People sell doujinshi or whatever at comiket in limited numbers, people that don't get a chance to buy them feel entitled to own them for free, and then pirate them. This isn't just a music thing anyway, it happens all the time with other things. Deciding you want to download an album after a band has (presumably) consciously removed that option and left you with another one though, still seems like a bit of a "fuck you" to me. I agree there are a ton of examples where you would want to pirate something rare / old / lost / etc. I know I can't win this argument, since the majority of people think this is fine, but I still think there is a gradient of examples, and this bandcamp one falls into the spectrum of putting what you want above what the artist's intentions are.
Point is, even though the reason for pro-What walks the fine line anti-DRM believers' arguments lie on, the argument makes more sense for music by being able to preserve all these albums albeit in a way where music companies wouldn't money of of it, they must have been able to save all these records deemed impossible or lost. There would have been a place where someone could stumble on the album, fall in love with it, and become a huge fan, maybe convert some more people as well. This is where What.CD would have come in handy: for albums like "F.A.N.G." and other albums of its ilk, they wouldn't have been lost to the sands of time. So, I went searching and ended up spending 2 hours of random googles and risky clicks only to end up empty handed. While I could have just streamed it and called it a day, I'm super obsessive of getting my listens scrobbled and that requires the album playing through a music client. Went to said site and realized they took off the free download button.
I discovered they dropped a majority of their shit for free, so I downloaded it all until I got to one album: "F.A.N.G." It released in 2013, and was a free download on this site's Bandcamp. Listened to their stuff, loved it, and went digging for their discography. I recently found this group, Sweet Valley.
I can give my anecdote about the impossibility of finding an album.
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