I’m a big believer in buying whole albums - the full artistic document.

In this moment, it’s usually cheapest to buy on used CD, and usually less hassle to rip then to fully download files that you purchase. I don’t like to do that for artists I like since used means they get no money, but for very old or random stuff, I’ll do it that way.

Eventually the used media prices will go up - there simply won’t be enough in the pipeline.

Vinyl has this rep as being higher quality - technically that’s true, but it requires an impossibly high standard of playback tools to get that quality out of it. I’d like to see music distributors offering higher-quality digital output instead.