Not necessarily piracy, but I realise that it might be the only option.
I’m planning to get away from Spotify. Is there some good places to get music. I don’t mind paying for it. But I don’t want a subscription service. I just want to be able to give someone money in exchange for a product. And ideally a MP3 or something similar so I can use it offline and move the file between devices.
Does something like that exist somewhere?
Hit up your local thrift stores, they have tons of music cds, then rip them?
you can purchase individual albums through the download store.
or you can buy a month of the unlimited download subscription and download everything you want
can be downloaded in either MP3 or lossless FLAC (though, don’t download above CD quality because you won’t hear the difference)
there also may or may not be a set of resources out there under the name Firehawk52
I just download my favorite music directly from YouTube with youtube-dl or something similar. It’s not pay-walled and it usually doesn’t even have ads on it.
there’s Bandcamp if your favorite artists are on there, usually they allow download in exchange for money.
Agreed about the last point. I actually prefer to pay for my media. I like supporting the stuff I like, and I have an acceptable income now so that’s not really an excuse any longer.
My reason for occasionally turning to piracy is because the products I’m offered seems to be getting worse, and that’s something I cannot accept. Not being able to listen to the music I bought because I moved the files from one device I own to another, or my audiobooks being unavailable because I’m somewhere without internet access and the Audible app not letting me log in. All unacceptable as far as I’m concerned.
And. Tickets and merch is obviously great.
