I’m coming into this area as a practical and philosophical result of:
- me wanting to own my music
- CDs are barely being made
2.1. If they are - they’re not being shipped to my corner of the world - Torrenting often failed me in terms of variety.
However - I am absolutely ignorant about equipment, maintainance, and know-hows of the audiophile world.


I know this isn’t the answer, but you mentioned torrents. Try soulseek, it’s modern day Napster. Nicotine+ is a great gui over soulseek app.