asiatorrents.me or kat.ph are my two back up places besides piratebay.
I mostly download them for my dad. He used to watch them on the movie screen and misses the old days. Right now I'm getting him the full collection of Zatoichi. Zatoichi is a pretty awesome series if you have never seen it before. I think I got him sword of doom recently but I actually don't have any time to watch these movies
I have hard encode the subs before I burn them onto a dvd. I find that XviD4PSP 5 works the best. I've had problems in the past with others that would move the subtitles out of synch.
Also, there are tons of substitle sites. If I need to find one for a movie I would google this example.
subs Breaking.Bad.S05E02.Madrigal.HDTV.x264-FQM.mp4
you pretty much need the monikers of the rippper in the search ie"HDTV.x264-FQM" or you might get a differently timed sub for a different rip.