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Something current: all the albums I bought this weekend have "(pre-order)" in the file name even though it's apparently the complete album.

the headline sounds wrong: If you don't save and archive paid bandcamp downloads, you've lost either way, no matter how the company is doing.

The good thing about bandcamp is that you have the option to do so. More importantly you have the possibility to get lossless music files.

If you download from bandcamp then currently only in flac and backup the results with programs like restic [1] just as you should back up all other data.

You should always make a second copy fo any further changes if you rewrite tags or encode to other formats like mp3.

[1] https://restic.net