This seems to be a new trend with unsigned bands these days. Whenever they release their new album the first site they will release the album on is at bandcamp. First of all, I think the site is pretty terrible to begin with. I hate the way it looks and the sound quality is very bad. I also hate the way bands price the albums on there too. It’s good that you can stream them and listen to them on there in it’s entirety but it’s the pricing options on there I don’t like. Secondly, another reason the site bothers me is that when you are about to release an album, don’t you want your music to be yours? Why would you release it on there first when you can just upload the album on your website?
When I get a new demo CD made… I will never release it at bandcamp or Itunes or any of that garbage. I’ll figure out a way to release my demo right here on this blog, and I’ll make the demo downloadable for free too.
Bandcamp is just a bad idea that musicians do and a huge mistake to release your albums on there first. Gone are the days when bands would exclusively release their albums on their official website. Bandcamp certainly has taken over the spotlight of CDBaby and I never liked that site either!
The only places I’ll upload my music are at sites such as Reverbnation, soundclick or soundcloud. I would upload them to youtube in audio video as well!
I just think unsigned bands & artists forcing people to buy their music online is just bad. I would never do it. I’ll talk a lot more about this tomorrow.
Kev
K'Brocking 
Whatever bad quality you hear is the fault of the artist, not bandcamp. Bandcamp makes you upload in losless formats.
Nope. The bad quality is bandcamp all the way. If you look around you’ll see complaints from bands that their sound quality got bad after uploading it on there and their original recording wasn’t like that.
Kev
Oh, and the music is still yours, and it’s automatically copyrighted when you use it. Plus, you have the option to make the downloads free or whatever price you wish. It’s really a great tool.
That’s just your opinion and I’ll stand by mine. Bandcamp fuckin’ sucks. I’ll never use it.
Kev
This really puzzles me, but a year ago Bandcamp was awesome, everything I uploaded sounded just like what is on my Hard drive. Now though, it sounds squishy, best way to describe it, I’ve heard this many times and it makes me annoyed every time. What is going on? Are they skimping on the quality to save bandwidth? I thought it was my imagination until I uploaded to reverbnation, 128k wasn’t as good quality but the squish was gone in my drums.