yer same i'm late too but how bout lik-wid i like there new album but i'm not sure whether they've made it nationally hmmmmm got me thinkin
i would recommend Aerosmith if you're into classic rock, Guns'n'Roses to....or if any of the Big 4 of Grunge...always kick ass....
I don't know about the US, but in the UK you can get Angel Dust and The Real Thing for the same price as the most recent FNM best-of. I would sooner recommend that. I would agree with Stof that Silent Alarm by Bloc Party would be a good purchase as well. They're kind of like Franz Ferdinand, but geared more towards bands like The Cure, without ripping them off like FF do with Talking Heads. Or, Derek, you could buy a Deftones album and actually listen to it.
Get War All The Time by Thursday. Or something by The Clash. Yeah, I'm late. I don't care. Buy them anyway.
Radiohead is amazing. =P You must get. I would suggest more, but you listen to most of the stuff I listen to so yeah.
One CD that I hardly ever take out of my CD player is We're a Happy Family - A Tribute To The Ramones. KISS, Marilyn Manson, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Rancid, The Pretenders and more, it's a good one.