How do I buy music not carried by iTunes Store (for my iPhone)

There are songs or albums I may want to buy that are not carried by the iTunes store. 
Is there an easy way I can use my iPhone to buy a song that is not in the iTunes Store and add it to the Music library on the iPhone and later sync to iTunes on the iMac? I'm not that techie, but I would imagine there are easier ways to get non-iTunes songs to the iPhone.
The only way I know how to do it currently is buy a CD and copy the CD to iTunes or buy an audio file using the iMac then import it to iTunes, then sync to the iPhone.
In otherwords,
Vendor -> iPhone/Music -> Sync to iMac/iTunes
instead of
Vendor -> Download to iMac and Import to iTunes -> Sync to iPhone/Music
~~~Thanks, Teellbee

You must buy it on your computer, then import it into iTunes, then sync it to the iPhone. To import into iTunes you can just drag and drop it onto the iTunes app.

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