Everyone’s got a first record. Some first records are unfathomably cool, others are crushingly embarrassing, and one or two are made up by unfathomably cool people who do not wish to be crushingly embarrassed by the truth.
So we ask you, dear listener, what was the first record you ever bought? And we mean with your own money – it doesn’t count if it was bought for you, or if you found it, or if it already belonged to your parents / sibling / friend etc.
If you’re an average 6 Music listener, we work out that the chances are you will have bought said first record in a record store. And it just so happens that this weekend sees the 9th annual Record Store Day, when independent record stores welcome customers old and new onto their premises, promising new goodies and classic gems.
Record Store Day is now a firm fixture on most music lovers’ calendars. A time for artists to release exclusive material and for vinyl to continue it’s rise in popularity.
But of course you might not have bought your first record on vinyl (I did, it was C+C Music Factory’s ‘Things That Make You Go Hmmm’. Unfathomably cool, huh?). You may have bought it on cassette single, CD, minidisc, or you could’ve downloaded it.
Whichever way you bought it, Tom Robinson wants to know the artist & track, but more importantly the story behind it.
You pick the music, so get your first record-inspired suggestions to Tom via the hashtag #FirstRecord6Music to help create a playlist. Comment on the Now Playing Facebook page, here on the blog, email [email protected] or drag tracks onto our Spotify and Rdio playlists.
