- Deerhunter - Cryptograms
- The National - Boxer
- A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers
- Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
- Battles - Mirrored
- Carribou - Andorra
- The Field - From Here We go to Sublime
- Broken Social Scene Presents Kevin Drew - Spirit If
- Pela - Anytown Graffiti
- The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
- LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
- !!! - Myth Takes
- St. Vincent - Marry Me
- Apparat - Walls
- Panda Bear - Person Pitch
- M.I.A. - Kala
- The White Stripes - Icky Thump
- Peter, Bjorn and John - Writers Block
- Rob Crow - Living Well
- Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs
Recent purchases that are on several end of year lists, in order of how much I think I might end up liking them.
- Radiohead - In Rainbows
- Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
- Burial - Untrue
- Holy Fuck - LP
- Band of Horses - Cease To Begin
- No Age - Wierdo Rippers
- Los Campesinos! - Sticking Fingers into Sockets
- Stars of the Lid - and Their Refinement of the Decline
- Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
- Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
- Arctic Monkeys - Favorite Worst Nightmare
- Feist - The Reminder
- Okkervil River - The Stage Names
- Liars - Liars
- Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
- Nina Nastasia & Jim White - You Follow Me
- Justice - t
Not as great as I'd hoped they'd be - This list is in order of how much I liked the CD compared to how much I thought I'd like it before I bought it. So if I was really excited about a CD and then it sucked it would be ranked at that top of the list. If it was a CD that some friends recommended and I bought it and didn't care for it, then I had lower expectations so it's ranked lower. In the case of Amon Tobin, it's a good CD but my expectations for him are completely unrealistic.
- Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City
- Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
- The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
- Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
- Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
- Blonde Redhead - 23
- Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
- Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens
- Interpol - Our Love to Admire
- Amon Tobin - Foley Room
