it's quite good. i wouldn't buy it if it were the price of most other cd's. but seeing that this is just a sampler, and it's cheap, i reccommend it. the only band i'd heard before was the alkaline trio, but once i heard some of the others, i realied that there were some good bands on here. if you have some extra money, like the [cheap] sampler cd's, and a little extra time for some good music, go ahead and buy this.