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thewayne: I think we'll be seeing RIP: Bandcamp in the not distant future

I noticed today while browsing my online collection of prior purchases on Bandcamp, that songs from a particular artist were missing. The artist's page no longer shows up on the site, so they likely closed their account.
Apparently when an artist does that, any items you purchased from them are no longer be downloadable or accessible online.
I always download my purchases right away, so didn't lose anything. But it was a surprise to me that they would disappear from my online account like that without any warning or notification. So, beware.

Buying MP3s on Amazon is such a hassle now that they no longer have the MP3 cart, and you have to purchase each item as a separate step, and with multiple payment transactions. I only buy digital music on Amazon now when I can't find it via other purchase mediums.

After buying and downloading a certain number of items, their site also ends up giving an error message about having reached the download limit (which Amazon Customer Help says is a glitch), and that I need to download any further items from my Music Library. Going through the webpage menus and links, I couldn't find any download links on the Music Library pages.

For future reference, this is the page that has the download links:
https://music.amazon.com/recently/purchased