[Chiwwy]

It's actually very rare for me to buy music, and no, I am not implying that I am a pirate.
 
A lot of the artists I listen to are really cool, and they're always releasing their tracks for free. I've collected about a dozen gigs of just free stuff, by now.
 
I've got it easy.

 

[Smugsie]

How it usually goes.
1. Youtube my song
2. If I like it, techno/electro/dubstep/indie from bandcamp, CD's on sale, and foreign/hard to find music I get from amazon or ebay. If it's extremely hard to find my music, I may decide to go as far as to sail the seas until I can find where to buy it. Especially music from anime's, those are hard!

 

[BrownBear]

Most of the time I get music from iTunes. I usually listen to it on YouTube as well, and if I like it, I'll go buy the proper version. That way I get better quality and stuff from iTunes. Sadly, it isn't in my budget right now to go out and buy full physical copies of discs. Usually I'm buying things on a song to song basis.

 

[Zasteba]

you're all gonna laugh, but I like my HD mixes on youtube

 

[MellonCollie]

So they practically kick you out if you don't contribute?
 
 When I get money (tfw poor) I'm going to start up a vinyl collection and feel good about myself

 

[Dennito]

CDs, an occasional iTune.

 

[jude]

Guys, we don't allow the discussion of illegal music downloading here. Please understand that some of the posts already made about it may be edited/removed.

 

[s4s4s4]

I buy cd's and rip them
I buy vinyl albums and play them
I download hd tracks
 
guess I am sucker and and spend a lot of $, but somebody has to.

 

[Tanelorn]

does someone has experiences with ripping music from tidal MQA or HiFI?
I would love to take some playlists with me while doing sports, but do not want my heavy hone to be with me and use a lightweight audio player instead.

 

[Justin_Time]

I usually buy SACD and LP from Amazon, eBay and Music Direct and download HD recordings from HDTrack.

There are a limited number of titles from these sources but I find most of the MP3 tracks from other sources are of poor quality sonically.

Could someone suggest other places where I can get high-quality recordings of music?

 

[Sound Quest]

Could someone suggest other places where I can get high-quality recordings of music?

I can't suggest where. But if you look around carefully enough, you'll find certain places online where you can download SACD ISOs. I don't own an SACD player, so I use a piece of software which extracts the DSD tracks from the ISO, then I use another piece of software for converting the DSD tracks into high resolution wave files.

 

[zazex]

I buy CD's - mostly used, rated VG or better, from Amazon, eBay, and Discogs.
Over the past year or so I've been finding the VG rated discs to be much better
than they were in prior years - and I attribute that to customers making noise and
docking sellers with punitive feedback - and many sellers are just going with a
VG rating rather than Like New - simply lowering expectations. And it seems to
be working.

Also, so many are just ripping to FLAC or whatever, and then putting the
disc up for sale.

And as for locating music I like, I'm subscribed to rateyourmusic.com,
allmusic.com, and various music services. I look at charts, I read comments
on sites (that are worth reading), I speak with friends and get their take,
if I like a certain producer for example, I'll look up his/her work and then
parse it through rym for example.

Also I listen to radio - WFUV here in NYC, I think is pretty good. So is
the Columbia U station 89.9, and WBGO - jazz all the time. No ads
on any of these. They all play a lot of interesting new stuff during the
overnight, when I tend to do my listening.