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Best Online Music Retailers

OK, I did a quick search and could not find a thread on Agon dedicated to this topic, so apologies if this is a rehash. What are your favorite online music retailers and why? Best for physical media - records, CD's, XR and Gold CD's, SACD's and music videos? Best for Downloads? Very curious where others get their music online. Not interested in hearing about garage sales and brick and morter stores here - that is for another thread.
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sfar
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I haven't used enough other sites for downloads to say it's the best but I've been very happy with http://www.emusic.com for good quality mp3 downloads.

There are no rights restrictions on the files, the selection is pretty broad, you can see recommendations from other members and from 'experts' and downloads automatically sync with iTunes and Windows Media Player.
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mofimadness
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Here's a few:

http://store.acousticsounds.com/index.cfm

http://www.elusivedisc.com/

http://www.musicdirect.com/

http://www.soundstagedirect.com/
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tpreaves
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A quick Google search will give you literally hundreds of places to buy music.Try it sometime.Along with Mofi's suggestions above,here a few others.

http://www.cduniverse.com/ lots of everything

http://www.cdbaby.com/ lots of new music

http://www.alligator.com/ lots of blues

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/ high quality recordings,shipping takes longer but everything I bought here is high quality

http://www.amazon.com/b/?ie=UTF8&node=5174&tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=3558531825&ref=pd_sl_73jhj0871i_e probably the largest online seller of all music
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A good place to find out of print discs is www.gemm.com, which is a kind of clearinghouse for a lot of mostly European music resellers. Often when I have been looking for an out of print disc it fetches two or three times as much on the Amazon used market as it does when you get into the European resellers. You can do search by media, etc. Has always been professional and quick.
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