Picture the scene. You're in a band and just finished recording an album that in your opinion might just bring every music fan to their knees, trembling in awestruck appreciation of what's just entered their eardrums.

The record company mightn?t however appreciate the effort which has cost thousands to record and produce. So another cash cow is needed to claw back the money; merchandise.

We've all done it when going through the phase of loving one particular band a little too much. Posters, clothes, and stickers are the norm for pop acts, but for artists a little bit more experimental, all sorts of weird and wonderful extras can be found either with the record itself, or as part of a lavish boxset.