PIF: Semi-Big Bunch O' Blades

[Gazzer]

Hello friends --

Having fiddled around with blade sampling for some months now, I'm declaring myself an Astra SP adherent and am locking in on them to spend the next long while messing around with non-blade variables.

So let's move some of these other guys on, shall we?

This PIF includes the following blade pile -- some in unopened packs, some in opened packs, and a few as loose (but wrapped) blades:

- 7 AM Hi Platinum Durablade (4)
- Astra Superior Platinum (5)
- Astra Superior Stainless (3)
- Crystal (5)
- Derby (10)
- Dorco ST-300 (9)
- Dorco ST-301 (9)
- Feather Yellow (10)
- Polsilver Super Iridium (4)
- Shark Super Chrome (4)
- Shark Super Stainless (4)
- Wilkinson Sword (3)

And, just to be sporting, let's toss in a new Palmolive Shave Stick (Germany).

This PIF owes a debt to Joshua1970 and his recent, landmark Frank Zappa Haiku PIF, through which some of these blades made their way to me. So let's keep the music theme going...


THE RULES

Open worldwide, anywhere I can post it. To be "in," please do two things:

1. Reply to this post with "I'm in."

2. Then, share something about the earliest music purchase you made with your own money, whether that was an album, a 45, a cassette, an 8-track, a wax cylinder, an MP3 download, or whichever format was germane to your day. I recognize that for some of you this may not be something in which will you currently take great pride but, alas, such is the condition of the PIF. You're on your honor to not upgrade your past for the sake of B&B appearances. You can simply name it or, if you like, regale us with as much backstory as you'd like.
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For example. Mine was the Talking Heads '77 LP. I was 10, but I had the benefit at the time of having two college-age brothers who increased my hipster cred by virtue of their unenthusiastic and involuntary association with their young and irritating brother. I remember that my first 45 was "Little Willy" by The Sweet, purchased on my behalf some years earlier by my mother at Woolworth's as a reward for bravery at the dentist. But the Talking Heads record was the first one I bought with my own money.

So, that's it for conditions. I'll pick the lucky winner from among qualifying entrants by random draw sometime during the day here on Sat., Nov. 24.

GOOD LUCK. And (of course the real reason for doing this) a big cheers to everyone here within this cool forum from whom I've learned a ton.



-- Gazzer

 

[sk0ttomann]

I'm in! My first purchase was TLC's CrazySexyCool cd.... I was just a kid, but I thought they were pretty hot in the "waterfalls" video... Lol I haven't listened to that since.. Two weeks after I bought it!

 

[RandomHero]

I'm in.

Purchased a cassette of Green Day: Dookie , listened to it so much i stretched it out. I still to this day, have a copy of the cd in my car, and on my mp3 player.

 

[one cut]

I'm in, can't really remember my earliest music purchase, would have been a LP ( that is long play record for you young folks out there )
and It would have been something awful. most likely



to this day all my Friends say I have the worst taste in music ever. EVER !

 

[Amzimbo]

I'm in. "Kind of a Drag," by the Buckinghams on 45. Back about '65 or '66 IRC.

 

[Toonr]

I'm in

My first record purchase was actually 2 albums that I still like listening to : Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here and Queen, Night at the Opera

 

[mattdenicola]

I'm in.

My first music purchase was the freshly released Pearl Jam Vitology CD - complete with that kickass jacket and textured cover. I think the disc was even black. It was awesome. The first thing I did when I got home was listen to it all the way through all while copying it to a tape. Funny how I can rip an entire disc now in a minute or so, and never have to listen to a sound.

Turns out to retrospectively be my least favorite Pearl Jam album, but I still have the disc. I play it probably once or twice a year.



Great PIF. Great thread.

 

[DerStadtschutz]

I'm in.

My first music purchase would have been one of those Twisted Christmas albums full of funny parodies of Christmas music. I still listen to that stuff today, as I can't stand Christmas music, and replacing the original lyrics with the ones from the parodies while I'm out in public being forced to listen to the music makes it a bit more tolerable.

 

[joamo]

I'm in.

My first purchase was an 8 track of "Gord's Gold" for "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."

 

[barnstormer]

I'm In! Mine was an Alan Jackson CD. My friend said I had to get it because it was great. I think there was one good song on the whole thing.

 

[MajorMoran]

I'm in. A LP by the Supremes.

 

[mikelz777]

I'm in.

Reading the entries so far makes me feel kinda old! My first music purchase was a 45 of "Spanish Flea" by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. I was a pre-teen and I'm pretty sure I was influenced by hearing it on The Dating Game.

 

[cameraflier]

Michael Jackson: Thriller.

I'm in.

 

[Planbee]

I'm in.

A 45 of "Detroit Rock City" ("Beth" was the B-side - who knew that would be the hit?). Bought the 45 because it was only a buck, compared to $6 for Destroyer, and when you're 10 years old and it's 1976, that's a lot of money.

That really set me on a whole arc of "drive your parents crazy" music. I remember, even at that young age, wondering if this would one day be considered "old people music", the same way Porter Wagoner was considered by me back then.

Derek

 

[jarhoops]

I'm in.

My first music purchase was through a music club, I believe BMG. I got my first 4 CDs free and they were: The Bodyguard Soundtrack, The Aladdin soundtrack, Jon Secada and Boyz II Men. Wow, glad things have changed over the last couple of decades...

 

[Acmemfg]

I'm in..

First music purchased with my own hard cash was a 45 of The Beatles "I Want to Hold Your Hand"

First music I ever got was for Christmas (along with a Firestone record player): 45 of Carl Perkins "Blue Suede Shoes"

 

[jansob]

I'm in.

CW McCall's Greatest Hits on cassette.....it had "Convoy" on it, but I still love the song "Wolf Creek Pass".


Wish I could say it was something cool and forward-looking.

 

[RailroadMan]

I would love to be in, but I can't remember what MY first music purchase was. I know my first CD in 7th grade was Rap's Biggest Hits, a Rhino compilation. That was when I started making the transition, but as far as my own money, I don't know. I am an only child, and my dad is a music person, as am I. He had 1000's of LPs and over 100 reel to reel tapes we listened to when I was growing up, so I owned a lot of music (still do) that he bought. It was one of my first ADs. Great PIF, sorry I can't enter, but the lines of monetary responsibility for the incoming audio deliciousness are blurred for me. I never really had a job (or allowance) until I was 16, so it may have been either a Biohazard album, Ministry album, or the Judgement Night soundtrack. I do remember getting for Christmas when I was around 5 a Sony jambox, Ray Parker Jr.'s Greatest Hits, and the Oak Ridge Boys Greatest Hits.

 

[SIG9]

It's hard to remember that far back. For sure it would have been a cassette tape. It would have been either Rush, ZZ Top or Van Halen. Hard to say but it was probably around 1981-1982. Thanks for the memories. I haven't thought that hard in a long time! Count me in.

 

[pipskicks]

I have tried a lot of those so I'm not in, but amazing PIF for newer members. I was intrigued by the Wilkinson shields but I think you meant swords lol