I stared at the cover a lot. And I gawked at the inside album art even longer, wondering what the hell they were all wearing, vaguely aware that they were badass and I was not.

The first album I owned was Still Cruisin' by the Beach Boys. It was 1989. Shoulder pads were big. Hair was bigger. The Beach Boys were on Full House the previous year. I was eight.

Who the hell is Richard Marx? Being another baby of Gizmodo, I'm sure I've still got a lot to learn about music, especially since I'm one of those kids who's completely brainwashed by The Mouse.

Besides some Spanish groups most of you won't know—Radio Futura—David Bowie's Hunky Dory was the first album I ever remember getting. I've been listening to music through my telescopic nipple antennas since then.

Unlike Jason, I have a reason to be proud of my first album purchase. It was Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine on cassette.

The first CDs I got for my first CD player? Why, Blind Melon and the Jurassic Park soundtrack, of course.

I got off to a rough start.

I bought my first two albums, Beck's Odelay and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones' Let's Face It, both on CD, when I was about 11 or 12. Yeah, I'm younger than Jason and Mark.

Unlike Mark's first album, my first album unfortunately contained no ninjas. Unless Richard Marx was a ninja.

The first music that I ever purchased was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie Soundtrack (on cassette).