The first record I bought was Ray Charles: A Man and His Soul, monophonic double LP.   I thought it was a wonderful thing to own, although it was an odd thing to buy because I didn't have a record player. It stayed carefully packed away except to go to parties with me - if the host owned a record player.

About 5 years later I bought a second record, Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water LP on the first day it was released. I spent the grocery money on it, and lived on beans and rice for weeks after that. It was another odd thing to buy since I still didn't have a record player, but Simon and Garfunkel started going to parties with me and Ray Charles and that was fun.

Another 5 or 6 years passed before I got a real job and bought a record player. That, of course, was another odd thing to buy since I only had 2 records.
- Phil