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I'm really glad Bandcamp exists as a place where I can buy high-quality, DRM-free music, with a reasonable revenue share and no-bullshit experience. This makes me like them even more!

If something isn't on Bandcamp these days, I often don't even bother messing around with the alternatives and just pirate it.

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This. I hope Bandcamp stays like this forever.

There is also HD Tracks

https://www.hdtracks.com/

And Bleep

https://bleep.com/

Seconding Bleep - who also continue to sell music on physical formats. A marvellous store.

+1, Bleep is a shop created by Warp Records. Home of many artists I love

Bleep still does this thing where they skip to the next track after a minute of preview. This was and still is the real great thing about Bandcamp: They treat you like an adult and let you preview in OK quality for as long and often as you like. And if people only listen to previews and never buy - fine, those people would never buy anyway, whether the preview is skipped after a minute or not.

I don't mind paying for my music but $18 to download one album is absurd. As much as I dislike Amazon I can download DRM free music for a lot cheaper.

I wish HDTracks hadn't gone entirely over to their "music downloader application." Bandcamp is far preferable to me in that they spit out a FLAC link at the conclusion of the transaction.

Well, HDTracks' target audience is middle-aged audiophiles and dadrock enthusiasts, so it's natural that their price point will be higher than on the indie end of the spectrum (aka Bandcamp). Also, there will be more middlemen chipping off their share when you buy from HDtracks.

I'd add https://boomkat.com/ to your list of options.

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