What's a Good Way to Buy Music Collections?

Try Bandcamp if your artists are available there since the artist gets a larger share of the profits on that website.

@kota1 Upsampling adds nothing to the sound quality of a CD  44.1/16 file - except bloat, that is.  The line...

"selectable Real-Time DSD Conversion converts MP3, WAV, and FLAC music files into DSD-quality audio" 

...is just absolute nonsense.

@jhnnrrs 

Welcome to the forum, have you auditioned the Onkyo DP-X1? 

There are probably a lot of people who transferred their CD collections to one of those storage devices, have not touched the physical discs for years, and would be happy to sell them. It might be just the disc and the booklet, but that would make it cheaper, particularly because they'd be less saleable to dealers. People might even be willing to sell the cabinet along with them. No legal problem selling physical CDs either.

I think you’re probably heading into uncharted territory here. I’ve never seen or heard of people selling ripped music collections except those that may be included with purchasing a used component with the music already loaded on to it.

 
@yyzsantabarbara  I stream and still rip music to my NAS, I also download and I think there are a lot of people who do. Owning copies of Music is not gone yet.