I buy CDs, DVDs and the odd vinyl record. I don't like downloadable music as a general rule except for checking out new songs/bands - give me media, artwork and lyrics I can hold in my hands any day - even though I seem to be forever running out of CD shelf space! ;-P I hate those CD spine stickers and any other hard-to-remove stickers - GRRR!! Check out Foamy's CDs rant! - he's so right about this stuff! Thanks to Collide for spreading the word about it (their posters are featured in this 'toon). :-)

The current list of artists in my collection is:
13 Tears, 10,000 Maniacs, A Camp, Absorption, Addicted2Fiction, Aenima, (Nichole) Alden, All Girl Summer Fun Band, All My Faith Lost..., Andalusia, Android Lust, Angelfish, Angelwing, Anthems For Odyssey, Arch Visceral Parlor, Area, The Array, Artemis, Astrobrite, Asy9, Au Revoir Simone, Autumn, Autumn's Grey Solace, The Azoic, Backlash, Balligomingo, Ballistic Edna, Bat For Lashes, Belly, Between the Waters, B(if)tek, The Birthday Massacre, Big Muff, Blake Babies, Blanche Dubois, Sarah Blasko, Bleep (now Woomera), Blind Faith and Envy, Blonde Redhead, Blondie, Bloodwire, Breather, The Breeders, Claudia Brucken, Butterfly Messiah, Caracas Femme Trip, The Cardigans, Amanda Carl, Cassette Electrick, Catherine Wheel (Australian), Charmparticles, Cindergarden, Clannad, Eric Clapton, Clevergirl, (The) Clouds (Australian), Cocteau Twins, Cocytus, Cokelogic, Collide, Conjure One, The Corrs, The Cranberries, Selena Cross, The Cure, Curve, Angie Damage, Dark Blue World, The Darling Buds, Darling Violetta, Daughter Darling, Deadstar, The Dearhunters (Australian), Deep Red, Delerium, Dia, Diet Audio, Dif Juz, Distorted Reality, The Divine Madness, Tanya Donelly, Dorian Gray, Dreaming Blue, The Dresden Dolls, Jacqueline du Pre, Siobhan Duvall, Eden, Ego Likeness, Elastica, Electrostatic, Elysium, Endless Blue, Endorphin, Enigma, Enya, Essenza, Ether Aura, Evanescence, Exit 22, Eye Knife, Faide, Faith & Disease, Falling Joys, Falling You, Fleau, The Flir, Flume, Louise Fraser, Frente(!), Frolic, Frontline Assembly (& Friends), Frownland, Full Minute of Mercury, Fusion Fable, Fuzzbox, Jo Gabriel, Garbage, The Gathering, Gatja, Geko, Genesis, Genji, Lisa Gerrard, The Girls From The Clouds, The Glass Hour, Glow, Go Sailor, Goldenhorse, Nina Gordon, Robin Guthrie, Halou, Kay Hanley, Angie Hart, Juliana Hatfield (Three), Heaven Falls Hard, Heavenly, Heligoland, Jimi Hendrix, Suzie Higgie, The High Violets, Nicola Hitchcock, HMB, Holidays on Ice, Gustav Holst, Hooverphonic, Lily Holbrook, The Hope Blister, Hover, Howling Bells, Hungry Lucy, Hyperplush, I:Scintilla, Iberis, Ikon, Illume, Illumina, The Innocence Mission, Karen Ires, Isobella, Ivy, Elton John (& The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), Louisa John-Krol (and side projects), Jean-Michel Jarre, Joydrop, The Juliet Dagger, Jute, Kidneythieves, Killing Heidi, Klik, Kram, Kryptonite Garden, KUMAsound, Lambretta, Lash, Lava Hay, Letters To Cleo, Meredith Levande, Life's Decay, Liquifaction, Suzanne Little, Little Birdy, Lisa Loeb (& The Nine Stories), Loomer, The Lost Patrol, Love Spirals Downwards, Loveliescrushing, Lovespirals, Eliza Lumley, Lunascape, Lush, The Machine In The Garden, Madison Avenue, Mankind Is Obsolete, Massive Attack, The Mavis's, Mazzy Star, Sarah McLeod, Meander, Rose Melberg, Melodyguild, Mercurine, Robert Miles, Camille Miller, Minefield, Mira, Mirabilis, The Mirror Reveals, Moler, Mono, Mors Syphilitica, Munkie, My Bloody Valentine, Nectarphonic, The New York Room, No Doubt, Nordic, Nouvelle Vague, Numeralia, Tony O'Connor, Off Limits, Opus III, Orange, Palodine, The Panic Attacks, Paper Moon, Paramore, Jodi Phillis, Pink Floyd, Pixies, Plastic Parachute, Plumerai, The Plums, The Poppies, Portishead, The Postmarks, Povi, Present Tense, The Primitives, Propaganda, Propellerheads, Purr Machine, Jody Quine, R/R Coseboom, Simon Raymonde, Rhea's Obsession, Rodrigo, Rose Chronicles, Saint Etienne, Hope Sandoval & The Warm Intentions, Sandrine, The Saucers, Scarecrow Tiggy, Scarlet Slipping, Scarling, The Secret Meeting, The Secret Resistance, Sentinel, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Max Sharam, The Shroud, Siddal, Sing-Sing, Single Gun Theory, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Sixpence None The Richer, Skulker, Sky, Slovaki Audio, Sneaker Pimps, Snow Leopards, The Softies, Some Girls, Somegirl, Sophya, Sour Deluxe, Spiderbait, Splendid, Splinter, Stoa, Sugarplum Fairies, Sully, The Sundays, The Superjesus, Swallow (4AD band), Sweetness: The Band, Switchblade Kittens, tCR, Tagging Satellites, Talulah Gosh, Tapping The Vein, Tarabud, Taste Of Joy, Tearwave, Technoir, This Ascension, This Mortal Coil, Tiger Trap, Torsion, Trance To The Sun, Trespassers William, The Trinity Project, Twigs, TyLean, Under, Underground Lovers, Unfinished Thought, Karina van Ron, Veloce, Veruca Salt, Victoria Vox, Vidna Obmana, The Vincent Black Shadow, Violet Indiana, Violet Tears, Visage, Vivaldi, We Float, (Paul McCartney &) Wings, Wirebox, X Mal Deutschland, You're Pretty, and many various artists compilations.

PHEW!! :-P

I'm always adding more - will try to keep this list up-to-date... ;-)

If you have suggestions for bands/artists similar to these feel free to drop me a email/comment! Many of these artists are on Myspace and are in my Friends Space so do check out their pages. If I've missed any/your Myspace page please let me know too! If you get rejected don't take it personally, I'm just trying to keep a focus on it being just for the music I like (an eclectic/oddball collection it is too! :-P ) so it's not a reflection on you or the quality of your music - OK?! Cheers.

A few places I shop online:
Projekt - see also @ Myspace - their online sale is definitely worth a look!
CD Baby - their $5 sale specials are a great source of new music and bargains
Middle Pillar
Nilaihah Records - see also @ Myspace
Alfa-Matrix Label Group
I have no affiliation with these companies/people! I'm just a happy customer who has bought CDs, DVDs, t-shirts, etc. from them in recent times (several times in some cases!) and have been happy with their service. "Your mileage may vary" - but I would be suprised - and disappointed - if it did...

I've not bought CDs from The Fossil Dungeon directly but I do have some of their label's releases (eg. Butterfly Messiah, Falling You and Mirabilis) - check out their Myspace profile too.

I have an Ibanez SR590TT bass guitar (an attractive and fairly rare? bass - even though it has some bubbling and clouding of the gold coated/anodised? bridge) and an Ibanez Jet-King 1 (JTK1) electric guitar (the attention to detail with the pick-guar placement and poor coating finish is not up to Ibanez's usual standards I must admit, but for the price it seemed like a good beginner's guitar with some nice features like coil-tapped pickups and that funky retro pawnshop styling LOL). I've more or less taught myself to play the bass by ear, jamming to Lush and Skulker songs in particular, but I must confess the extra strings and inconsistent string tuning on the guitar confuses an ex-cellist like me so I really have done nothing with the JTK1... :-P My cello hasn't been played serious since I left school, and lurks in a cupboard. I've though about dragging it out and playing it but I think it needs new strings and the price of them is not inconsiderable these days... I got a Ukelele last Xmas just for fun and I play it about as much as the rest of my instuments (err, yes I must make more effort! :-P )