Has any tried losslessma.net?

[mansr]

No, this is not legit. It is an index of pirated music.

[mansr]

Well, Talk Like a Pirate Day is next week.

[mansr]

13 minutes ago, tmtomh said:

And many of the "how can it be that cheap?" paid-download sites were based in Russia because the country's copyright laws, written before the advent of internet file-sharing, had some kind of language or loophole that basically allowed these sites to pay a small royalty for each song into some Russian fund, without getting permission of the copyright holder and without having to negotiate payment amounts or deal with the mechanical royalty rates in that apply in the west.

IIRC, the law accidentally saw downloads classified as broadcast and thus only subject to licencing fees similar to how radio is handled in most countries. I believe that loophole is gone, but enforcement is probably still lax.