Bandcamp is good. quite, i think. bought music and a vinyl! (fred again)
Spotify rocks but dunno if can buy tracks. best ui, imo.
YouTube music is kinda alphastage. had my own tons and tons on Google Music that now are in YT Music, so kinda comfy fo me.
also tried Deezer (i think) don like it much

the tool, for me, is Beatport tho. heavy stuff that truly rocks. powerful. actually in l o v e. can also be a dj in 15 secs 🐽 (bought a bunch of tracks)

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Yes, but physical, so either in stores or from online retailers. Old school.

I used to buy a lot of CDs from my campus radio station donation box and my collection only grew when I had a short-lived volunteering post with them since their employees were allowed to take some rejected CDs for free.

Nowadays, I occasionally but them from a specialty shop right before Christmas, plus on a promotion over BandCamp.

I buy CD's still, but not as often as I used to. If something is really hard and/or expensive to find, I will buy it digitally, since I can easily copy it to a playable disc.

Not a huge fan of subscription services of any kind (the glorified rentals, anyway; stuff like Humble Choice is fine), so I haven't gone that route yet. I know I'm missing out on a lot of newer music as a result, but I'm okay with that as the rabbit hole can get overwhelming, and I already have a lot of music as is.

I'm light years away from any record stores (if those still exist), so I buy everything online, mainly from eBay or Amazon.

Bandcamp is my #1 stop for buying digital. Great for discovery, and there is tons of old indie stuff that went out of print years ago that has been re-released there. Plus all of the physical media options and merch that you can't get elsewhere. And they also give the artists a much bigger cut than most other platforms, so it's a win all around.

I used to buy a lot of physical CDs, but now I only do that if it is something that isn't available digitally (the discs were starting to take up too much space). I usually search eBay, Amazon or (occasionally) Discogs when I need to go that route.

Bandcamp and individual band stores, online.
A nearby record shop IRL

No now. I used to buy CD's when they were the thing. I still have my pirate copies and also the originals that I was able to buy or were given to me as gifts.
Oh... this reminds me of when I was 12 years old in 2007. My sister had bought a pirated CD with the best hits of Guns N' Roses. I heard them for the first time (or so I think, maybe I vaguely knew some song), and I asked to borrow it. But I was so afraid of having to borrow it from her every day (I thought she would be annoyed that I bothered her so much), that right after hearing it I hid it behind a stuffed animal. When I came back from school I heard it again. 😆😎🤟

I used to buy some CDs now and then, but now I have just switched fully to spotify..
I would love to get a turntable for vinyl records. But I am not sure when I will get around for that. Then I'd obviously would get back to buying vinyl records, but in the end digital does the job for me anyway.

My girlfriend is a musician and I am learning guitar myself, but we don't actually have any hi-fi music systems in our house... Don't know how that has come around, but we just have mid-range decent wireless headphones.. and that's pretty much it :D Our cars do have decent audio systems but nothing as fancy that Spotify couldn't do the trick. At least for now.

I buy vinyl exclusively and I mostly buy it when I'm on the store. Sadly, we don't have much going on the vinyl scene at Turkey but I still try to collect progressive rock, jazz and blues records

I do not.
I'm mostly stuck in the past so i listen to old songs.

No, because Spotify.

Spotify,YT Music and Qobuz streaming....You can buy music from Qobuz and Amazon.

I rarely buy music because I don't listen much to music (outside of the music heard in videogames I'm playing). If I want to hear some music I use YouTube. Sometimes I hear good music in a videogame and search, like and listen to it on YouTube.

I don't buy music anymore. Mostly I use Spotify or YouTube.

The only music I buy are soundtracks on Steam.

Ahhhh feels strange seeing you with another picture!

I used to buy a lot of CDs from metalcore bands, but now I have almost all of the ones I want, I only buy them if there's a big new release or a special edition. From the other genres I like, there are mostly only digital releases :(

I listen mostly on Spotify, but I recently got myself a record player - about a month ago - so now I'm going back through time buying all the records I've loved most over my 30-something years of life.

Vinyl records are expensive though! I only buy a few because:

1. I'm not rich and I can't just buy what I like.
2. I want listening to a record to be an experience; don't want to just listen to it once, go "that was pretty good" and then never think about it again.
3. When I was younger and only had a few CDs I knew every note of every song on every track on every album. Since using Spotify that's all changed, but I want it to be like that again.
4. Related to #1 - some of my favourite artists only seem to release vinyl in the US, or they're out of print now, and unless I spend stupid money I'm just not getting them.

So I only have 5 records so far. But I love them all!

I still do. For the artists I love. To support them mostly because Spotify kinda screws artists.

I actually donated a huge box of CDs to the public library today. It was a bitch to carry on my bike XD but it was worth it.

I actually had to stop and think about this for a moment because these days I mostly use youtube when I wanna listen to music, but technically I do buy music somewhat frequently, in the sense that I tend to buy soundtracks from steam.
I do frequent bandcamp but I don't think I've ever payed for any of the stuff I've downloaded cos a surprising amount of the stuff I like has the option to write "0" in the box asking for the price, and I'm too much of a cheapskate to not take something for free when given the option.
There's a good chunk of my mp3 collection that were downloaded from piracy sites during the 2000's that I can't be asked to replace by versions gotten from legit sources.
And finally, I do own a frankly overwhelming amount of CD's (literally hundreds) and some vinyls but between 80 & 90% off them where inherited from my dad when he passed and they take up so much space that I'm planning to get rid of most of them. Also most of them are music that I wouldn't listen to.

I used to buy a lot of CDs because I love to have a physical collection of everything (books, comics, movies, music), there's something very special about manipulating an actual item, going through a couple of ritualistic motions, and having it produce art. Clicking on a digital button just isn't the same thing.
But since I've started traveling and living out of a backpack, I unfortunately had to renounce all of that (well, trading it for a lot of other perks is probably more accurate) and now use almost exclusively Spotify, while cursing their random-that-is-not-random-at-all playing of my playlists...

I buy CD only for collection. I buy music on Bandcamp to support artists I like. And I use other streaming services for daily listening.

Currently I listen on Spotify, but one day I would like to buy a better audio set and start buying CDs.

Not anymore, i am stuck in time and listening "old" rock. :)

I buy a little.
mostly physical CD's at renaissance festivals... but I have bought some game OST's on steam to.
rest of my music collection is inherited. Why buy Queen today when I have it from the past.

also it took me way to long to notice you changed your pfp.

Yes if price are ok!
Stores I use:
Bandcamp
Steam (games OST)