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38 minutes ago, BlutAusNerd said:

I've hocked a few albums that I don't listen to anymore, but not much overall. I can't imagine getting back into these ones I let go of, but maybe I'll prove myself wrong in ten years...

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My Lunar Strain/Subterranean CD might get the axe. Literally, I might hit it with an axe. :)

In general, though, I guess I've been buying music for about 25 years, and I've lost and regained interest in nearly everything I've owned, enough to make me realize that I just can't tell when the mood will strike. It's all worth keeping around if only for that. I can't imagine having the money to rebuild my collection. I'm really happy that my Swans CDs have survived various moves, thefts, and losses, at least...

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Can't remember my first. 

Think I had a bunch of copied tapes to start off with.

I remember renting Among The Living from the library very early on, that could have been the first original tape I had in my possession.

And I have a very vivid memory of buying Rust In Peace on tape when it came out, guess that could have been the first one I actually bought.

When I was 11 (in 1991) I bought Blessed Are The Sick, and then proceeded to bury it in the back garden out of Catholic guilt. True story. 

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10 minutes ago, Thrashman said:

Can't remember my first. 

Think I had a bunch of copied tapes to start off with.

I remember renting Among The Living from the library very early on, that could have been the first original tape I had in my possession.

And I have a very vivid memory of buying Rust In Peace on tape when it came out, guess that could have been the first one I actually bought.

When I was 11 (in 1991) I bought Blessed Are The Sick, and then proceeded to bury it in the back garden out of Catholic guilt. True story. 

Haha..you buried it! I love that..did you feel any better?..:P

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Yeah, I rented some great albums from that library :)

You could order tapes, so guess I wasn't the first or even second metal kid to take advantage of that.

Remember going in there a few years later and they were selling loads of those albums for 50p or something silly, was actually able to buy that copy of Among The Living as I recall.

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I think the first album I bought with my own money was... Kill Em All. That or Ride The Lightning. Then Eventually I got Master of Puppets, Rust in Peace, Killing is my Business, Peace Sells, and on and on. I have all pre-load Metallica, and for Megadeth I have cryptic writings and earlier. I think my next will be alot of Maiden, Anthrax, Slayer, Exodus, King Diamond, Diamond Head... and Nuclear Assault, possibly Gojira. And... alot of other bands on my list. Fun Fun.

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I think the first album I bought with my own money was... Kill Em All. That or Ride The Lightning. Then Eventually I got Master of Puppets, Rust in Peace, Killing is my Business, Peace Sells, and on and on. I have all pre-load Metallica, and for Megadeth I have cryptic writings and earlier. I think my next will be alot of Maiden, Anthrax, Slayer, Exodus, King Diamond, Diamond Head... and Nuclear Assault, possibly Gojira. And... alot of other bands on my list. Fun Fun.

Interested to understand what lead you to buy those albums at the time (I imagine this was not in 1983.....).

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Well I hope it wasn't 1983, considering I was born in 1997. Shitty jokes aside, I've been listening to Metallica and Megadeth for as long as I can remember; that's what my dad has always listened to. I bought those albums a couple years ago when I really really started to get into metal and figure out what it was all about. About the time I decided Motley Crue and Poison and such weren't my style. I just can't get into the new stuff (being death/black/doom/etc) a whole lot, maybe a couple bands if I put in some effort to listen to find and listen to them but I'm more interested in the old school thrash right now. (Also when I say that a couple years ago I got into metal; I've always loved heavy metal but I only had a few Metallica songs from each album (except for St Anger, aint got that one) and I only had Rust in Peace and Countdown to Extinction but even then I really didn't listen to much past sweating bullets and didn't listen to Rust at all until a couple years ago. I don't know it's kinda weird, but now I can safely say I am a metalhead and I fucking love it.)

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I go back to tape days as well, but I really can't remember the very first 'metal' album I ever got. 

I remember when I was 10 in 1990 listening to Motley Crue's 'Dr Feelgood', which isn't exactly extreme metal, but certainly them with Guns n Roses and Skid Row had a huge impact on my future music exploration.

I think Metallica's 'Black Album', Megadeth's 'Countdown to Extinction' - both around 1992 for me, were probably the first of what you would call metal. Around 1992/1993 there was a lot of tape trading going on at my school, with most of the gateway bands, Iron Maiden etc. 

That's where this glorious journey began. 

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