I bought between 40-50 albums this year. I will only name 2006 purchases:

Pinetop Seven - Beaneath Confederate Lake
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of this Country
Cat Power - The Greatest
Islands - Return to the Sea
Girl Talk - Night Ripper
My Latest Novel - Wolves
Joanna Newsom - Ys (Ees)
Espers - II
Okkervil River - Overboard and Down
The Submarines - Declare a New State!
Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
Pavement - Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition
The Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes
Fat Worm of Error - Pregnant Babies Preganant with Pregnant Babies
The Blow - Paper Television
Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
Magnolia Electric Co. - Fading Trails
Fern Knight - Music for Witches and Alchemists