Everyone loves a good Criterion Collection or Shout Factory release. But what’s a good website from which to buy digital media? Do you buy digital media? Or do you just buy physical and rip? Or do you just sail the seas?
Games seem to be itch.io or Steam, maybe a Humble Bundle or Epic/GOG exclusive here and there. But what about movies and music? What about books and audiobooks?
I pirate movies if they’re not on streaming services I have access to via sharing someone’s password, I use Spotify for music, and I go to the library for books and audiobooks.
Give me shit for using Spotify; IDC. It’s literally the most convenient way of listening to music. If it was easier to find and download it via piracy, I would just do that.
Yeah, I feel like I’m pretty entrenched into Spotify. It works with just about any device I might try to connect to. Plus discovery is made fairly simple, even if it is driven largely by opaque algorithms.
They keep raising the rates though, and the artists aren’t making any more as a result, so I’m keeping an eye out for alternatives