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30 lines
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<p>Recently I was discovering some music from Scott Stapp's solo career,
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in particular his song "Mary's Crying"<sup><a href="#r1" >[1]</a></sup>,
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and I've been searching for a place where I could purchase his music.
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Unfortunately, this is not so easy nowadays. I do not have an Amazon
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account, nor Google Play, nor Apple iTunes, and I wish to keep it that
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way. What I've been searching for is a platform where I can purchase
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music without creating an account, and receiving the actual audio files
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- ideally in a lossless format like FLAC. The only platform I've found
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that meets this condition would be
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Bandcamp<sup><a href="#r2" >[2]</a></sup>, but this platform mostly has
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<i>indie</i> artists.</p>
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<p>Overall, this makes obtaining music legally (i.e. not pirating) much
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more difficult for those who wish to avoid these large platforms and
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having a dozen different accounts for the same thing. It's no surprise
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either that, especially with the COVID situation, many physical music
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stores are either closing or difficult to get to. As such, it is not
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more freedom or choices that we're gaining, but rather we're losing
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them. At least losing any actual meaningful choices.</p>
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<label id="r1" >[1]</label>
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<a
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw2nQOHc9bc"
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target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw2nQOHc9bc</a>
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<br />
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<label id="r2" >[2]</label>
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<a
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href="https://bandcamp.com/"
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target="_blank" >https://bandcamp.com/</a>
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