Where do you get your non-electronic music from?

Do you normally buy the CD's/Vinyl for the sound quality or just get it from iTunes or something?

I'm curious because I'm not sure if paying for 256kbps is really worth it so I just end up torrenting it.

I mainly use Bandcamp and streaming services. If the CD is cheap, or the art is super lush, I might get order it. 

same place i get my electronic music from.

Do you mean where do I discover it or where do I actually obtain it?

Like 95% of my musical discoveries are on the internet, for metal and heavier stuff there's a few metal blogs/sites I follow. Other random stuff I get from recommendations in sharethreads on /mu/ or genre-specific subreddits.

As for obtaining it, most these days comes from just downloading it, wether it be goggling an album, sharethreads, or buying digitally, a lot of metal I get from realmofmetal. As for physical copies I get a lot from a shop called The Electric Fetus or Extreme Noise for heavier stuff, for hip-hop and instrumental beats you can't top Fifth Element which is owned by Rhymesayers Records but stocks stuff from other labels, all three shops are in Minneapolis.

Floppy disc 

I use Norman a lot, although they kinda killed pay later, you still get credit back with Norman Points which build up fairly quickly.

Yeah electronic music sites like boomkat and bleep have high quality lossless downloads but if you want decent rips of rock or metal bands there seems no specialist sites for these so I get the cd from either discogs or amazon. I wanted a loseless rip of OMs Variation on a Theme on my High Definition Walkman so I had to get the cd off Discogs, thankfully most non electronic albums I'd ever need are sat upstairs in a massive stash. But yeah say if you wanted loseless versions of Bob Dylan, Ministry or Sonic Youth, you need to buy the cd as no site.....ahhhh I dunno. I'm off for a snooze and a few days holiday of watmm. Bleah!!

Unless I have to buy it elsewhere, I almost always buy from iTunes/Bandcamp for the convenience factor.

256k iTunes encodings are essentially transparent.  Some people around here like to think they can hear a difference between a high-bitrate lossy encode vs a lossless one, but would be hard pressed to back it up with an objective test (i.e., abx) that controls for confirmation bias and all those other fun variables.

Whether or not you pay for it is another matter but remember even good artists have to eat.

  On 8/29/2016 at 5:50 PM, Kidrodi said:

Do you normally buy the CD's/Vinyl for the sound quality or just get it from iTunes or something?

I'm curious because I'm not sure if paying for 256kbps is really worth it so I just end up torrenting it.

Do you mean non-digital? In that case, everywhere and in most formats (CD, tape, vinyl). Depends on what is offered and where. Bandcamp, record stores, online mailorders (Clone, Rush Hour, Bleep, Norman Records, bunch of others), at gigs. Seems obvious?

If you buy music, you should be able to get at least a 320kbps mp3, which is more than enough for your average listener (read: non-anal OCD audiophiles). It's always worth it to buy the music to support the people who made it. Stating the obvious here, but yeah.

Also, always avoid iTunes.

  On 8/29/2016 at 7:06 PM, Herr Jan said:

 

  On 8/29/2016 at 5:50 PM, Kidrodi said:

Do you normally buy the CD's/Vinyl for the sound quality or just get it from iTunes or something?

I'm curious because I'm not sure if paying for 256kbps is really worth it so I just end up torrenting it.

Do you mean non-digital? In that case, everywhere and in most formats (CD, tape, vinyl). Depends on what is offered and where. Bandcamp, record stores, online mailorders (Clone, Rush Hour, Bleep, Norman Records, bunch of others), at gigs. Seems obvious?

 

If you buy music, you should be able to get at least a 320kbps mp3, which is more than enough for your average listener (read: non-anal OCD audiophiles). It's always worth it to buy the music to support the people who made it. Stating the obvious here, but yeah.

 

Also, always avoid iTunes.

 

What I mean is: I use Boomkat, Bleep... for electronic music cause I can get it on Flac and what have you. But if I want, let's say a Hip Hop album iTunes and Amazon seem to be the only option to get it digitally as far as I know.

Bandcamp (which offers .flac) and/or Spotify, the latter for discovering music and listening to better known artists. 

I buy cassettes often and in rare cases for favorites I splurge on vinyl or CD-R's.

Boomkat innit. 

I've been loading up off Boomkat since Brexit. 

slsk

direct from labels like http://www.anothertimbre.com/index.html and http://erstwhilerecords.com/ -- also Bandcamp, though I've had a couple negative experiences ordering physical copies (miscommunication, lack of proper service etc.) -- But mostly direct from the label, if possible.

also, Squidco is a good US distributor for modern improv/noise/free jazz/composition/EAI etc.

Drag City as well. They don't charge for shipping on CDs or cassettes.. not sure about vinyl though

record label webstores, cannedbamp.

slsk and vinyl

I'll buy mp3s sometimes, especially for independent stuff. Bandcamp is great. But usually if I'm gonna pay for music I just go for vinyl.

Thrift shops, milk crates, Discogs and other people's garbage.

Apple Music. It has many things. When it hasn't something, I buy or steal the files elsewhere and add them to the Apple Music library.

I like the streaming for the convenience... but it's well known that especially smaller artists make only laughable pocket change money from that. In order to support artists I go to gigs tho,

^ or buy merch

nah..no apfel musik..if i see/hear something @ boomkat and the like, i'll look up the label. some have their own e-shop, often decent priced and with higher quality formats at no extra charge. otherwise enthusiast blogs with high quality rips of low commercial ancient vinyls..finders, keepers

  On 8/31/2016 at 8:10 AM, RSP said:

Thrift shops, milk crates, Discogs and other people's garbage.

Scored most of my tapes this way. Also record stores, especially distro stuff from local artists. The good ones usually have someone happy to recommend niche stuff the way watmmers do, that's a lost art I suppose.

Also merch tables. I usually buy stuff IRL anytime I see an artist I like play.

  On 8/29/2016 at 6:52 PM, beerwolf said:

Yeah electronic music sites like boomkat and bleep have high quality lossless downloads but if you want decent rips of rock or metal bands there seems no specialist sites for these so I get the cd from either discogs or amazon. I wanted a loseless rip of OMs Variation on a Theme on my High Definition Walkman so I had to get the cd off Discogs, thankfully most non electronic albums I'd ever need are sat upstairs in a massive stash. But yeah say if you wanted loseless versions of Bob Dylan, Ministry or Sonic Youth, you need to buy the cd as no site.....ahhhh I dunno. I'm off for a snooze and a few days holiday of watmm. Bleah!!

Yes this is what I meant. I usually prefer to get the digital but the bitrates on the usual sites are meh, so I guess CD would be the option. I just wish the shipping costs weren't so expensive, fucking hell