Listening to this album in FLAC is not an exercise in snobbery; it is an act of preservation. You are hearing the sweat of the percussionists on the dholak , the intonation of the violins in the background, and the deliberate placement of a tear falling onto a piano key.
When you type into a search engine, you must navigate a minefield of fake files. Many "FLAC" files circulating on torrent sites are simply upscaled MP3s (a 128kbps MP3 converted to FLAC is still low quality). Devdas -2002 - FLAC-