The problem for me here in Australia, is that many sites won't sell me the albums I am interested in. They have them and sell them, but mostly only to the USA and a few other places.
It took me a few years to find good legit sources. I'd been wanting to swap to just buying digital music files for ages, but it proved to be difficult to find a good source. I am talking about full quality, so WAV or FLAC or similar. I have too many physical CDs, so needed to swap to a digital version.
As I said in an earlier post, the three for me are Bandcamp, Qobuz and ZDigital, and I primarily use Qobuz, despite them being more expensive most of the time. I will buy from the other two if I can, though ZDigital is my least favorite, despite often being cheaper.
I wish Bandcamp had more of what I like, despite their painful pricing regime, where you never know the true price until you get to PayPal ... the price often starts off real cheap and then changes two more times, each more expensive than the previous.
I've been lucky with Bandcamp a few times, where an artist I follow briefly has their latest album on Bandcamp for a short while only. So timing is everything. The only artist I follow, that has a significant presence on Bandcamp, is RODRIGO Y GABRIELA.
_Auster_: Interesting. In Apple's license agreement, they explicitly say there are DRM-free contents in their music store. Let's see how it goes further on.
The way I recall it, is that you can only get their DRM-Free lossy format, unless you subscribe to their music club and pay the annual fee, which apparently then gives you access to the DRM-Free lossless versions. At least that was touted the case at one point, but may have changed since they started a streaming service.
I never did subscribe so never found out. In fact, I have only ever bought a handful of singles and a couple of rare albums from iTunes, many years ago. I subsequently re-bought those two albums as physical CDs when I finally found a source.
