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Many of my friends use it. I'm old school and just keep a collection of mp3s on multiple devices for backup.
It's all but impossible to purchase an mp3 anymore. Anywhere you can theoretically buy music does everything it can to lock you in to their ecosystem and prevent you from accessing your music outside of it.
Used CDs (or local library). Ripping software. Super easy. Or just buy from Amazon and download your files to local.
People sell whole collections or discographies on ebay too, I've had good luck with that. CD, then rip them. I don't give a flying fuck what law says if I own the media I'm going to rip it.
For music that I really like, for artists that I really appreciate, I do look for ways to support them, because buying used does not.