The first thing you bought from Amazon
May 4th, 2010 | Tags: adorno, amazon, mahler, music | 4 Comments
Several writers I enjoy (e.g. Meghan McArdle and Joseph Bottum) have been posting about the first order that they ever placed at Amazon.com. Since I’m on a first-name basis with my UPS guy, I thought it would be fun to do so myself.
Unfortunately, the first book I ever bought from Amazon is pretty embarrassing: on March 1, 1998, I bought a translation of Theodor Adorno’s Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy. I had hoped that Adorno’s interpretation of Mahler’s oeuvre would prove useful for some research I was doing at the time. It did not.
(The first audio recording I bought from Amazon was this Norman/Boulez recording of Bluebeard’s Castle.)
What’s the first thing you bought from Amazon?
May 5th, 2010 at 06:41:57 AM (#)
How do you remember this? I have no idea what the first thing I bought on amazing was!
May 5th, 2010 at 06:42:31 AM (#)
Oops. Freudian slip there, apparently. That should read “I bought on AMAZON” not “I bought on amazing”
May 5th, 2010 at 07:32:20 AM (#)
Val, if you go to your Amazon account page and select “Your Orders,” there is a drop-down menu allowing you to see old orders by year.
May 6th, 2010 at 02:55:11 PM (#)
I don’t think I have bought any music since Amazon started. As for books, it is quite a mix:
first order: “Sex Stupidity and Greed : Inside the American Movie Industry”
second order: “The C++ Programming Language”
third order: “Lolita”