{"id":5852,"date":"2025-10-11T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T01:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/neil-young-remove-music-amazon-slams-jeff-bezos\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T01:00:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T01:00:01","slug":"neil-young-remove-music-amazon-slams-jeff-bezos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/neil-young-remove-music-amazon-slams-jeff-bezos\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Young Says He\u2019s Pulling His Music From Amazon: \u2018Bezos Supports This Government\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tNeil Young<\/a> is pulling his music from Amazon, the legendary singer-songwriter revealed in a blog post<\/a> published on his personal website on Wednesday (Oct. 8).<\/p>\n

\n\tIn an apparent protest against the Trump administration, Young wrote, \u201cThe time is here. FORGET AMAZON,\u201d under a header that includes the words, \u201cBEZOS SUPPORTS THIS GOVERNMENT,\u201d a reference to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cSoon my music will not be there,\u201d Young continued of Amazon. \u201cIt is easy to buy local. Support your community. Go to the local store. Don\u2019t go back to the big corporations who have sold out America.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe revelation came in a post that included a larger call by Young for people to discontinue shopping at Amazon and the upscale grocery chain Whole Foods, which the online retail giant acquired in 2017. He also seemed to call for a boycott of Facebook, writing \u201cFORGET FACEBOOK\u201d under a logo of the social media platform\u2019s parent company, Meta. In August, Young left Facebook<\/a> after a Reuters<\/em> report claimed Meta had allowed AI chatbots to communicate with minors using \u201cromantic or sensual\u201d language.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe all have to give up something to save America from the Corporate Control Age<\/em> it is entering,\u201d Young continued. \u201cThey need you to buy from them. Don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tNeil Young Drops Trump-Dissing, Anti-Authoritarian Single \u2018Big Crime\u2019: \u2018Got To Get the Fascists\u00a0Out\u2019\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n

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\n\tThe singer also referenced the current shutdown of the U.S. government, writing, \u201cThey shut down our government your income your safety your family\u2019s health security. Take America Back together, stop buying from the big corporations support local business. Do the right thing. Show who you are.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tYoung has been openly critical of President Trump over the years. Last month, he released the song \u201cBig Crime\u201d<\/a> with his band Chrome Hearts that railed against recent actions by the president \u2014 who is never mentioned by name \u2014 with lyrics like, \u201cNo more money to the fascists\/ The billionaire fascists\/ Time to blackout the system\/ No more great again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tYoung\u2019s music remained available on Amazon Music at the time of publishing. Representatives for Amazon Music and Young\u2019s label, Warner Music\/Reprise, did not immediately return requests for comment.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThis isn\u2019t the first time Young has boycotted a digital music provider. In January 2022, the star pulled his catalog from Spotify<\/a> over its lucrative deal with Joe Rogan<\/a>, through which it retained exclusive rights to, but not ownership of, the host\u2019s wildly popular Joe Rogan Experience<\/em> podcast. In a post on his website at the time, Young accused Rogan of spreading \u201cmisinformation\u201d about the COVID vaccine on the podcast. \u201cThey can have Rogan or Young. Not both,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

\n\tYoung\u2019s stance inspired several other artists to remove their catalogs from the service, including Joni Mitchell<\/a> and Young\u2019s Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young<\/a> bandmates David Crosby<\/a>, Graham Nash<\/a> and Stephen Stills<\/a>. Young restored his music<\/a> to the streaming giant in March 2024 following the expiration of its exclusive deal with Rogan. The previous September, Billboard <\/em>estimated that Young\u2019s decision to remove his catalog from Spotify cost him roughly $300,000<\/a> in lost recorded music and publishing royalties up to that point.<\/p>\n

\n\tMore recently, artists including Massive Attack<\/a>, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard<\/a>, Deerhoof and Sylvan Esso<\/a> have pulled their catalogs from Spotify over founder Daniel Ek<\/strong>\u2018s reported $1 billion investment into defense company Helsing, which sells AI software to inform military decisions.<\/p>\n

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