Playing animations by UUID

Been doing some reading and found that llStartAnimation says you need the animation file in the inventory of the prim that going to animate you. This would mean that you would need to reupload each animation that you have the UUID for. So ripping off and entire AO wouldn't be cheap but would be still a lot cheaper than paying 2000L$ for some of them. Also most vendors seem to charge around 80L$ for a single animation

I suppose the best idea would be to mix and match animations form several vendors and make your own using a freebie HUD