The first ones you bought

[Villavic]

I don’t remember if this was posted in the past. Probably it wasn’t the exact question, so here I go.

Do you remember the first Fleetwood Mac records (albums, singles, vynil, CDs, tapes, etc.) you bought? And when? My list:

Live vynil album, I got it in 1982.
Tango in the Night. Cassette, 1987
Fleetwood Mac/Rumours Two on One. Cassette, 1988
Tusk. Cassette, 1988

In the early 90s I started to migrate all my FM material to CDs, and got new ones (Mirage, Behind the Mask, and later Time, etc.). I no longer remember the year I bought those. Why I didn’t get the Mirage tape in the 80s? I taped from a friend’s vynil album, though not the entire album but the songs I liked the most.

I never bought any single record, but as an honorable mention my brother got the YMLF single record in 1978. However, it was not until 1982 that a became a fan. I kept that 45-rpm record for a long time. It had Gold Dust Woman in side B.

[HomerMcvie]

May I help you?

V.I.N.Y.L.

My cousin moved in with us when I was in 7th grade, with her 8- track collection. I instantly fell in love with Rumours. I honestly can't remember if she also had White, or I went out and bought it. But I have very vivid memories of buying Tusk and Live.

Formats? Mirage was the first one I bought on cassette, and if you ever wondered when 8- tracks were dying, Bella Donna was the last 8- track I ever purchased.

[Macfan4life]

I am not as old as you old timers on this board :lol:
I did not get into the Mac until they went adult contemporary and were no longer considered a cool band. I must have been the biggest geek ever!

Rumours album 1983 - Hills Department Store
Bella Donna 1983 - Woolworths
Mirage 1983 - Sears department store
Fleetwood Mac 1983 - National Record Mart
Live 1980 1983 - K-Mart
Wild Heart 1983- National Record Mart
Christine McVie - 1984 Hills Department Store
Tusk - 1984 - National Record Mart
Heroes Are Hard to Find - 1984 National Record Mart
Rock A Little - 1985 National Record Mart
Tango - 1987 - National Record Mart first cassette
1988 - Greatest Hits - National Record Mart cassette
1989 - OSOTM - National Record Mart - cassette
1990 - BTM - National Record Mart Earth Day May 1990 - cassette
1991 - Timespace
1992- Out of the Cradle - National record Mart - cassette
1995- Time - cassette Specs Music
1997 - The Dance Specs Music Cassette
1998 - Enchanted CD I finally got a CD player
2004 - In the meantime CD - Specs Music

All others I purchased CD online. I can remember where I bought each album because it was such a pivotal moment in my life. I can remember holding each in my hands and rushing home to play it.

[sue]

1968….Albatross
1969….Man of the World
1969….Oh well
I could only afford to buy singles at that time…and once Peter Green left, well they slipped under my radar….until

1975…Fleetwood Mac
I fell back in love with them…and the minute Rumours was released I had to have it…..
1977…Rumours

[sleepless child]

In 1975 I got the white album. Probably for my birthday or Christmas.

[BLY]

I bought Rumours after it was released in February of 1977 after that…..all of the back catalogue and then everything as it was released to this date solo and band. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[aleuzzi]

My sister bought Rumours in 1977. We played the **** out of it.

I bought Mirage in ‘82; Tusk in ‘82; Fleetwood Mac in ‘82

Wild Heart in ‘83, Heroes, Penguin, Kiln House and Bare Trees in ‘83, also Christine Perfect

Mystery, Then Play On, and Future Games in ‘84, Christine McVie in ‘84

Everything else — Live in Boston, Chicago, Mr Wonderful, The Vintage Years, in ‘85

Tango in ‘87

Didn’t buy Mask

Bought Time in ‘95

[mitzo]

Bought Rumours in 77 probably on vinyl. Tusk in 89 on vinyl and clung to it for a few years making a few mixtapes of it. To play in the car and so on. Loved it and still do.

Bought Bella Donna in 81 and was so disappointed, plus lived abroad with limited access to western music 81 - 84. I ignored Stevie and the band until Tango hit the radio waves in 87 and Seven Wonders pulled me in. Then bought all the releases I had missed and kept up from then on.

I even have Time.

[Street_Dreamer]

I bought the Greatest Hits CD in August of 2000 at a WalMart in Lakeport, California. I can't remember after that.

[FuzzyPlum]

Can’t remember the format (either cassette or CD) and can’t remember where purchased but the order I bought everything….

1988…didn’t initially buy TITN….but played the hell out of my parents vinyl.
This ignited my love for the band and went on to buy…
Behind the Mask
Rumours
White album
Mirage
Greatest Hits (1970)
Live in Boston (1970)
Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac
Mr Wonderful
Then Play On
Tusk
Live
Future Games
Time
Kiln House
The Dance
Say You Will
Bare Trees
Mystery To Me
Heroes
Penguin
Buck-Vie
Can’t remember at what point I bought Greatest Hits (88), Very Best of, or all the various other blues compilations.

Until the recent deluxe releases the only record I had on vinyl was Tusk. I still absolutely love the extravagance of that package.

[Nathan]

Trouble in Shangri-La on CD, purchased in Autumn 2004, in Fairbanks, Alaska. :thumbs-up:

I was quite excited -- title track especially.

[Macfan4life]

Trouble in Shangri-La on CD, purchased in Autumn 2004, in Fairbanks, Alaska. :thumbs-up:

I was quite excited -- title track especially.
That release was a first. There was lots up build up before the release because Stevie had been working on it for years and it was her first solo studio album in over half a decade. They sold online downloads of the album. I remember buying the download and when the CD was released it would be mailed to you. The download gave you access to the album weeks before it was released. That clever trick made the album debut in the top 5.
It was the spring of 2001. Stevie also had a #1 dance track with Planets that summer. I was still in my club days back then. It was a great moment right before the world was going to change forever. Having said that its one of my least favorite Stevie solo albums. There are about 4 good tracks. It all has a similar studio musician sound over produced by Sheryl Crow. No real chances. No songs grab you. No guitar solos. No cracking drums. Its so meh.

[DownOnRodeo]

My first was in 1997 or 1998 when I bought Greatest Hits (1988).

I remember playing that CD on repeat while trying to complete the Super Mario 64 video game.

I'm completely inept at video games, so that meant a lot of repeat playings of Greatest Hits -- which by the way included Oh Dianesince it was the UK version.

So I still have an association with the game when I hear some of those songs.

The first ones I bought at the time of their release were TISL, Say You Will, In The Meantime, and Under The Skin. It was a fun few years to be a newcomer fan.

[jbrownsjr]

I bought Mirage at a Zayer's. It was on display at every cashier.

I gave it to my mom as a birthday gift and then took it back! :laugh:

I guess my gift was a Mirage. As it said, "Hold Me!"

[HomerMcvie]

I bought Mirage at a Zayer's. It was on display at every cashier.

I gave it to my mom as a birthday gift and then took it back! :laugh:

I guess my gift was a Mirage. As it said, "Hold Me!"

Most of mine came from K-mart.

And it's Zayre.:D

[jbrownsjr]

And it's Zayre.:D

God, I was so close!!! :laugh:

[HomerMcvie]

God, I was so close!!! :laugh:

:xoxo:

On topic, I just took an online quiz, and it stated that FM Greatest Hits is widely considered to be the LAST 8-track ever produced.

I usually cling to formats like Stevie and Mick to a coke straw.... it's hard to believe that Bella Donna was MY last 8- track, 7 years earlier. I guess I was tired of fighting the player in my car, shoving shims in with the tape, to get the high end.

[Macfan4life]

I bought Mirage at a Zayer's. It was on display at every cashier.

I gave it to my mom as a birthday gift and then took it back! :laugh:

I guess my gift was a Mirage. As it said, "Hold Me!"
I remember Zayres. They were a bit wild. I got a bike there once. They would let the kids ride the bikes in the store. For some reason they were more exciting to go to than other department stores. Maybe it was just ours though.

[jbrownsjr]

I remember Zayres. They were a bit wild. I got a bike there once. They would let the kids ride the bikes in the store. For some reason they were more exciting to go to than other department stores. Maybe it was just ours though.

I grew up near one. They had Mirage displayed at every cash register lane, like Hershey's with almonds.

[jbrownsjr]

:xoxo:

On topic, I just took an online quiz, and it stated that FM Greatest Hits is widely considered to be the LAST 8-track ever produced.

I usually cling to formats like Stevie and Mick to a coke straw.... it's hard to believe that Bella Donna was MY last 8- track, 7 years earlier. I guess I was tired of fighting the player in my car, shoving shims in with the tape, to get the high end.

I hated tape, with the exception of recording (using my tape recorder).

But, the first White album cassette I purchased, sounded so good in my Sanyo walkman!! But, after a few plays it started to wear. Those things were rough.

[HomerMcvie]

I hated tape, with the exception of recording (using my tape recorder).

But, the first White album cassette I purchased, sounded so good in my Sanyo walkman!! But, after a few plays it started to wear. Those things were rough.

I worked at a grocery store in high school, and we had these little flat box cutters(with a razor blade in it). I always had to shove the cutter into the player in my car, beneath the 8-track, to get the treble to come in. :laugh:

[Villavic]

I hated tape, with the exception of recording (using my tape recorder).

But, the first White album cassette I purchased, sounded so good in my Sanyo walkman!! But, after a few plays it started to wear. Those things were rough.

Finding good sound quality in cassettes was like wining the lottery. My Tango cassette sounded very very good. But the Rumours/White two in one, and the Tusk cassette were just fine. I bought them in 1988, but I don't remember when they were released.

https://s.ecrater.com/stores/110247/4cd4f61cf017b_110247b.jpg

Most cassette albums sounded just fine or even not good enough. I didn't understand why, what was the logic. I remember when I recorded some Mirage songs from a friend's vinyl album, on his Technics stereo deck in 1982, to a TDK AD cassette, it sounded really really high quality. So I don't know why most purchased cassette albums didn't sound high quality.