Haven't you people heard of music stores?
I guess I can't understand all this--being around long before the Internet was even conceived.
I used to have to get off my butt, drive to the music store (or beg my parents for a ride, or worse yet, RIDE MY BICYCLE), see if they had a piece in stock, and usually I had to have the piece ordered and come back in a week or two to pick it up. Then I have it forever and usually the volumes contained other pieces as well.