[Krythor]

I haven't looked into it or tried it myself, so I'm ignorant of a few aspects of buying digital music, but even with the ability to re-download for free, the song still does not "exist" as yours.

Hard copies get lost, stolen or damaged in most circumstances because people are careless, and you can go home and create your own backups, hard or digital, in any case. I also enjoy the care and detail that goes into packaging, and I am someone who likes to sit and listen to things from start to finish, so the whole aesthetic of the album as an art form appeals to me. Buying songs for a dollar drains that part of the joy out of it.

Can you purchase digital songs in a lossless format? That's not a rhetorical question, I genuinely don't know; I always assumed not.