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Recently I was discovering some music from Scott Stapp's solo career, +in particular his song "Mary's Crying"[1], +and I've been searching for a place where I could purchase his music. +Unfortunately, this is not so easy nowadays. I do not have an Amazon +account, nor Google Play, nor Apple iTunes, and I wish to keep it that +way. What I've been searching for is a platform where I can purchase +music without creating an account, and receiving the actual audio files +- ideally in a lossless format like FLAC. The only platform I've found +that meets this condition would be +Bandcamp[2], but this platform mostly has +indie artists.

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Overall, this makes obtaining music legally (i.e. not pirating) much +more difficult for those who wish to avoid these large platforms and +having a dozen different accounts for the same thing. It's no surprise +either that, especially with the COVID situation, many physical music +stores are either closing or difficult to get to. As such, it is not +more freedom or choices that we're gaining, but rather we're losing +them. At least losing any actual meaningful choices.

+ + +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw2nQOHc9bc +
+ +https://bandcamp.com/