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Like what stores?

https://bandcamp.com/ is really wonderful if you're asking about music in general and not artists hitting the billboard charts. However, as it supports free listening there isn't a barrier to searching around and discovering new things.

If you want some good coding music for the day I'd suggest starting with https://wanderband.bandcamp.com/

I love bandcamp. For 9 years now I've been getting almost all my music (I think maybe one or two albums from Amazon in-between) from them. I can get straightforward notifications, I can get whatever format I want and I can stream the whole album as much as I want before buying it (though I never listened to one fully before buying it – or deciding against it).

And not to forget that I can often choose my own price (when I was a student I sometimes paid less, nowadays I usually pay a bit more)

Yep, Bandcamp is my favorite store for music as well.

Bandcamp for sure. The radio/streaming landscape is extremely bleak for anything that isn't Top 40 material. Fortunately, Bandcamp has become the go-to community to upload stuff that's more indie feeling. As a result, it's the place to go now if you're looking for music off the beaten path. Bandcamp also has a weekly newsletter highlighting artists across many different genres, from African guitar music from the '60s, post-punk and alternative rock, minimal electronic, indie hiphop, you name it.

Often on Bandcamp and GOG.

* https://bandcamp.com

* https://gog.com

Some other stores that you can find DRM-free FLAC in:

* https://www.7digital.com

* https://us.7digital.com

* https://www.hdtracks.com

* https://murfie.com

* https://www.junodownload.com

* https://store.tidal.com

* https://www.prestomusic.com

* https://www.prostudiomasters.com

* https://www.jamendo.com

As someone who (happily) pays for music and needs it in a high quality format, I really like Bandcamp. After buying say 10 tracks I notice on my credit card statement 3 or 4 transactions, one for each of the labels the tracks belong to, so I know the artist should end up with a fair cut.

I buy FLAC from digital stores pretty regularly and my favorites are (obligatory) Bandcamp, 7digital, HDTracks, and TIDAL. I also end up buying physical cd's pretty often and just ripping them to FLAC (this is actually my preferred method, I only go to digital if I have to). Alternatively, I've heard good things about murfie, but have never personally used it.

Beatport and Bandcamp, at least.

Though obligatory fuck Beatport, they only give you 24 hours to download what you buy and then the only way to download again is to rebuy, or beg. Even a FLAC is only ~30MB, there's no need to be this cheap.

Bandcamp, for one. CDBaby used to offer flac downloads for 1.5x the cost of lossy, IIRC. Not sure what their role here is anymore.

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