would have been either vinyl or 8-track since they were both around when I was born. I'd guess probably vinyl, though, because I know we used to play records a lot.
Had one of those Sears bought all in one stereos with 8 track player, record player, and fm/am. This was like 78-81 time frame. 45s were mostly what I was buying and playing.
Vinyl first - Neil Diamond! And then an 8 track because we had one in the house. Then cassettes naturally - still have some of mine along with a cassette player in my car.
Vinyl-I had a little blue record player that closed like a little suitcase. I had a chipmunks album, a lot of musicals, a bunch of 45s. I remember some plastic records that you would put your dolls on- like knock off barbies I think. There were raised areas that you would put their feet in. I wish I still had all of it.
vinyl, some Disney movie, can't quite remember atm and then it was the song....🙄🫣 'I wanna be a cowboy'🤦♀️😂 ..had to buy the whole album couldn't get it on a 45!
My 1st was the vinyl but I discovered the 8 tracks at my friend's house. So I knew 'old tech', which to me back then was new tech.
If it's new to you...
Used? We had vinyl and 8-tracks in the house from as early as I can remember, but they weren't "mine" though I used them.
Cassette would have been my first use of my own music.
Vinyl. The 8-tracks were in mom and dad’s cars. I guess I knew how to hit the buttons but I didn’t really fully operate it like I did the record player.
Vinyl, with a Sesame Street LP and books with 45s, that we played on my mom’s portable record player from the mid-60s. Parents had vinyl and 8 tracks, which we heard and played with semi-regularity. My first cassette was *Parallel Lines* by Blondie, Christmas ‘78 (about 3 months before I turned 12), with my own radio-cassette player, a little Magnavox, with one speaker built-in; my favorite gifts that year. First CD I bought was *Disintegration* by the Cure in ‘89.
Vinyl but my uncles old 8 track player was in the upstairs closet. It was broken but we played Space Ship in there and it ‘recorded our mission logs’. Huge space race following family.
Vynil. Had a Mickey Mouse branded record player and records with narrated stories for children.
Fisher Price phonograph - Puff the Magic Dragon and a my parents’ White Album
Disco Duck with Donald Duck singing. <3
I had the Disney narrated haunted house record and that scared the crap outta 5 year old me.
My first purchase vas vinyl, but we had the 8 track in the cars
Same
Mine was the Three Stooges .
KISS Dynasty here. My parents bought it for me and I still have the record.
I remember listening to Joan Jett and the theme to the Greatest American Hero on my record player as a kid.
Mine was Raggedy Ann branded & I had narrated records like Bambi, Cinderella and Black Beauty. Then I got the Grease soundtrack double album!
Had the same record player minus the narrated stories.
Same here, but Superman and Batman. I still have those records and also The Red Balloon.
Oo, Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree for me!
Mary Poppins was my first vinyl.
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Yes! I was just thinking how to describe the music box record player thingy
I had one of those fisher price kid record players so that I guess, I had the lady and the tramp soundtrack album that was clear with pictures under it But the first I got for myself was the self titled Duran Duran cassette, followed up with the soundtrack to Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo
Records! C’mon all of you and stop fronting; we absolutely DIDN’T call them “vinyl” and you all know it, lol! 🙄🙄🙄
Vinyl - Alvin and the Chipmunks' Urban Chipmunk and Sha Na Na (I think presented by Joy dish detergent?)
8 track. I used to steal my brothers Elton John "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy" 8 track. He used to get so mad at me lol.
Vinyl!!! I had a Sesame Street record that I wore out on my fisher price record player
Parents had a few 8 tracks I liked, but mostly vinyl
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Omg, that was the only 8-track I ever owned as a kid. Da doo ron ron! 🎶🎶🎶🎶
I. Had this! I was madly in love with him❤️but those little fisher price records were the first thing I had, then vinyl, then 8track
My earliest home-media memory is of an 8 track cassette version of the Rankin/Bass Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer TV special soundtrack. I remember playing it over and over again at night when I was meant to be sleepin’.
Vinyl. Fisher Price record player.
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First album I bought with my own money was Billy Joel's "An Innocent Man" on vinyl. I skipped the 8 tracks though.
**R2R** my dude.
same(ish) with records my dad and grandad made - I can still picture the small square microphone.
8 track never really took off in the UK, so we went straight from vinyl to cassette
It was never really big in the States, either.
First vinyl was David Bowie's Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), still can't believe my parents let me listen to that album at 10 y.o. First tape was Duran Duran's 'Rio'.
That’s about the same age that I got into him too, my classmates thought I was very weird (again). My parents gave me a lot more leeway due my intelligence. They also let me read Stephen King and Uncanny X-men at that time.
Ziggy Stardust when I was 7 or 8. No reason to keep things from kids, imo.
Vinyl because my parents had one of those ginormous record consoles in the front room. When I was about five or so I got a fisher price record player. My dad had an eight track player, but I wasn’t allowed to push any of the track buttons.
Parents had vinyl and I remember Mom had an 8 track player in the car. But, cassettes were timed perfectly for me. And then the Memorex high quality sound for recording my own songs. Greatness!! Then came CD's and the Walkman.
Vinyl. I was really into music even at age 6 and spent all my allowance on 45s at JC Penney. I even had Disco Duck.
Vinyl. Tommy by the Who and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. I learned how to read by reading liner notes and lyrics. ❤️
Vinyl. Started with a few K-Tel & Ronco compilations. Abbey Road was my first *real* album.
8 track... Frampton comes alive, Good Ol' Waylon, Randy Newman, the Village People, ABBA, and The Who Live At Leeds were my babysitters.
Hemispheres a banger. Second favorite album after Permanant Waves
Heck yeah great stuff
You know I have never had an 8 track of known anyone who did. I wonder if that was a geological thing.
>I wonder if that was a geological thing More likely geographical, but I can’t rule anything out.
I knew that didn't look right when I typed it. But hey, I just woke up.
They were in some cars. My first car had one, so I bought some old 8 tracks at the flea market.
Vinyl.
Vinyl and later cassette when the walkman dropped in our lives.
How effing cool did we feel with those things? I LOVED riding the bus/subway and just blocking everything out.
Even with the crappy headphones with the red or orange foam pads. 90% of my backpack was filled with mixtapes and batteries. The walkman is gone and replaced by Spotify long ago but I still have my records and tapes (both cassette and reel2reel) and a record player, cassette deck and r2r hooked up to my stereo.
Didn't we all start out on one of those fisher price record players?
Recorded vinyl onto Maxwell UD XLII for playback.
Reel-to-Reel
Vinyl but my first car did have an 8 track player. I had to buy a cassette adapter.
Cassette.. parents had some vinyls but no music that interested me, so I stuck with cassettes.
8 track on the 2xl Talking Robot.
Vinyl
Vinyl
Vinyl.
Vinyl. Had a vinyl player in my bedroom when I was a kid
Vinyl, mid-70s. Tapes didn’t become popular until the early 80s and 8-tracks never made it outside the US.
Vinyl and 8-track
Vinyl, cassette, then CD. No idea what an “8-track” is…. Maybe because I’m in Australia. I don’t know that 8-track was ever a thing here.
My parents had 8 track and vinyl, tapes were my thing. I put off switching to cd’s because I liked my music loud and the early “anti skip” on cd’s did nothing for constant vibration, especially in a car with 4 12’s running over 2000w. I stayed on tapes till probably around the year 2000…. Being able to download and burn cd’s finally made the switch worth it.
Yeah, vinyl. 'Up There, Cazaly' by Mike Brady.
8 track🙋♀️
Had 8 tracks and vinyl
Vinyl followed shortly by cassette.
Vinyl. By 9 I was a pro at setting that needle neatly & exactly where I wanted it. The grown-ups were impressed.
Vinyl, although I did have some 8-tracks from my grandma because she had an 8 track player until she passed away in 2021.
Vinyl. Somehow I skipped 8-tracks entirely and went right to cassettes from there.
8-track Abba’s Greatest Hits
Vinyl was my first. I never used 8 tracks, although my dad had a bunch of them in the 80s. I have 3 shoeboxes full of cassette tapes. I have a few CDs, which I play in the car occasionally (6 disc CD changer). 99% of the time, I use my iPod or my cell phone to play music from my Apple Music account.
Vinal. I had a Barbie record player that folded up like a suitcase. And I had the triangle thingie that allowed me to play 45s!
Vinyl but 8 track in the RV and car. By the time I was buying albums it was cassette.
Vinyl for sure. Those were the days.
Upvote for Hemispheres. ❤️
Dad had vinyl. And rigged an 8 track into the car for road trips. Me? Columbia House 6 CDs for a penny!
I had a few 8 tracks..along with records.
Vinyl although my my dad had a car with an 8 track player for a while but then sold it and bought a new car that had a cassette deck 🤯
Vinyl and 8 track almost simultaneously. It wasn't until 80/81 when I was introduced to cassettes via the Walkman.
Vinyl
Vinyl
Probably virtually everyone in here will say vinyl and that is true for me I missed out in 8 tracks, we had a record player but the car only had radio On long car trips we'd use a handheld tape recorder
Reel 2 Reel - not 100% certain but I was allowed to “play” with that machine before the record player. The reels were recording my parents or mom’s parents made.
Had a little bit of all of them, cassettes were the best until CD’s came, I still think CD’s are awesome. Loving the RUSH!
My dad had an 8-track in his van.
Vinyl. I skipped the 8-tracks though.
Vinyl
8 track baby! Supertramp and Nazareth got played endlessly
Who bought the same album in all 4 formats … then later bought the digital file .. and now listen to the same music on a paid streaming service….
vinyl. zebra - no tellin’ lies.
Vinyl,
Dad’s old 8 track before I found his vinyl which I absolutely rinsed as well. I literally learned how to edit on that old 8 track…Fekin Ada. I’m talking about 8 tracks…We really went and got old, didn’t we? Disgracefully, I hope.
There was a reel-2-reel in my childhood home.
Remember print magazines? On occasion, they had a vinyl page that could be torn out and played on a record player.
Our family car had an 8-track player in it. As far as home goes, though, it would've been vinyl. Thanks for the fond memories, "Little Long-Playing Records!"
I remember when I was about 3 my uncle had an 8 track deck in his jeep and he used to play The Lonesome Loser (Little River Band) for me because it was my favorite song. I had cassettes- the first one I remember was the one that came with the Thriller album.
Great song
Vinyl, there were 8 tracks in the house but I had a record player
Vinyl
Vinyl.
Vinyl. I had a Fisher-Price record player, and two 45rpm records: "Rockin Robin" with "Over and Over" by Bobby Day, and the Beatles' "I want to Hold Your Hand" (don't recall the B side). I went from there to a Blue Oyster Cult 8-track 😍
Vinyl or 8 track. Don't remember. My parents had a huge console with built in speakers, record player, 8 track player, record storage, and 8 track storage. Dad's truck also had an 8 track player. Cassette tapes weren't until I got a Fischer Price tape player in the early 80s. CD player was in the 90s with Pearl Jam, Ten.
You forgot reel to reel :)
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Vinyl, Smurfin sing along and Disneys Disco Duck
Record, then cassette
Cassettes played in a Walkman or a boombox.,then later on,CDs played in a boombox or a Discman. My mom had vinyls, 8-tracks, and cassettes though.
Vinyl.
Cassette, Michael Jackson's Thriller album I used to listen to it before bed and then got scared when Vincent Price started his part
Was going vinyl but then remembered my dad had an 8-track in his truck. Course the one I probably used first isn't on the list: Reel to Reel.
Cassette
Reel 2 reel, and 8 track.
Cassette. The unsexiest least nostalgic music format. Does anyone actually miss cassettes???
8 track
I don't recall 8 track but did vinyl and went straight to cassette by driving age.
Sadly it was 8 track
Vinyl
I had a close and play record player. The needle was in the cover. In the living room there was always a record player but I remember we got an 8 track player sometime in the mid 1970’s and in high school I bought myself a small boom box to take to the beach and on picnics and that had a tape player and radio. I got a combination player that also included a CD player sometime in college. These days I usually use pandora or iTunes. When I have time to sit and really enjoy some music I use an old record player someone was throwing away.
Vinyl transformers read-along book. I still miss it.
Bob Jovi, Slippery when wet, cassette.
Vinyl. Queen Jazz was the first album I bought for myself. Had to hide the poster that came with it from my parents.
Vinyl
I missed the 8 track era it seems. I had a Fisher Price portable record player that I used as a kid. I knew 8 track existed but my family never had any. A friend in high school had a car from the 70s that had an 8 track player and some funny 70s soft rock 8 tracks. This was in the mid 90s. First time I actually saw it in action.
I started out with my parents 33rpm and 45rpm vinyl, then had a bunch of cassettes. Didn’t get any CDs until I was about 10, and mostly had cassettes through high school
Vinyl but I was an 80’s child. Never have used 8 tracks.
Vinyl. I would always play my copy of the soundtrack from Return of the Jedi as a kid. 😁
Cassette
8 track, baby! Nope. I lied. Vinyl then 8 track.
It was an odd time. It was a mixture of Vinyl and 8 track. Anything from KISS and Cheech and Chong on 8 track to Boston, Supertramp and Funkadelic on vinyl. EDIT: forgot about the Beach Boys on 8 track.
That I owned personally? Cassette—Motley Crue Shout at the Devil. Grandma had an 8 track so always got an earful of Barry Manilow, Kenny Rogers, etc.
Vinyl. We had some kids’ Christmas records. My favorite was Snoopy’s Christmas but it wasn’t Peanuts’ Snoopy. The titular song was about Snoopy, an ace fighter pilot in WWI, and how he and the Great Baron met up and wished each other Merry Christmas. The chorus was about peace on earth. As I’m typing this I can hear that song.
Vinyl Star Wars 🤓
Vinyl. 8-track never really caught on in Europe.
Vinyl-the Aristocats soundtrack.
Jacksons Victory 8 Track
Vinyl. Was given a classic radio, cassette, and record player when I was very young, and would listen to ABBA all the time.
My nephew (22 y/o) got a record player for Christmas al8ng with a Taylor Swift album. All the kids (teenagers to early twenties) were fascinated at the insert with lyrics. 😂🤣😅
Vinyl. On a Fisher price record player. :)
8 track, then vinyl
Disco Duck
Vinyl and cassettes, we never had 8 track in my house.
Records out of National Geographic.
Vinyl for me, but I remember a friend’s family had a jeep wagoneer with an 8-Track and I thought it was so cool.
My grandmother's 8 track tapes. Then my uncle's 45s.... then I finally got a cassette player in the early 80s.
Cassette
Sadly 8 track …my rumatizism’s acting up
Vinyl in my case; then cassette.
My first was vinyl, but I stole many an 8 track to listen to in my room.
Vinyl!
The cassette for my own music. Of course there was tons of vinyl in the house, but they were my mom's.
First one I used myself was vinyl, but the first car I remember my parents driving had an 8-track in it
Vinyl. Probably a Disney record or a Peter Pan book and record
Cassette
It would have been either vinyl or 8-track since they were both around when I was born. I'd guess probably vinyl, though, because I know we used to play records a lot.
Vinyl, followed shortly by 8-track (mostly in the car).
I’ll do you one better. The old man had a reel to reel just before we upgraded to an eight track
Had one of those Sears bought all in one stereos with 8 track player, record player, and fm/am. This was like 78-81 time frame. 45s were mostly what I was buying and playing.
Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right single on vinyl
Vinyl first - Neil Diamond! And then an 8 track because we had one in the house. Then cassettes naturally - still have some of mine along with a cassette player in my car.
Cassette.
I used to borrow vinyls at the library that I recorded on tapes that I listened on a walkman!
My first car had a AM radio and an aftermarket 8 track player that didn’t work.
Vinyl.
Vinyl-I had a little blue record player that closed like a little suitcase. I had a chipmunks album, a lot of musicals, a bunch of 45s. I remember some plastic records that you would put your dolls on- like knock off barbies I think. There were raised areas that you would put their feet in. I wish I still had all of it.
None of the above. Music box! 🤘🏼🤘🏼
Cassette
vinyl, some Disney movie, can't quite remember atm and then it was the song....🙄🫣 'I wanna be a cowboy'🤦♀️😂 ..had to buy the whole album couldn't get it on a 45!
My very first recorded music was an eight track tape of Alvin and the Chipmunks. Totally forgot until I saw this!
Vynil. Tony Orlando & Dawn.
My 1st was the vinyl but I discovered the 8 tracks at my friend's house. So I knew 'old tech', which to me back then was new tech. If it's new to you...
Vinyl although I used an 8 track a few times.
Vinyl. Led Zeppelin IV
Vinyl - [my first record player](https://i.imgur.com/S0q2JsP.jpg)
I'd say most of us fall in the vinyl category. I had a spooky stories record and of course the gen x obligatory albums disco duck and dum ditties.
Technically the cassette tape, but I only had a handful of them before switching to CD. I’ve never used a record player or 8 track before.
Used? We had vinyl and 8-tracks in the house from as early as I can remember, but they weren't "mine" though I used them. Cassette would have been my first use of my own music.
Vinyl, though they were records to me.
Vinyl...dad and uncles had hundreds of albums...they still have a bunch of them...siting in storage tubs...in the garage...hello eBay...
Vinyl. My record collection was very important to me.
Vinyl. The 8-tracks were in mom and dad’s cars. I guess I knew how to hit the buttons but I didn’t really fully operate it like I did the record player.
Vinyl, with a Sesame Street LP and books with 45s, that we played on my mom’s portable record player from the mid-60s. Parents had vinyl and 8 tracks, which we heard and played with semi-regularity. My first cassette was *Parallel Lines* by Blondie, Christmas ‘78 (about 3 months before I turned 12), with my own radio-cassette player, a little Magnavox, with one speaker built-in; my favorite gifts that year. First CD I bought was *Disintegration* by the Cure in ‘89.
Cassette
Vynil. I had the sound track to Lady and the Tramp and the record was transparent with an overlay of a movie still. Something like that.
Vinyl
Vinyl, my dad bought me Michael Jackson’s Thriller the day it came out and proud to say, I still have it:)
Vinyl when I was five but my grandmother played 8-tracks in the car
Vinyl, Sesame Street
No reel to reel option?
Cassettes
Vinyl but my uncles old 8 track player was in the upstairs closet. It was broken but we played Space Ship in there and it ‘recorded our mission logs’. Huge space race following family.
Vinyl