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Bandcamp is great. I buy albums on Bandcamp when I can. Too many artists are not on there though, or only have older albums available.
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.
Interesting. I have yet to lose anything from my library on Bandcamp but that would piss me off if it happened.
I do download and backup my purchases though. I download in both FLAC and mp3 320 formats so I have my bases covered just in case. It is annoying to keep my purchases separate though.
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.