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Not quite true anymore, publishers have pretty much given up on DRM for purchased music :)
Neither Apple's iTunes store nor amazon's store (although to be fair, I haven't used amazon, so I'm not 100 % sure about them) use DRM on purchased music, so you can just take the music files and use them in any way you want. In my personal opinion though, rather than use the iTunes store or amazon, I'd recommend you to try the qobuz store, which is DRM-free and is the only one I know of (ignoring bandcamp, which doesn't get music from regular distributors) that provides lossless audio.
HDtracs also sells some stuff losslessly. Though one thing I've noticed I've noticed on both Qobuz and HDtracs is tha, in addition to only having some stuff losslessly, the availability of lossless varies by region. The same album might be sold lossless in one region and only lossy in another region.
Didn't know about them before, thanks for sharing!
That's weird, since as far as I can tell, qobuz doesn't offer lossy downloads at all (I've heard they used to, but stopped. Maybe there are some regions where they're still offering it?)
Hmm, maybe I was misremembering. On second thought I think it was actually 7digital I was thinking of that did the regional lossless, I forgot about that one. For example, the same album on Swedish and American stores:
https://se.7digital.com/artist/taylor-swift/release/the-life-of-a-showgirl-explicit-60581637?f=20%2C19%2C12%2C16%2C17%2C9%2C2
https://us.7digital.com/artist/taylor-swift/release/the-life-of-a-showgirl-explicit-60581637?f=20%2C19%2C12%2C16%2C17%2C9%2C2