Music

i go about 50/50 between CD and bandcamp. I never got into vinyl, though i can appreciate the physicality of it. That being said, i do listen to a fair amount of stuff on youtube or spotify, especially when exploring new artists but also for stuff that i just haven't bought

I prefer to buy and download my music. I buy a ton from bandcamp. For music that I cannot buy I might sail the high seas. I do own a few vinyls but those are of my favorite albums.

Admittedly I go straight to one of the streaming services, but for smaller bands I like who are on bandcamp, I’ll use that to buy their stuff and throw it on my plex/jellyfin. I am also trying to cultivate a local music library again after finding my iTunes library from 2006 lol.

Streaming services for casual listening, but I have an archive on a home theater PC of music I use for my college radio show with each song in mp3 format.

I have a large vinyl record collection. I think I got the bug for it all from my Dad!

But for digital, I just use Newpipe. Every playlist, full album etc works just perfectly through it, ad free.

Mostly Spotify for my listening. I listen almost exclusively to full albums, but often will let the autoplay continue to see if there's anything I like.

Once in a while I will listen to BBC 6 Music. Have discovered a lot of artists there that I love.

I probably obtain music in just about every conceivable way possible. Sometimes I'm listening on YouTube for city pop uploads, other times it's SoundCloud for weird obscure indie tracks. Sometimes I'll do some soul seeking to flesh out my local collection of FLACs for my iPod or Strawberry, or I'll pop into Bandcamp to find hidden gems. I also buy a fair bit of used vinyl from Discogs, and I'll occasionally hit up importCDs for the occasional budget-friendly Tatsuro Yamashita album. I even hunt around at local thrift stores to add to my cassette and CD collections, which have both grown to a fairly substantial size. Sometimes indie labels like Light in the Attic will get city pop reissues that aren't all that expensive, and I've bought a passable quality cassette from them before. I've been working on getting a thrown-together component Hi-fi setup from a bunch of thrift store scores, and it actually sounds and works quite well. I have a massive stack of portable CD players, and a trusty cassette walkman that has really decent W+F for what it is. Aside from MD (so far), I guess you could say I'm interested in diversifying my music-listening portfolio.

I'm mostly on Tidal. I like the higher quality and the increased pay-out options. If I really like the music, I'll either buy it on vinyl or Bandcamp, especially if it's a smaller artist

Torrents, Soundcloud Downloader with subscription and YT Music.

Radio, believe me or not. I try to fish on some indie radios. Also, through podcast or YT: I like when they tell you the story or meaning or help you understand in any way. It helps me enjoy music. Then is easy to pull the threat to jump from one artist to the next.

Then I buy CD on their official website, but don't really listen to them.