Ironically, nowadays, it’s easier to get the LP. I buy them directly at the concert, and they come with a bandcamp voucher so you can also download the album.
For more popular band, you now get very nice albums fulls of goodies, which also feature a CD


A distribution is gaussian until proven otherwise. Is a great shortcut into statistic. It’s also why something as simple as the Chi^2 test works very often. No need to tune a complex likelyhood function or set a neural network, you can use a simple method which in many case is good enough