Laptop worth around £600 these days
Digital Voice Recorder worth £300
Mobile Phone worth a couple hundred, (it was free on contract), but it's a Nokia 6680
iPod (no idea how much it's worth these days, it's a 4th Gen)
My sexalicious sony headphones, but they only cost about £40...

Yeah, all this and more in the ugliest bag in the world, black and silver laptop rucksack (it was free)...

As you mentioned, Machinae Supremacy offer over 25 tracks in high bitrate Ogg & MP3 formats from their website (all of which are IMHO, excellent and of their own unique sound). What is more significant, however is that they take active part on the forums and the website, making a tight community of fans. Maybe if more bands used the internet as a means to interact with the listeners, and promote their activities, people would start to discover alternative genres and bands instead of downloading the latest Top-10 hits on P2P services such as Kazaa.