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OK, I may well be a couple of iterations behind the curve here, but just how do we 'buy' music to keep/own these days?
I'm not about to subscribe to a streaming service, I want the files in my possession to load to devices that I can play whenever and wherever I want without relying on an internet connection. In the past I have embraced Mp3 and still have my music library in this format but with the hard file back-up being that I buy and store the CD version of any album I want to own as this is the ever-lasting, almost uncorruptible master copy from which the data copies can be ripped should a total data meltdown ever occur!
Just looking at buying a copy of the Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon album as it is 50 years old this year, as it happens so am I.
I was looking at CD versions when my clever 17yr old son pointed out that we don't even have a functioning CD reader at the moment as the desktop PC we did use has now been decommissioned.
So just what is the best, VFM method of legally downloading music to own (legal being quite important as I believe the artists and businesses that support/promote them deserve their slice for providing the music)?
I'm not about to subscribe to a streaming service, I want the files in my possession to load to devices that I can play whenever and wherever I want without relying on an internet connection. In the past I have embraced Mp3 and still have my music library in this format but with the hard file back-up being that I buy and store the CD version of any album I want to own as this is the ever-lasting, almost uncorruptible master copy from which the data copies can be ripped should a total data meltdown ever occur!
Just looking at buying a copy of the Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon album as it is 50 years old this year, as it happens so am I.
I was looking at CD versions when my clever 17yr old son pointed out that we don't even have a functioning CD reader at the moment as the desktop PC we did use has now been decommissioned.
So just what is the best, VFM method of legally downloading music to own (legal being quite important as I believe the artists and businesses that support/promote them deserve their slice for providing the music)?
