Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

What I dislike about Bandcamp is that the music you bought can disappear from your Bandcamp library/account.

There's still a need to download everything and make sure you have backups, etc.

"Buy to own", but only as far as you download it. I was surprised when I learned they can disappear, and indeed had it happen to me. It also means you have to track what you bought differently.

I use qobuz for stuff that is not on bandcamp, big enough to be part of standard distribution, but also let's you buy and download lossless.

I second Soulseek, like another person mentioned. It's one of those Limewire types of peer to peer sharing programs. You share what you've got in your music folder and others do the same. It's been a while since I've used it, but I hear it's still doing well. It's been around for ages!

Your best option will always be private torrent sites in my opinion. Usenet is cumbersome and requires usually at least two paid subscriptions. One for the Usenet server and one for the indexer you use to find your warez on Usenet. Soulseek, edonkey et al will get you music but tags and quality will be all over the place.

Troll around on tracker threads either here but most likely on reddit for open invites. Use an open invite to talk on the forums on that site and they usually have invite threads on there. Go from a open sign up to a closed private site with a little patience and a little time.

I def have to check it out now lol

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