While listening to the entire South By South West (06 and 05), I created a list of 40 or so songs "worth looking into". Next step, buy CDs from those indie artists. My intentions are both to get good music and to stick it to the major-label radio-song disposable-artist factories by supporting their truely tallented competition.

Question is, how can I get the most of my money into the pockets of the artists and those who help deliver their music? So far, I've purchased indie CDs from the bands official site or to whomever they link to as their official store. Prices are decent (but, of course, I'm giving my credit card to many potentially vulnerable smaller vendors).

Or should I just buy the CDs from Amazon, where I can get many of them on one order with no shipping charge? Do my dollars get to the artists/producers/label the same either way?