Everyone loves a good Criterion Collection or Shout Factory release. But what’s a good website from which to buy digital media? Do you buy digital media? Or do you just buy physical and rip? Or do you just sail the seas?
Games seem to be itch.io or Steam, maybe a Humble Bundle or Epic/GOG exclusive here and there. But what about movies and music? What about books and audiobooks?
For music I pretty much only buy from Bandcamp and usually wait for the monthly Bandcamp Friday where the site waives their cut so therefore the artist themselves get more money from the sale.
The app (which was never good) is getting worse and the company as a whole was recently sold off so I’m expecting it to slowly get worse and worse but it is still the best place for me to go in terms of my musical tastes.
Came to say this. Also of note, digital purchases on Bamdcamp are downloadable as DRM-free, lossless FLAC files which is awesome.
Yup! And to add to that further I can go back and download my purchases again, whenever I want in a different format if I wish.
Beatport you have to petition their support team to “allow” you to download any of your purchases for a second time.
Juno you buy it in one format, often paying more for a flac or a wav file.
Fuck both of those latter business models.