How do we buy music to download these days?
We used buy cds and burn them, what services exist now?
I want to break up with streaming services.
Discussion
Bandcamp is nice to purchase music and merch
I know of no option that you can actually pay for. But someone just posted the Spotify catalogue. https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html
Bandcamp is the one that currently works well for many musicians.
There’s also Mirlo.space and Jam.Coop
Bandcamp has gone through some buyouts recently and there’s a fear they’re gonna enshitify but as of now musicians are getting paid and there’s a decent amount of music there, most indies have a presence there.
When I have the time my plan is to digitize records and cds I own to mp3 and perhaps stream to my devices with nostr:nprofile1qqsw5t3us9xs3gmclzjm37hvk2yy6pv9t96utjjttsj794hexc5x79qpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucm4wfex2mn59en8j6gpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqfmags6 or equivalent
exactly what I want to do. put all my purchases on a jellyfin.
Grab yourself whatever you need via your favourite pirate ship. If you want to support the artist go and buy the track via iTunes or a physical CD
Bandcamp to support independents.
For everything else …Torrents 🏴☠️
