> Should I buy the CD or a download? > Answer: The CD. It is very hard for them to make money from streaming. For what it's worth, and I am not a musician and

> Should I buy the CD or a download? > Answer: The CD. It is very hard for them to make money from streaming. For what it's worth, and I am not a musician and maybe every deal is different, the people I know who earn a living from playing music have told me that buying the physical CD or buying a digital download from an online store like iTunes or HDTracks nets them within a dollar or two of the same payout. There's a substantial, as we all know, earnings difference between buying a CD and streaming the artist on a platform like Spotify or Apple Music. But the difference between buying the CD and buying a set of MP3s or FLACs or the like is, supposedly, far smaller. (If your preferred artist is on BandCamp, I've been told it's even smaller or almost to the point that the CD makes them less money than the download.)