Kind of janky but maybe something like this? https://soundclouddl.cc/ or something like this perhaps https://github.com/archisvaze/arcdlp if you just use a search engine to look up YouTube to MP3 or something to that nature you can find a lot of different results. I think they even make browser extensions as well.
How would someone, hypothetical, do that ripping part?
Kind of janky but maybe something like this? https://soundclouddl.cc/ or something like this perhaps https://github.com/archisvaze/arcdlp if you just use a search engine to look up YouTube to MP3 or something to that nature you can find a lot of different results. I think they even make browser extensions as well.
Not YouTube, Soulseek. Nicotine frontend. Use a VPN.
I buy the discs from my disc shop then use soulseek to download the discs already ripped.
Other times I simply buy their discs from bandcamp so I get the digital files directly.