What's a Good Way to Buy Music Collections?

Ripping music is what a lot of people did a decade ago. These days most people just stream.

hdtracks.com sells hi-res downloads

Someone offering large collections on thumb drives or other storage devices is probably illegally selling music without royalties being paid to artists and publishers.

larryi

buying/selling used lps or cds gives nothing to anyone except the seller, Post Office, and fees such as eBay/PayPal.

As always, the entire chain of income must rely on ’new’ releases, in todays formats, which will be freely shared .....

not the same issue, but a Pet Peeve of mine is buying items like used cars, where ’new’ taxes must be paid for items that taxes were originally paid in full at original sale. Now, taxes are collected on used sales on eBay.

If the seller of a large collection of music that was ripped from CDs also delivered the CDs to the buyer of the collection that would be fine.  But, if the seller makes multiple copies of what was ripped, that is a copyright violation.  It is "fair use" to take your personal collection and convert it to another medium for your own use, but, you cannot sell or even give away that converted collection.  If I made copies by ripping and I gave away the CDs that were copied, that would be a violation too. 

If I did not did not give away or sell that collection and the recipient wants that music, that person would have to buy that music and that is fair for the artist or the owner of the copyright.