1. Joanna Newsom - Ys
2. Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
3. The Grates - Gravity Won't Get You High
4. Cars Can Be Blue - All The Stuff We Do
5. The Be Good Tanyas - Hello Love
6. Belle And Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
7. Eels With Strings - Live At Town Hall
8. Whispertown 2000 - Livin' In A Dream
9. The Lemonheads - s/t
10. The Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes
11. The Most Serene Republic - Phages
12. Guster - Ganging Up On The Sun
13. Some Girls - Crushing Love
14. The Watson Twins - Southern Manners
15. Young And Sexy - Panic When You Find It
16. Aberfeldy - Do Whatever Turns You On
17. The Polyphonic Spree - Wait [EP]
18. Kupek - Before The Beginning & After The End
19. Damien Rice - 9
20. Cat Power - The Greatest
21. Paper Moon - Broken Hearts Break Faster Every Day
22. Gin Blossoms - Major Lodge Victory
23. Counting Crows - New Amsterdam: Live At Heinken Music Hall
24. Beck - The Information
25. Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton - Knives Don't Have Your Back
26. The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth
27. Norm MacDonald - Ridiculous
28. Soul Asylum - The Silver Lining
29. A.C. Newman - Souvenir Of Canada [EP]
30. Faux Photos - Don't Ever Stop

1. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
2. Stuart Staples - Leaving Songs
3. Yo La Tengo - I'm Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Yo Ass
4. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go
5. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
6. Mogwai - Mr. Beast.
7. The Sleepy Jackson - Personality. One Was A Spider One Was A Bird.
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
9. Thom Yorke - The Eraser

My only two 2006 purchases:
Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Prince - 3121

The B&S is insanely great.
The Prince is quite good, too.
Albums are listed as I would rank them.

EDIT: Made a 3rd '06 purchase yesterday: Tom Zé - Estuando O Pagode. Giving it a first listen now.

01. Man Man - Six Demon Bag
02. Califone - Roots & Crowns
03. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
04. Liars - Drum's Not Dead
05. Subtle - For Hero: For Fool

06. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
07. M. Ward - Post-War
08. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go
09. Danielson - Ships
10. Wolf Eyes - Human Animal

11. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
12. Jason Molina - Let Me Go Let Me Go Let Me Go
13. Vetiver - To Find Me Gone
14. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
15. Citay - s/t

16. Beach House - s/t
17. Joanna Newsom - Ys
18. Akron/Family - Meek Warrior
19. Asobi Seksu - Citrus
20. Sightings - End Times

21. Six Organs of Admittance - The Sun Awakens
22. NOMO - New Tones
23. Super Numeri - The Welcome Table
24. Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice - Gipsy Freedom
25. Growing - Color Wheel
26. Fujiya & Miyagi - Transparent Things
27. Uzeda - Stella
28. Ali Farka Touré - Savane
29. Zach Hill and Mick Barr - Shred Earthship
30. Mission of Burma - The Obliterati

31. Boris - Pink
32. Sparklehorse - Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
33. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
34. Calexico - Garden Ruin
35. Comets on Fire - Avatar
36. Magnolia Electric Co. - Fading Trails
37. Noxagt - s/t
38. M. Craft - Silver & Fire
39. Mouse on Mars - Varcharz
40. Daughters - Hell Songs

41. OOIOO - Taiga
42. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
43. The Roots - Game Theory
44. The Black Angels - Passover
45. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
46. Wilderness - Vessel States
47. Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYo
48. Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
49. Islands - Return to the Sea
50. Witch - s/t
51. Lucero - Rebels, Rogues, & Sworn Brothers
52. Black Heart Procession - The Spell
53. Cat Power - The Greatest
54. Scott Walker - The Drift
55. The Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics
56. CSS - Cansei de ser Sexy
57. Beans - Only
58. Jesu - Silver
59. Excepter - Alternation
60. Terrestrial Tones - Dead Drunk

need more listens to rank:
Herbert - Scale
Belong - October Language
The Paper Chase - Now You Are One of Us

sure...who couldn't use a +1 every now and then:

using the following billy g scale:

10: One of the best records of all-time; listmania quality
9: Not a top 100, but still a stone cold classic
8: Maybe not an all-time classic, but would be #1 in most recent years
7: A Very Good Record
6: A Good Record, But One with Questionable Staying Power
5: I Don't Mind Hearing It, but I don't Need to Own It
4: Not Very Good, nothing really stands out even if its not bad
3: Pretty Bad
2: Even Worse
1: Absolutely Awful
0: No Redeeming Quality What So Ever


1 belle and sebastian.the life pursuit 8.1
2 built to spill.you in reverse 8.0
3 isobel campbell and mark lanegan.ballad of the broken seas 8.0
4 mogwai.mr. beast 7.7
5 mono.you are there 7.6
6 calexico.garden ruin 7.5
7 cat power.the greatest 7.5
8 drive-by truckers.a blessing and a curse 7.4
9 morrissey.ringleader of the tormentors 7.4
10 archie bronson outfit.derdang derdang 7.3
11 the strokes.first impressions of earth 7.3
12 loose fur.born again in the usa 7.3
13 hot chip.the warning 7.3
14 yeah yeah yeahs.show your bones 7.2
15 arctic monkeys.whatever people say i am, that's what i'm not 7.2
16 flaming lips.at war with the mystics 7.2
17 gomez.how we operate 7.1
18 secret machines.ten silver drops 7.0
19 graham coxon.love travels at illegal speeds 7.0
20 neko case.fox confessor brings the flood 6.7
21 clearlake.amber 6.7
22 embrace.this new day 6.6
23 the black angels.passover 6.5
24 the concretes.in colour 6.4
25 josh rouse.subtitulo 6.2
26 tortoise & bonnie "prince" billy.the brave and the bold 5.8
27 the wood brothers.ways not to lose 5.7
28 beth orton.comfort of strangers 5.3
29 band of horses.everything all the time 5.3
30 placebo.meds 5.2
31 stereolab.fab four suture 5.2
32 prefuse 73.security screenings 5.0
33 delays.you see colours 5.0
34 richard ashcroft.keys to the world 3.0

only 15 of my purchases stand out

1. neko case
2. b&s
3. girl talk
4. voxtrot
5. raconteurs
6. johnny cash
7. tv on the radio
8. cat power
9. camera obscura
10. built to spill
11. tortoise & bonnie prince billy
12. mark lannegan & isobel campbell
13. streets
14. springsteen
15. flaming lips

My list has been substantially updated and reconsidered.

1. Tom Zé - Estuando O Pagode
2. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
3. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
4. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
5. Cheap Trick - Rockford
6. The Format - Dog Problems
7. Prince - 3121
8. Def Leppard - YEAH!

I also need to give that Lloyd Cole some more listens to see where it winds up.