My current way is:
- bandcamp.com for some artists
- buying used CDs from a online music CD reseller and ripping them
- download a few from youtube via youtube-dl or something
Now a few of those from youtube are great, i’d like to buy now the album. bandcamp.com doesn’t offer it and it is too specific/too new to get a used CD.
i could buy them from apple Itunes since it is rather cheap and it offers a DRM free download option (i think), but i’d like to avoid apple and its walled garden and bad user interface for linux people.
Just use torrents.
Music trackers are one of the worst ways of finding new music. Having to worry about your ratio all the time really hinders your ability to find new stuff. The only thing they’re really good for quality control.
Direct p2p sharing will always be superior. https://slsknet.org
Or youcouldd just buy music on band camp.