i just had this convo in email yesterday

What was the first CD (or record or cassette) you ever purchased? Write about the way that particular album made you feel then. Write about how it makes you feel now. You can post your response (500 words or fewer) here

from beachbum- Cheap trick dream police was first cassette i bought on my own. Slayer show no mercy was first album.

My reply:
I don't remember 1st music I bought myself but i remember my grandfather gave me a walkman and a foreigner tape as part of my graduation present from h.s. (and a lionel richie one but i don't like admitting that. he didn't know what was what at the time so just asked the clerk what was popular)

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how it made me feel.. happy and cool with the walkman. i was the shit. Made me see my grandfather as being coolER than he already was just for getting foreigner.
(i even listened to lionel richie some to..shhh dont tell anyone)

How it makes me feel today.. I'ts bittersweet and nostalgic. I'd no idea the song dirty white boy would ever mean so much to me as it does today. I still enjoy the rest of double vision and own the cd somewhere or did.. i think i gave it to my daughter when i moved.(i know it was burned on my pc.) However I don't intentionally listen to Lionel Richie these days :P