Beatport
Audiojelly
Juno Download

... uh, are you sure? 'Cause a friend of mine told me they didn't allow that. He had to contact customer support after he bought an album and the artist added a bonus track and he couldn't redownload it. :\

The music industry will never let you buy what you actually want, it's not a part of their business plan. Unfortunately. Perhaps at some point they'll be forced to out of financial necessity.

But, in the meantime...

You've stumbled upon a door where your mind is the key. There are none who will lend you guidance; these trials are yours to conquer alone. Entering here will take more than mere logic and strategy, but the criteria are just as hidden as what they reveal. Find yourself, and you will find the very thing hidden behind this page. Beyond here is something like a utopia - beyond here is...

This is a mirage.

It may depend on the artist's album settings, but I've always been able to redownload the stuff I've bought. (Only about two dozen albums, so they might all have similar "download" settings.)

If GOG expanded in this market, I would once again buy digital music. I'd buy hundreds of dollars more in music than I would games. I'm game saturated at the moment. But music I can never have enough of!

GIG, a sister site to GOG. Selling music then movies?? I'd be all over that!!

LOL me too.

iTunes is still my favorite music store (because I have an odd taste in music, tried amazon, emusic, bandcamp, beatport etc.) and it offers a library with unlimited download...expensive though.

Beatport and Juno are for Djs, you pay more for the music because you can play it in the club.

@Jaime Are you sure that Criterion doesn't sell Chelsea Girls?

Yeah, I checked their site. They don't ship internationally, as far as I lnow, but they're still worth a look if one wants to find out if there's a DVD version of a certain movie out there.

Thanks for the tip, though.

You can get the music in various quality...

... if you can call the MP3 format quality.

It's sad right, that so few have actually figured this out? It's so simple: offer everything but the price benefit from piracy (easy availability and access) and add some extra things like a permanent locker/shelf/whatever, syncing options, I don't know, anything to *improve* on what piracy offers, and you're good. But noooo: from an article about Game of Thrones piracy: It's like they're actively trying to not make money.
(article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/05/09/hbo-has-only-itself-to-blame-for-record-game-of-thrones-piracy/ )

Loads of music sites are like GOG, but there aren't any movie sites like that.

That said, I use any website that sells the music I like, since it's not often on iTunes (or if it is, it's exclusively sold on iTunes Denmark or something). 7digital is quite good.

Obligatory Oatmeal comic reference.