Buying Ten (back in the day).....

Gremmie03

17
1991
my brother (came home for xmas break. Came back with all sorts of new music (Nirvana, Candlebox, Big head Todd, Blues Travler,Green River, MLB,TOD, AIC) I was still listening to Motley Crue,NWA, bon jovi, poison and 2 live crew. what a change. Wasn't really into concerts then, they were here April 92 then for lolla in August. I had flight to catch, as i was leaving for college. fuck)

hrd2imgn

I think I was 18
Flip Side Records(Palatine, IL) on Cassette
heard evenflow and was blown away by the coolness of the sound(after first listen Deep and Once were my favorites as I was a total metal head...but Release had some power over me I just loved.. To be honest Jeremy, & Alive were maybe my least favorite tracks. I do recall loving Black and Garden first time as well. I did not become a FREAK until I saw them Live in 94...then it was all PJ all the time for almost 3 straight years

eeriepadave

1. West Chester
2. 17 or 18
3. i have no idea what store it was, probably in the mall (maybe Rainbow Records or Sam Goody?)
4. Jeremy (seeing the video on MTV really got me into them, but heard Alive and Evenflow first)

nevmiles

I didn't get Ten until University in 1998 . . . .

Vitalogy was the first PJ album I bought . . . . I then got No Code & Yield when they came out and it wasn't until after the Barrie show in '98 that I was prompted to finally buy Ten and Vs. Got them both used while in University in the fall of '98 (I was 20) from a table in the University Centre that was selling used CD's.

Steve Dunne

1.)Willimantic, CT
2.)20 yrs. old
3.)Strawberries
4.)Alive

Hugh Freaking Dillon

MSnider44 wrote:

Where were you, how old were you, when was it, what store did you buy it from, what single or song made you go get it?

1) Winnipeg, MB
2) 17 years old
3) Musiplex
4) Even Flow

Hugh Freaking Dillon

and as much as I love downloading, I truly miss the days when I had to go to a record store, buy the tape/cd, and wait till I got home to listen to it with a friend (or, if I went alone, ripping it open and throwing it into my Walkman for the bus ride home). Never hearing anything but the singles.

Those were the days.

pjhawks

23 years old
not sure of the store but bought it at the same time as Nevermind (at that time equally loved Nevermind and Ten, until Vs. came out and blew Nirvana away)
not one particular song, loved Jeremy video, Alive and Evenflow all over the radio as well.

Cosmo

1. Glendale, CA.
2. 35
3. MusicPlus
4. Used a gift certificate from Christmas to get 'Nevermind'. There was a balance on the certificate, so I wanted to pick up something else. The store clerk recommended 'Ten', saying, 'If you like Nirvana, you'll probably like these guys'. Tossed in the balance and walked out with the two CDs.
'Ten' got little or no play because my CD player was spinning 'Nevermind' and Nirvana on an endless loop for a couple of years. I thought Pearl Jam was more like Bon Jovi.
It wasn't til 1993, when I first saw them live (on a free ticket) that things changed.

stateoflove79

Long Island, NY
11 or 12
I forget the name of the store, but it was in the Smithhaven mall in Smithtown, NY
Alive

sagapo1

Cleveland, Ohio
22 years old
Took it from my sister (I was a bigger fan)
Even Flow

pdalowsky

14 years old
1993
Sarasota Florida - store boogie woogie - I always go there when I'm in florida
go (vs hit me like a train)

michelleelise

Connecticut
21 (1992)
Can't remember where I bought it - either Hamden or New Haven
Black, but I loved them all.

elvistheking44

Johnny Sitar wrote:

and as much as I love downloading, I truly miss the days when I had to go to a record store, buy the tape/cd, and wait till I got home to listen to it with a friend (or, if I went alone, ripping it open and throwing it into my Walkman for the bus ride home). Never hearing anything but the singles.

Those were the days.

You do realize that you dont have to download the music? They still sell it at stores as well.

KC2917

This is a fun thread!

1. Stockton, CA
2. 12 (1992)
3. Tower Records
4. I'd never heard of PJ, but my "cool" older neighbor told me I would like it. Turns out, he was right. I bought my first two CD's that day; Ten and Core (STP). Ten didn't leave my CD player for about two months.

Mitch8415

- Ellsworth, Kansas (my home town, population 2,500)
- 14 years old (1992)
- Bought the cassette from "The House of Sight and Sound" in Salina, KS (The place still exits - http://www.houseofsightandsound.com/)
- I bought it because my best friend brought his copy over to my house for a listen a week or so before. I loved everything about it.

Side note: that same kid that introduced me to Pearl Jam traveled to Chicago this past April and we went to our first ever PJ show together on 8/23/2009.

pretext

Where were you, how old were you, when was it, what store did you buy it from, what single or song made you go get it?

1. My parents' house, Bucks Co., PA
2. 12
3. XMAS 1992
4. The Wall (either Oxford Valley or Neshaminy Mall) - It was a chirstmas gift, but I know because it had/has the lifetime guarantee sticker.
5. Probably Alive, but Even Flow and Jeremy already were in heavy rotation at that point too and the Jeremy video was the best I'd seen in my life.

Hugh Freaking Dillon

ofthegirl99 wrote:

Johnny Sitar wrote:

and as much as I love downloading, I truly miss the days when I had to go to a record store, buy the tape/cd, and wait till I got home to listen to it with a friend (or, if I went alone, ripping it open and throwing it into my Walkman for the bus ride home). Never hearing anything but the singles.

Those were the days.

You do realize that you dont have to download the music? They still sell it at stores as well.

obviously. I still buy all my music on a physical copy unless it's not available as such. I meant (but didn't specify-my bad) the AGE of downloading. Not just d/l'ing itself, but myspace, legal full album streaming, all that jazz. It's actually pretty difficult to avoid hearing something before it's released. That's all I meant.