My First NO/JD Purchase Was....

BLT 12" when I was 12 or 13. At the time I remember taping my own mixes of it on my parents' all-in-one Pye system - how it remains unscratched to this day is a modern miracle!

Lowlife - got me hooked. As did Pumped full of drugs - seeing sunrise on there blew my mind

....'Substance' on CD to replace recorded cassette copy of 'Substance'. First JD was both albums and JD Substance all on cassette when I got my very first paycheck from very 1st job.

Substance 1987 on CD. The year was 1988 IIRC.

First no was substance on tape, a 16th birthday pressie and i can't remember which jd i got first.i think it may have been substance.

umm... first my sister received a taped copy of Substance from a boyfriend of hers... I was 12 and heard the frog croaking on the Perfect Kiss as I walked past her room, and was hooked. I stole the tape from her player, and it stayed in my room... she didn't seem to notice. Two years later the tape fell apart, so I went and bought a cassette version (surprised there was a second side to the tape). Listened to that continuously, until it fell apart and I bought the CD. That CD was scratched a couple years later, and I bought another CD.

Funny enough, I never even thought about buying any other album until Republic came out (after I bought Substance three times over). It still took a couple more years for me to get the back catalog... wasn't until I was in college.

Bought Unknown Pleasures vinyl because I thought the cover was very unique and cool. I had never heard of Ian. Later bought 1981-82(EP) because it was in the Joy Division section of the record store. I wasn't even sure what exactly New Order had to do with Joy Division.

Sure did suck finding out about stuff before the internet! Damn kids have it so lucky nowadays!

everyoneverywhere wrote: I feel like such a n00b. Singles in 2006.

You noob!

Everyone has to start somewhere and its good that with this band folk dont seem to care how long you've liked the band. On some forums if you werent there at the beginning you're not a "proper fan". Whatever that is.

Like quite a few others, Substance 1987 on cassette (from Woolies - i.e. in the white oversized box) after a couple of mates in 5th form kept playing New Order tracks. I'm still peeved that I never went with them to the Finsbury Park gig (was that 1987?) - first gig was to be the NEC with Happy Mondays as support in 1988.

As for buying the rest, gradually started buying the albums shortly afterwards (with money off paper rounds) - have been hooked ever since. I seem to remember that I bought both the Touched By The Hand Of God CD Single and the True Faith CDV Single before I had a CD player (that wasn't to follow until 1989'ish)...

SHED wrote: Fill..i only got the LIMITED EDITION 2 x lp(promo) so what was the cassettes you got?I take it the RED labelled cassette went in Blue covered case and vice versa.Only ever saw the LARGE white boxed ones in WOOLWORTH but due to their size and lack of space on shelves the boxes were marked and thus i didn't want them.Wish i hadn't been so bloody fussy.Good to read some of the comments in this thread. Regards Rocket Mick

mine was 2 single cassette boxes that were housed in a card board sleave with the substance cover on. The B side tape was the longest tape in history and needless to say my walkman ate it one day and it was never the same once crimped!

Blue Monday and/or PCL, sometime in early/mid-1983.

NO: Power Corruption and Lies and Brotherhood - 1988 JD: Substance 1989

But had heard them three years previously.

The US version of International, with the glitch on True Faith, and the dropout during Blue Monday.

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: oh...but I do recall shoplifting a copy of Blue Monday 88 from the local Wal-mart...

I'm fucking hardcore I am...

buying music...

what the fuck is wrong with you people...

Was it the Cassette Single?

Joy Division Permanent from the BMG Music Service about 1996.

My first New Order purchase was the Substance 12" after being reaquainted with New Order after hearing the shitty ass cover of Blue Monday about 97/98.when I was a little kid I used to listen to New Order on my brother's boom box. I distinctly remembered being in a trance whenever I listened to The Beach.

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: oh...but I do recall shoplifting a copy of Blue Monday 88 from the local Wal-mart...

I'm fucking hardcore I am...

buying music...

what the fuck is wrong with you people...

Yeah! U hid it in ya arse! lol

First JD album was Unknown Pleasures early in 1980....after hearing Transmission a couple of weeks before.

First NO purchase was the Ceremony single about a year later.

Brotherhood LP (i think)

Big bro had already bought PC&L and LowLife and as it was them that got me into them it was my turn to buy.

Substance 1987 double cassette.

Lost tape 2 when some knut nicked my mate's car stereo, after I'd insisted we HAD to listen to my new tape.

Happy daze.

Cassette of Brotherhood.

ideal for living ep from a record shop in sale (called discount records mebbe - 50p !! sold about 10 years ago for 80 quid

unknown pleasures in 1979 , bought from a record shop on the Brew in stockport, about 1/4 mile from where it was recorded,, sis division bought transmission when it came out, which i took off her as i liked it more.

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