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"Music-wise, what was the first 45, single or download you bought?"
Submitted by Paddy Melt Wagon.

I was a kid in the early 90's so I probably wasn't buying any 45's, and the Napster phenomenon didn't start until I was at least 15, so I downloading anything, either. I used to watch MTV with my dad on Saturday mornings and always had young babysitters, so I was exposed to some weird shit at a young age. He used to buy me cassettes when we'd go shopping, and I think the first was The Raw & The Cooked from the Fine Young Cannibals. I was 6 years old and totally nuts for  'She Drives Me Crazy.' By the time I was 9 years old I had moved onto the cassette single of Weezer's 'Undone, The Sweater Song,' and S.W.V.'s Remixes album. In fact, I think I got them both on the same day.
 

To my credit: within less than a year I had moved on to Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, and Green Day; by the time I was 12 my favorites were The Sex Pistols, The Buzzcocks, Jilted John (whom you've never heard of), and Tool.