He sells those too.

Yeah the point is if you want actual ownership of the music you buy then digital is not the way to go.

I can purchase audio files in 24-bit 192KHz with no DRM from his website. Although it's not a physical item like a CD, I can in practical terms do whatever I want with such a file once I've bought it, including burning it to a compact disc (or even Blu-Ray audio). In what sense is that worse than a purchase of a 16-bit 44.1 KHz CD?

Huh? I buy (not rent) digital downloads of lossless music all the time (phish). Note: that's not ownership of music. The band owns the copyright of the live recording and the digital download is really just a physical license that happens to permit you to listen to it if you have physical possession of it.

I'm telling you it's an inferior way to do it not that you cannot do it. You're running around worrying about DRM when that's not even something you need to worry about on physical copy like a record.

Huh? None of my downloads have DRM. Why would I ever buy music with DRM?

Dude go back and read the rest of the comments before interjecting with stupid responses. You're not following the full conversation here. You read one comment in the middle of the string and inserted yourself into the conversation. You don't even understand what's being discussed.

I mean, a DRM-free uncompressed file will be yours as long as you can back it up.. a CD will delaminate in a few decades, vinyl will warp, tapes demagnetize..

Where do you think files are stored bud? Do you think drives don't deteriorate?

You do not maintain or own cloud storage. You might want to rad the fine print on your cloud storage service and who actually owns that data.

a record that deteriorates each time you play in (albeit in what most consider to be sonically pleasing way) ... and was probably pressed from a digital master, meaning DAC has already happened several times..