Mavericks is corrupt

Trying to download Mavericks; it keeps saying the file is corrupt. My time machine backups are gone. What do I do?

These are two separate issues. Most importantly:
My time machine backups are gone.
If you don't have backups, that's first priority. No installing Mavericks for you until you have a good set of backups! For that matter, no doing anything for you until you have a good set of backups. Since one possibility here is that you have a problem with your hard drive, you need to act extremely fast and hope that none of your data is damaged.
Trying to download Mavericks; it keeps saying the file is corrupt.
Once you have the backups taken care of, there are several things that could cause this kind of thing. One is a corrupt hard drive, so repair the hard drive with Disk Utility. Another is a problem with your network connection that is corrupting the data, so try downloading on another network. It could also be caused by some third-party software you have installed, so if all else fails, try downloading while in safe mode. It's also always possible that a transient problem on Apple's end was causing the problem, in which case it should be cured by the time you're trying again.

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