how did they end up in your music collection?

[harryupbabble]

hertbreaker - led zeplelin
heard it being played really loud walking by someone's car.
didnt know anything about the band.
eventually, i bought all their studio and live cds, secondhand.
eventually, i traded them for bauhaus and killing joke cds, etc.
i bought the live dvd and kept it to this day.

come as you are - nirvana
heard it being played really loud walking by someone's car.
didnt know anything about the band.
i bought their nevermind and bleach cds, secondhand.
i don'thave them anymore.
but i do still have mp3s.

low rider - war
heard it in a cheech and chong movie.
i might have heard cinco de mayo and summer before.
didn't know it was the same band doing those 3 songs.
i might have bought their greatest hits cd, but i'm not sure.

dark side of the moon - pink floyd
guy i used to hang around with had it, played it all the time.
i bought my own copy and played it all the time too.

dreams - fleetwood mac
i used to hear it a lot on fm radio, am radio too maybe.
it grew on me. so i bought the rumours cd, secondhand.
bought the cd that had rhiannon and landslide too.

[vurt]

nicked most of em from hmv and virgin back in the day....


not true, that was t-shirts.

errr, "song" - heard it, liked it, bought it.

[Bombadil]

Let It Be was my first purchased LP. I was 12, and got 10 bucks for graduating grade 6. It was the boxed version with the flimsy picture book of the sessions.

Two years earlier...my family was still together, somewhat, we were in our house in the burbs, my brother was still living with us. I was home from school for lunch and just going out the door to get back, when my brother called me into his room, shoved his headphones at me and said "listen to this! It's the new Beatles album!" He was 20, just home from the army. So, he plays Let It Be for me, and as I started to take the headphones off Billy Preston's organ and George's solo kicked in and blew my head off.
That is one of my few good memories of said fuckhead. Over 51 years ago, now.
My musical tastes were/are dictated by the echoes of a past wherein I worshipped my older brother, even though he turned into a right fuckhead and we were estranged when he got older. Too late. I'll love the music that I heard playing in his bedroom beside mine, forever.

[jancivil]

I remember Court of the Crimson King from the 8th grade, someone I knew had an older brother who was a 'head'.
Particularly gassed by 21st C. Schizoid Man, incredible. My mother bought it for me for Xmas, I guess 1970.
I acquired subsequent Crimson albums as they came out, I do remember getting Red in like '75.

[Old Nick]

Bought Sgt Pepper in '67, coz it was The Beatles.
2nd Album was Days Of Future Past, coz I liked Nights In White Satin (I had the single) and coz I liked the cover.
I think my 3rd album was Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - because I liked See Emily Play.
Next 2 years saw albums from The Nice, King Crimson, more Moody Blues, more Beatles... And the Bee Gees.