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I buy my music however I can get it. I buy vintage vinyl for older music (Iron Maiden, Uriah Heep, The Damned, etc), new vinyl if the art is awesome or the mix is cool (The Sword's High Country vinyl sounds super deep and ancient in a really cool way vs the CD release). I mostly buy digital FLAC from Bandcamp or other sources for direct-from-artist music just because it's easier and with less physical overhead than a CD (plus FLAC is at least as good as CD even though it's not technically bit-identical). But I still buy CDs when I need to, and I don't complain about it. It takes like 3-5 minutes to rip into high-quality FLAC (or OGG if I'm using a device with less storage) and I can always return to the CD if I somehow lose the files - and since I literally never use my CDs aside from a source for FLAC rips they are essentially as durable as I am.
tl;dr - buy the music however you can find it and in a format that best fits your needs. I personally dislike AAC and other medium-bitrate compressed audio but if you find iTunes sounds just fine to your ears then I say enjoy the hell out of your music!
Music is personal, and how you store it or buy it or listen to it should also be personal.
Jan 31, 2018
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