O yeh 2 more that spring to mind
Remember all the denim jackets and jeans that had the guys smoking spliffs and holding pistols? I used to love wearing them but they were hand me downs from my cousin so not only was nobody wearing them by then, they were now stone washed denim instead of the original dark blue.

O and when i was about 9 by gran bought me a fake Manchester united football shirt, if i just walked by you couldent really tell, but the main problem is i am a manchester city fan but i dident want to break her heart
( Gaz, Sun 12 Dec 2004, 19:27, Reply)

I like all the same ridiculous shit that I did when I was a kid. Examples:
- I own Rolf Harris's album "Rolf Rules, OK?", which is still one of my favourite albums.
- I am the proud owner of an enormous Ninja Turtles collection, to which people still contribute. The centrepiece is a pair of TMNT swimming trunks for a two-year-old. I bought them in a charity shop when I was 19. I am currently wearing a rubber Raphael key fob.
- My favourite article of clothing is a red and green tartan blazer that I bought aged 15. I still wear it.
(The Ghost of Stephen Foster, Sun 12 Dec 2004, 19:10, Reply)

Mr Blooby album



my god
( Spam Filter Formerly known as Superdude, Sun 12 Dec 2004, 18:41, Reply)

I was (and suppose still am) a fully paid member
of The Tufty Club.

I still have the badge somewhere.
( Snollock Biffer I don't really sniff Bollocks, Sun 12 Dec 2004, 18:29, Reply)

Everyone seems to have gone for "first music bought" etc
So here's mine:
First single, bought in Our Price in the Milton Keynes shopping centre - The Stonk, Hale and Pace and the Stonkers / Comic Relief 1989 I think, still fantastic. I apologise not.
First album - Dangerous, Sir Wacko of Jacko.. for which I apologise profusely.
However, I also must apologise for buying a single by MN8 called 'Pathway To The Moon'... pseudo-romantic pap of the first order.

However, my true worst bad taste has always been in glasses while I was a kid - I started wearing them at about 12 and for some reason believed I looked good in aviator-shape styles... John Major style, and sufficiently large that they used to cause spots about halfway down my cheeks where they touched..; the shame
( Gizmo.mp3 does not exist, Sun 12 Dec 2004, 18:03, Reply)

Not the greatest purchase.................
i was 6 at the time and got some money for my birthday so promptly went out to buy hair cut 100's album featuring the song boy meets girl (woooo):/
( kenyan dave, Sun 12 Dec 2004, 17:39, Reply)

Bad Taste...............
I used to suck my dads car keys coz they tasted funny and metallic like. I was about 4. Now i'm 24, and i see my dad cleaning his ears with his car keys every other day. NO wonder they tasted funny. Thats what i call a bad taste.

My mum used to drive a Skoda, the essence of bad taste. Poo.
(crimpalength, Sun 12 Dec 2004, 17:36, Reply)

did babylon zoo's 'spaceman' ever reach no. 1?
and if not, how the fuck not?? i think every fucker on the entire board bought it when it came out!!!

or was it because your mother told you that when the ice cream van played a tune, it meant BUY BABYLON ZOO'S NEW SINGLE NOW!

mwahahaha

edit: i can't really talk, my first cd purchase was the best of spandau ballet... in like 1994
( St3cks, Sun 12 Dec 2004, 17:25, Reply)

I have always been achingly cool
The picture of me aged 7 wearing a sky blue page boy getup with spangly red trouser braces and a stripy black and white sailor hat doesn't count. My mum made me wear it for her own amusement. It's all ok though; therapy's tremendous fun
(donksta, Sun 12 Dec 2004, 16:42, Reply)

Urm....
When I was younger I bought my first single.... it was... Venga Boys with the crappy boom boom song, luckily I have now burnt the disk with great happiness.

Just thinking about it makes me shudder even today....
(Trogdor Teh Burninator, Sun 12 Dec 2004, 16:29, Reply)

The first single I ever bought was
"Scatman" by Scatman John.

The second single I ever bought was "Scatman's World" by Scatman John.

The third single I ever bought was "Camden Town" by Suggs.

I am cured now.
( Chrico is a bounder and a cad, Sun 12 Dec 2004, 15:45, Reply)

There was a time
that I reeeeeeeeeally wanted a shellsuit.
Mum got me one from a charity shop and i never wore it (ok maybe once)
( Blobcat Less Jaffacakes this year, Sun 12 Dec 2004, 15:14, Reply)

i used to drink cheap white cider
in a park with my friends,it wud always b a 3 litre bottle that would get topped up with tennants super (if anyone has tried tennants you will know how rank and scuzzy it is) when it was half empty

p.s this was about a month ago
p.p.s im 19 not 12
p.p.p.s im not a scummy little chav

i think the only thing i can say to redeem myself it that it wasnt white frightning
( Reme Philips laid an epic dump on, Sun 12 Dec 2004, 14:57, Reply)

give me credit i was only six...
i wanted to do that whole big-baggy-jumper-over-tight-leggings thing. except i was six, so i didn't realise people where actually wearing leggings. the consequence of this was that despite much pleading from my mum, i went to school wearing a big chunky jumpy over a pair of bright pink, woollen tights. oh yes.
( eponymous Oh!, Sun 12 Dec 2004, 14:55, Reply)

Oh the shame…
13-ish: Always buying shoes with really thick soles because I thought John Travolta was cool ( Which he was in “ Pulp Fiction “. The same could not be said of his role in “ Grease “, which I was trying to emulate. ).

15-ish: Phoning my mum up, telling her I was not going into school and I was coming back home because I’d put too much patchouli oil on.

16: Skin tight black canvas jeans, white cowboy boots and a Motorhead England
T-shirt.

16: Being told to take off my leather jacket for my class photo at school. Unfortunately I was wearing a “ Girlschool “ T-shirt. I went to an all boys school.
Apparently there were a lot of upset dads who wanted to batter me to a pulp when they were printed.

17-ish: Flat cap ala AC/DC’s Brian Johnson and Legging ankle warmers ala Fame…at the same time. Also in the same year, a wine coloured velvet jacket with a plush snoopy toy in the top pocket, whilst wearing my girlfriend’s gipsy top…oh the shame.

Eyeliner !

If you have long hair DON’T let either female friends or girlfriends who are hairdressers practice on you. One styled my beautiful long locks into something resembling a WWII German helmet. The other, once it had grown back, gave me mullet !

And finally. Not exactly first records but… buying a single by Olivia Newton John and one by the Sex Pistols at the same time. The bloke at the record shop was good enough not to piss himself laughing.
(brucekitty, Sun 12 Dec 2004, 14:39, Reply)

The first album I ever bought?
That fine debut by the sack-trousered master of spacker-dancing, M.C. Hammer.

I really liked it too.
(badgertastic badgers are people too, Sun 12 Dec 2004, 14:35, Reply)

being older than most of you
Red & blue Loon pants over a pair of cowboy boots. A hideous joke, even then. (Loon pant explanation available from your parents)
(sandman0733, Sun 12 Dec 2004, 14:12, Reply)

I'm so sorry...
My first single purchase was 'Swing the Mood' by Jive Bunny and the Master Mixers. **Oh the shame**
(dampsquib, Sun 12 Dec 2004, 13:54, Reply)

Oh Dear.
I used to have one of those librarian-style strings hanging my glasses on, bright red and obvious (when I always wore blue), when I was about ten.

And I used to like robot wars.

I even thought Jeremy Beadle was funny.

Don't kill me.
(Turnipton, Sun 12 Dec 2004, 12:41, Reply)

errr....
Is it possible to renounce the period 1987 - 1992? Too many rock, goth, patchouli smelling incidents to recall.

If not, i offer you my undercut with ponytail. a folecular travesty best never mentioned again.
(lordfredatron lordfredatron, Sun 12 Dec 2004, 12:37, Reply)

Poor Odd Child
What sort of 3yr old child runs into the house beaming with excietment yelling "mummy mummy do you want to see something sporting!" and then shows mother a giant slug they found in the garden. In fact what sort of 3yr old child uses the word sporting? Dam I was weird.
(rattus, Sun 12 Dec 2004, 11:19, Reply)

i hate to admit it, but when i was about 11 i...
...bought a rick astley tape :/
(kodini, Sun 12 Dec 2004, 10:13, Reply)

just got inspired to download 'Blaze of Glory'
by bon wossface as I did a sponsored bike ride when I was 10 and this inspired me
I am a silly cunt and always have been
(1st team orc, Sun 12 Dec 2004, 3:14, Reply)

Hmm
I used to like Barry Manilow when i was but a little impressionable twat.
( stereo_world has decided not to eat your photograph., Sun 12 Dec 2004, 2:41, Reply)

Mmm...
My best friend and I used to eat worms because we were told when you cut a worm in half in continues to live. Not only did we want worms in our stomachs, we wanted to shit worms too.
(Joanna, Sun 12 Dec 2004, 1:18, Reply)

Care Bears
I also LOVED the Care Bears. I actually took a bath with the Care Bears tape, and ruined it. I cried.
(feijuada, Sun 12 Dec 2004, 0:14, Reply)

Barney
I used to wear Barney sweaters. A lot.
(feijuada, Sun 12 Dec 2004, 0:12, Reply)

Taking "taste" literally
Vinegar by itself.

Heinz Sandwich spread with nothing else except bread or crackers.

Cider.

All the above I cannot stand now.
( Bagpuss, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 23:23, Reply)

Hmm... been said by many, but here goes:
1) Black socks with shorts (too young to notice it looked poor)
2) First album bought: The Smurfs Go Pop!
3) First single bought: Bablyon Zoo's 'Spaceman' (either that, or Jacko's 'Earth Song', which I loved for about a week and used to wail to)
4) Bought the Hamster Dance (dic-a-dee-da-ba-da-do-do)
5) First CD: Eiffel 65: Blue (Da Ba Dee)
6) Our family had 2 copies of the Spice Girls: Spice!, and I used to sing along to Viva Forever (its still a great song)
7) Never told anyone this... used to love playing with Barbie dolls when I was around 4ish. Got a camper van for xmas once, it was pink and I was overjoyed! (I'm a guy)
8) Not sure if this counts as bad taste... but I loved toy cars, and used to hold one up against the window when we were in the car. It looked as if it was really going!
9) Until 2 years ago (ie age 15) I didnt care what my hair looked like. 15 and still going to school with bed hair... shocking. I only started gelling it when I got a girlfriend, but that didnt make me start caring what I wore. Oh, how I've learned...
EDIT: 10) Oh yeah - had a Thunderbirds costume. Hat and all. But thats not bad taste, it was Virgil's one and Thunderbirds will never not be cool.
11) Aaaaand got my mum to make me an Aladdin costume for my... ooh... 7th birthday? Was it that long ago? Anyway, it was poor. And I did not look attractive in it. At all.
12) And another one... when Toy Story came out, I was lucky enough to get the big toys of both Buzz and Woody. I bought woody first, and got my mum to make a jacket for him. It was great - fitted him perfectly, tassles, leather effect... stonking. But what did I do? Took him to school, jacket and all, and insisted my teacher make an exercise book for him. What a nob I was!

Wow, that was good to get off my chest. Apologise for length? Nah, you know you love it
(costie, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 21:56, Reply)

Leg Warmers and Smurfs
OOOOHHH, those neon legwarmers! In the black leggings and long pink daddy shirts with ziggy black line designs. Oh yes, don't forget the hair scrunchies! Now singalong with Cyndi Lauper :P

Those smurf albums were played constantly until getting warped when left out in the sun. OH Smurf!
(Eosine02, Sat 11 Dec 2004, 21:34, Reply)