Neil Young has had enough of Amazon.
The classic rocker has announced that he’ll be pulling his music from the massive online retailer, and is calling for a boycott of the Jeff Bezos-founded company.
“FORGET AMAZON AND WHOLE FOODS. FORGET FACEBOOK. “BUY LOCAL. BUY DIRECT,” reads his post on the Neil Young Archives website. “BEZOS SUPPORTS THIS GOVERNMENT. IT DOES NOT SUPPORT YOU OR ME.”
Young’s message continues:
“The time is here.
FORGET AMAZON.
Soon my music will not be there. It is easy to buy local. Support your community.
Go to the local store.
Don’t go back to the big corporations who have sold out America.
We all have to give up something to save America from the Corporate Control Age it is entering.
They need you to buy from them.
Don’t.
They shut down our government
your income
your safety
your family’s health security.
Take America Back
together, stop buying from the
big corporations
support local business.
Do the right thing. Show who you are.”
It has yet to be revealed if Young is just pulling his music from the Amazon Music streaming platform, or if he’ll be removing his physical products from the store as well.
Of course, this isn’t the first time Young has pulled his music from a platform. It was back in 2022 when he demanded that his music be removed from Spotify over misinformation about vaccines spread on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. Just last year, he announced his unenthusiastic return to the streaming platform after Rogan’s podcast was no longer exclusive to Spotify.
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In regard to Facebook, it was in August of this year when Young ceased all activities on his official Facebook page in response to a Reuters report revealing that Meta’s AI chatbots have been permitted to have “romantic or sensual” conversations with minors.
His rage against the current administration was on full display last month with the official release of the new song, “Big Crime,” which calls out Donald Trump for (among other things) “fascist crimes,” adding the declaration, “Don’t want soldiers on our streets.”