I don't know exactly how many of us a left out there. But whenever I can, I buy CD then rip it to my laptop (it's old enough to still have a built in CD drive)/

But when that's not possible, I use other means. I never got into Torrents, but I use a few blogs to find albums that I'm looking for an rip them from there. It's kind of a pain, because most of them use the third party hosting sites, which are riddled with ads and malware and shit. But since I mostly seek out obscure shit, I've found a couple that use much less intrusive hosts.